on the air in Wenatchee, Washington. 22 December: Radio comedy panel game Just a Minute chaired by Nicholas Parsons first transmitted on BBC Radio 4; Parsons continues to chair the show until shortly before his death in 2020. Undated 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 13 October: House Party ends its run on network radio (CBS). 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 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 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 1 June – Derek McCulloch, 69, BBC Radio presenter and producer 3 February – Martin Block, 66, American radio disc jockey considered the world's first as host of Make Believe Ballroom Lam Bun, 37, radio commentator in Commercial Radio Hong Kong, victim in the Hong Kong 1967 riots Douglas Ritchie (born 1905), British radio news editor and wartime propaganda broadcaster References Radio by year