The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events Fall: St. Louis radio station KSHE flips from female-oriented rock to progressive rock, becoming the first progressive rock radio station in the US. 14 August: The British Marine 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 Britain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline. 30 September: Radio Ceylon becomes the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation. 31 October: WNEW-FM in New York City adopts a progressive rock format, the first station to do so in the Metromedia chain. 7 November: The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 leads to the start of National Public Radio in the United States. Debuts 22 January: first day of broadcasting of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). The network paired with American Public Media in 2004 and is now the second largest producer of public radio programming in the United States, following National Public Radio. c. 1 April: CKLW in Windsor, Ontario adopts Bill Drake's Boss Radio top-40 format, eventually taking on the name "The Big 8" by the end of the year and soon becoming one of the most influential radio stations in North America. 30 June: WCPR (AM) 1450 went on the air in Coamo, Puerto Rico. June 27: KNEI 1140 went on the air in Waukon, Iowa. 28 August: WCBS begins all-news programming on its FM sister station, necessitated by a plane crash that destroyed WCBS (AM) and WNBC (AM)'s shared broadcast tower. The station still carries Arthur Godfrey's mid-morning program, and music programming during the overnight hours. 17 September: First broadcast of The World This Weekend. 30 September: The BBC scraps its outmoded Home Service and replaces it with the all-speech BBC Radio 4. The Light Programme is divided between a new national pop station Radio 1, modeled on the successful pirate station Radio London, and BBC Radio 2. The Third Programme is renamed Radio 3. 19 September: WPJX 1660 went on the air as WZBN in Zion, Illinois. 2 October: A one of popular radio program of Japan, All Night Nippon debut on Nippon Broadcasting System, first section started on Kanto region, later, this program listen area in nationwide Japan. 8 November: BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester. 15 November: KPQ-FM 102.1 went