Timeline of independent radio in the United Kingdom

This is a timeline of the development of independent radio in the UK. == 1960s == 1969 30 April – University Radio York (URY) starts broadcasting and becomes the first licensed independent radio station in the UK. == 1970s == 1970 Until the 1970 United Kingdom general election, despite the popularity of Radio Luxembourg and, for a period in the mid-1960s, the off-shore "pirate" broadcasters, it had remained the policy of both major political parties that radio was to remain under the BBC. Upon the election of Edward Heath's government this policy changed. The new Minister of Post and Telecommunications and former ITN newscaster, Christopher Chataway, announces a bill to allow for the introduction of commercial radio in the United Kingdom.

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