24 January – WBZY 990 AM in Torrington, CT signs off for the last time.
27 March – The
BBC's Children's Hour (renamed For the Young since April 1961) is broadcast for the last time.
28 March –
Radio Caroline, a
pirate radio station based on a ship anchored in international waters off the English coast, opens as Europe's first all-day English-language pop music station.[2]
29 June –
Manx Radio, the national commercial radio station for the
Isle of Man, begins broadcasting.
1 July
In Sweden
Sveriges Radio launches its third national channel – P3 – as an alternative to commercial pirate radio.
^Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press.
ISBN978-0-19-507678-3.
^Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
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