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The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

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Fall - St. Louis radio station KSHE flips from female-oriented rock to progressive rock, becoming one of the first progressive rock radio stations in the US.
August 14 - The British Marine Broadcasting Offences Act was 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.
September 30 - Radio Ceylon becomes the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation.
November 7 - The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 leads to the start of National Public Radio in the United States.

January 22 - first day of broadcasting of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). The network paired with American Public Media in 2004 and is now the second largest producer of public radio programming in the United States, following National Public Radio.
c. April 1 - CKLW in Windsor, Ontario adopts Bill Drake's Boss Radio top-40 format, eventually taking on the name "The Big 8" by the end of the year and soon becoming one of the most influential radio stations in North America.
August 28 - WCBS begins all-news programming.
September 17: First broadcast of The World This Weekend.
September 30: 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 unchanged.)
November 8 - BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.
University Radio York becomes Britain's first student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.
3AW becomes Australia's first talkback radio station.

7 January - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and radio and television presenter
March 1 - Jakki Brambles, English television and radio presenter and reporter
March 28 - John Ziegler, radio talk show host on KFI in Los Angeles, California
June 9 - Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster, writer, and musician
August 6 - Mike Greenberg, television and radio host for ESPN
October 11 - Artie Lange, American television and film actor, stand-up comic and radio personality
November 13 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, writer, radio and television talk show host, game show host, and television producer
date unknown - Jamie Owen, Welsh radio and television presenter
date unknown - Tony Schibeci, Australian radio presenter and voice-over announcer
date unknown - Burnie Thompson, libertarian-minded American radio talk-show host in Bay County, Florida.

1 June - Derek McCulloch, 69, BBC Radio presenter and producer
Martin Block, 66, considered the world's first radio disc jockey as host of Make Believe Ballroom
Lam Bun, 37, radio commentator in Commercial Radio Hong Kong, victim in the Hong Kong 1967 riots

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