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

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Debuts

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Undated
  • KMAQ of Maquoketa, Iowa adds an FM frequency, which signs on the air at 95.3 FM and allows the station to broadcast local and sporting events after sunset. (The AM frequency was daytime only.) The station moves several years later to 95.1 FM.
  • 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.

Closings

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  • 13 October: House Party ends its run on network radio (CBS).[1]
  • 31 December: ABC Radio ceases operations as one network; it would be divided into four specialized networks (Information, Entertainment, Direction and Contemporary) on New Year's Day 1968. This is due to some of ABC's owned-and-operated stations (WABC, WLS, WXYZ, KQV) airing Top 40 formats that directly conflicted with ABC Radio's long-form, entertainment programming, in addition for ABC's desire to gain more than one affiliate in a market. The Breakfast Club and Paul Harvey would transfer to the American Entertainment Network, extended news blocks would move to the American Information Network, and the aforementioned ABC O&Os became affiliates of the American Contemporary Network.

Births

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  • 7 January – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and radio and television presenter
  • 1 March – Jakki Brambles, English television and radio presenter and reporter
  • 28 March – John Ziegler, radio talk show host on KFI in Los Angeles
  • 27 April – Jason Whitlock, American sports personality
  • 9 June – Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster, writer, and musician
  • 1 July – Kim Komando, American radio host, America's Digital Goddess
  • 6 August – Mike Greenberg, television and radio host for ESPN
  • 11 October – Artie Lange, American television and film actor, stand-up comic and radio personality
  • 14 October – Stephen A. Smith, American sports radio host.
  • 13 November – 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

Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  2. ^ Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.