17 March – Solid Gold Sixty is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 for the final time. It is replaced the following week by a one-hour programme which just features the top 20.
22 November – The first regular programme in the UK for the black community, Black Londoners, launches on BBC Radio London, presented by Alex Pascall.[4] The programme is initially launched as a trial run of six programmes before becoming a weekly, and from 1978, a weeknight, fixture in the schedules.
^Scafe, Suzanne (2002). "Black Londoners". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 46. ISBN9781134700257.