August 14: The BritishMarine Broadcasting Offences Act was passed, making it an offence to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This resulted in the closure of all of Biritain's offshore Pirate Radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline .
September 30: The BBC introduced its national pop station Radio 1 , modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London . The old BBC Light, Third and Home channels became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively.
September 30: Radio Ceylon becomes the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation.
