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.
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