1967 in British radio

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This is a list of events in British radio during 1967.

Events

14 August - The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act is passed, making it an offense to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This resulted in the closure of all of Britain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline.
17 September - First broadcast of The World This Weekend.
30 September - The BBC scraps its outmoded "Home Service" and replaces it with its national pop station Radio 1, modeled on the successful pirate station Radio London. The old BBC Light Programme becomes BBC Radio 2, and the all-news radio BBC Radio 4 is launched. The Third Programme is renamed BBC Radio 3.
8 November - BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.
Unknown - University Radio York becomes the United Kingdom's first student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.