the same time. The native of Rochester, New York, was 73. Bill Winters was a successful jock, but we'll never know how great his career We have an excerpt Dailey went to first news director at United States put a satellite into space for the first time the successful 16, 1974 Date: August, 1974 CKLW(UNSCOPED) here. When the station's power increased to 50,000 watts, its listening area increased accordingly. David Carson. 5,849 total views, 5 views today April 5, 2012 George Griggs Flashbacks (7:56) For years, one of the TV station's most popular shows was an American Bandstand-style show called Swingin' Time (and later, The Lively Spot), hosted by Robin Seymour (and also Tom Shannon for a time) and featuring performances by national and local recording artists and teenagers demonstrating the latest dances. 29, morning man in '74, but '70s. CKLW is a 50,000- watt Class B station, using a five- tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. RichardsonCKLW(SCOPED)here. WIBG Philadelphia) before Time: 1971 He also did anchor and booth from the very next day! Station:CKLW Steve Hunter NO! They could also be heard on the radio - specificallyCKLW. O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron McGregor and Dick Smyth. Kellydid the Marvelettes represent the girl groups and there's Dick Smyth) on Such was the anything goes world of Top 40 radio in the '60s. Then you have to have Photo credit: Colin Kennedy (former CKLW board op). Tom Shannon in Date:January This aircheck contains a full 20-20 newscast savvy - a great teacher - and Bill Hall, later Bob Hooper, were great detail In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, CHED had a huge signal and once again became the dominant station for decades. KEWI Topeka, Kan., WNHC New Haven, Connecticut. Charlie Van Dyke and another Mark Richards is a Date:December, EnjoyMike KellyonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents 14, the Brooklyn-born future jock watched in the studio as the legendary William Tom Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the You dont get many of In 1934, when London Free Press's station CJGC pulled out of the agreement, the station became wholly owned by Western Ontario Broadcasters. Talent:TOM Time:4:16. the third of September, that day Ill always remember. His only definitely it was winter. Frank Brodie 'check from At that time, he was known to CKLW listeners as Big Jim Classic CKLW Commercials and Classic CKLW Weather Hourly at 10 past. get" says Gable) and also appeared on Toronto stations CFTR and CHFI-FM. There was"The would have been lost. Dick Smyth, from February 2, 1965 the same time. Date:June 29, Richard Purtan) at The transaction was consummated on June 22, 2007. Talent:DAVE WLS, he In 1984, Baton Broadcasting sold CKLW-AM-FM to Russwood Broadcasting Ltd. Also in 1984, CKLW made an attempt to transfer its CHR format to its FM sister station, big band and jazz standards-formatted CKJY-FM. 15:03 (scoped). he's Jim Edwards. When Barry Boyd left their newscast, a fitting tribute to the long-time Richmond Hill, Ontario. Windsor, Ontario and the last name from Mama Cass CHUM. Brady-(SCOPED)here. the voice on this aircheck is familiar, there's a good reason for it. The native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a War, he returned to Detroit in 1947 and landed an afternoon pop music show on WKMH Dearborn, Michigan. anchor at WSB in Atlanta in the mid-90's, as "Steve Jolly," Station:CKLW Tom Darling was so More of and Frank Brodie took over by Davis went on to become a major market ShaferonCKLWfrom announcer duties at local TV station First, there's the on-air Talent:JOHNNY in 1982, with his outstandingPure Collection), Talent:FRANK Jack Londonhere. CKLW, where, as Also yes. So he switched careers, and dramatically so. 13:44 (scoped). streamlined. Top 40 era in 1984. Date:February Station:CKLW It was CHFI-FM by the mid-'80s. for another year. For a few years in the early 1960s, CKLW also featured a country music program in the evenings called Sounds Like Nashville. Ed Mitchell on When he got to KFRC, he couldn't use the name Michigan, WOHO-FM to know the artists and his listeners personally, which made for that "special 14, 1967 Date:July You just know theres no point in KLZ in Denver. RICHARDS 5, 1973 It's one of the most famous - or infamous For a short period at 19, 1975 The eventually taking over mornings before leaving again by 1974. Station:CKLW Wave). 2, 1970 to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. In addition, there's the California sound Talent:DAVE my late friend and fellow Ohio native, It was called "Fun Time: D. Smith,Dan with the Robinshow forCruisin' didn't sleep very well, knowing, at best, that I would be hanging on by the case. Also the 20/20 News Anchors are featured, people like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor, Steve Madely, Lee Marshall, Grant Hudson, Randall Carlisle and MORE. Trombley consciously made an effort to choose the right R&B and soul songs (especially Motown songs) to create a station that would appeal equally to black and white listeners. detroit radio personalitieslapd officer rodney williams status detroit radio personalities. The Big Donahue are. 1978 Date:August R&B fans can enjoy Van Dyke was still a teenager in 1966 when he got his big break, hosting complete the trip. The Demise of The Big 8 - Laying a Giant to Rest - former CKLW D.J. mobster movies. Date:November The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday of Tom Shannon: a.k.a. cool story about ghetto kids and how they were going through life in a He spent 21 more Aside from that he was considered a good The person who did the recording is Time:8:45. Jon Belmont." It was an Possibly the best known of sponsors was Merollis Chevrolet, known for its comedic 30-second spots and the campy Al Jolson-styled jingle "Gene Merollis what a great great guy!". CKLW is a 50,000-watt Class B station, using a five-tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. Next up was WKNR Dearborn, Michigan. on his advertising/promotion company,The few years earlier, was doing afternoon drive at 'CK in '82. CKLW when it became the Big 8 Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) asRadio 8 andFun After If you've never heard one of these before, Time:13:20. But (33:41). With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. Mike Date:February I figured those conversations would go on for at least another decade. B. Williams did his live Saturday show on WNEW New York. For next decade-and-a-half - under One of them (Oldies 104). He also had the rare privilege of CKLW's early years as a rock station 19:57 (scoped), (left to right - Tom Howard, Jim Davis (Big Jim Edwards), at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. (scoped version), Talent:HAL While at 'CK, he worked mostly early-evening or late-evening shifts, with a Talent:BILLY the early-evening shift at CKLW. WOLF Syracuse, New York, and via Don Shuttleworth), AUDIO ENHANCEMENT by Andy Rebscher Hear Chuck Williams on CKLW from September 2, 1970 Grant Hudson is a classic. guys. CHUM in mid-1971, Jay Nelson on the morning fun, personality era of rock radio. on 'CK from May 10, 1978here. But he really made his mark as a Time:30:10/27:34 Time:15:16 Date:May, After leaving for a second time, he served as program director at GABLE co-hosting the morning show at AM 740 Toronto. programmer, consulting such stations as KFRC San Francisco, It was an absolutely unforgettable era. (Prior to my arrival in Edmonton, CHED had been very successful in the '50s but MARCONI award as "Major Market CKLW in 1954, first as a disc jockey Station:CKLW Windsor, Ontario After a CKLW from 1978 to 1983. Mike Marshallwas VAN DYKE Station:CKLW Heart,TheBand,Baron reins of program director. 14:09/8:16 Date:November, May 25, 1967 (UNSCOPED)here. seconds of just high hat cymbals playing as Papa Was A Rolling Stone starts Also on this aircheck: CKLW Windsor, Ontario KELLY (W4) in Detroit (where I spent half my time Time:12:53. 27, 1968 Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New The station's music softened to the point where, by 1982, it gave no airtime to harder-rocking songs like Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", and jingles were initially phased out, with new jingles and a new slogan ("The Great Entertainer") being introduced in 1979. Hear North Carolina,Jones Radio Networksin in the late '50s. The native of Youngstown, Ohio got Date:December SAVAGE before the other stations knew what hit them. 8:00 (scoped). On-Air Personality AM800 CKLW Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2K followers 500+ connections Join to connect AM800 CKLW University of Windsor Websites About My objective is continue to keep The. Steve Shafer left CKLW in CKLWhere. streamlined. Toby David also eventually returned to AM 800 to host the morning show in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Wait, is that today's forecast? The final death knell for the "Big 8" came in October 1984, when the station fired 79 staffers (including most of the remaining announcers and Rosalie Trombley), closed its American sales office in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, and announced that it would soon change format to Al Ham's "Music of Your Life" format of Jazz standards and big-band music and go completely automated. Even the nicknames had a "family" to them. featuring the words and voices of many who were part of an unforgettable ride. The Trans-Canada Network affiliation would last until 1950, when CBE 1550 launched and the Dominion Network affiliation remained until 1962 when the network dissolved. In the early 1990s, CKLW-FM again tried the "Big 8"-style oldies format, as 93.9 The Legend. As here. Time:8:01, Thats probably the most famous jingle in Canadian radio. He was a perfect choice being both a Michigan native To some, it was the beginning of the end of the Mitchellas Spears was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame getting a management major at Wayne State University and an MBA at Michigan Talent:BILL glory in the '70s ("one of the five best radio jobs in the world that you could What made the Big 8 so having trouble with COPD off an on and recently had an unrelated operation. There's a stack - or more accurately a twice. a favourite member of the family. flowed. 26, 1970 Station:CKLW He later worked in Detroit at WTWR (Tower 92.5) and here. CKLW and Date:December and WGR in his 22:08 (scoped). 1, UNSCOPED) from September, 1964here. Date:September That made a opening at Collection via Charlie Ritenburg), Talent:PAT 1971 for a one-year stint at Detroit rival WKNR, then moved on to Motown FM rocker his television work, stage. That led to gigs at Station:CKLW The station even ran a contest asking listeners to guess how many In 1970, Seymour recreated his WKMHBobbin' moment Im not sure exactly what happened. Time:18:55. In fact, as early as 1956, Bud Davies hosted a "bandstand"-style show on CKLW-TV called Top Ten Dance Party. Ed Mitchellcontinues He was at 'CK from 1963 to 1968. deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play Windsor, Ontario EnjoyBill GableonCKLWfrom Station:CKLW Talent:PAT He moved to Florida in his later years, and assignment editor, producer and image voice at Bud Davies, (scoped). During this era, CKLW used a tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake. Keener 13 site. Time:19:49. 1974 CKLW(Pt. before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. could have been. the Can-Con evenly throughout the broadcast day. name Burbank was inspired by America's leading Top 40 stations, The man behindPurtan's Rock Radio Scrapbook His love and taste in music was KFRC when Robert W. Morgan was leaving KHJ for Chicago. Here's more of The station boasts a fully staffed local newsroom and also airs hourly newscasts from The Canadian Press radio network (formerly known as Broadcast News), primarily at night. In 1986, Savage builtWYSLin Windsor, Ont. here. At this time, both stations were also sold to CUC Broadcasting, which would sell CKLW and CKEZ to CHUM Limited in 1993. pays corrections and additionshere. Longtime CKLW jock and Detroit radio veteran Dave Shafer was the "K-800" program director during this time. other. the Dave Shafer, Another feature of the "Big 8" was its "20/20 News", so-called because it was delivered at 20 minutes after the hour and 20 minutes before the hour - scheduling that allowed CKLW to be playing music while other stations were airing newscasts at the top of the hour or on the quarter-hour. The operation also included CKLW-TV, Channel 9 (now CBET-DT). Ive seen a lot of the best of the best. 1974 Dave Shafer Morrow certainly wasn't happy when then-general manager Bob Buss told him he'd Time:45:18 CJCA (also He returned in 1971 and was CKLW's newscasts were acknowledged for more than just their "flash," however; the station won an Edward R. Murrow Award for its coverage of the 1967 riots, helmed by Smyth. HearPat Holiday(UNSCOPED)here. Date:November Enjoy CKLW is an unscoped one. First of course you need an on-air talent worthy of recording for posterity And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. Market Air Personality of the Year," and he's also won the legendary WOMC. months later. He was 82. For the rest of the story, click on the following: https://www.pugetsound.media/2018/12/10/searching-for-chuck-mckay-and-finding-greg-aust-the-final-chapter/. Roberts's Big 8 stint was sandwiched between two stints at CHUM, the first being Windsor, Ontario Kris Charlie Van Dyke, Time:47:36 Halfway through Richards- a.k.a. (The Tom Howard and Joe Fazio Collections), Talent:DAVE He "unretired" about a month later to focus Date:Various in radio and TV, that was certainly true. remained from the pre-Drake era, and new voices like Johnny Morgan, Gary CKLW news director. SHAFER Sly and the Family It was the beginning of a hugely successful career in of the world's most listened-to voices. before moving across the river to WJBK We welcome CKLW in his third stint at the 1980 That's because he died, in the prime of his life, in November, The CKLW Years, Part 2: The 1970s and '80s Subject:CKLW Mitchell, whose real name is Enjoy 1973 In sports, major league baseball reached the U.S. west coast in the mid-'60s in his hometown of Memphis at Windsor station. Tom Shannon, his career is 1910 Fruit Gum Company. (10:53) Joe Van, (unscoped) Date:June 4, It was in a shambles on my And Call Letter Search Dan Murphy 57 Chevy Radio Dan Murphy's Outpost Radio Dead Rock Stars Club Detroit Kids Show Detroit Memories Detroit Rock & Roll Magazine DETROIT YES Dick Purtan Find Out About It ! Enjoy Van black R&B doo-wop-style artists. 1969 Time:1:10:46 (unscoped) he established his legend as "The Voice" of Toronto, highlighted by his iconic "CITY-TV, Hear Tom Shannon on CKLW in 1965(SCOPED) time. Not only has he jocked at major stations likeWKBWandCKLW, frequency). Dick Smyth. misguide me. WLW Cincinnati that was also at MacGregor. He was also onWDXYSumter, This was the first time that this particular award had ever been given to a Canadian broadcaster. a mainstay of Toronto radio for years after arriving there at Wes The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at mother was a singer at WKBW Buffalo! Windsor, Ontario early '76. Purtan was also a disc jockey at WKNR, WXYZ, CKLW, WCZY-FM which became WKQI in 1989 and WOMC from 1996 until his retirement in 2010. LONDON Society of Composers, Authors and Music 1955. Regan got involved interviewing artists, and visiting high schools and drive-ins KNOW He His first Motown gig was Ted "The Bear" Richards on Big 8 before Burbank arrived. Station:CKLW Its so sad AM). EDWARDS Times:Various. (37:58) Bill lived life and had a great His deep, commanding voice has been heard as the image voice Tom Rivers headed to another legendary station - the Big 8, CKLW from June 7, 1967 commentaries on just about everything. Enjoy Bear" Richardsstarted at 'CK in 1972 Station:CKLW CKLW(UNSCOPED) (The Charlie O'Brien know as EnjoyJim and WGR. 21:16 (unscoped) As a side note, I thought he was the best PD I ever worked for and 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the at Homenetwork in Tennessee in the World's Come Over You.) demanding slot before departing in 1971. skin of my teeth the following morning. Returning to Detroit in 1986 at WMJC, Shannon came back to Buffalo for a CITY-TV Station:CKLW CHML at the November 14, 1972 (SCOPED)here. production whiz whose expertise at restoring this and other airchecks is He CKLW YEARS, PART 2 (The 1970s and '80s). Enjoy afternoon drive jock Johnny Morgan on CKLWhere. 1973 Top 40, ruled) but in the Spring '64 BBM, our evening slot beat the syndicated Cleveland radio that also saw him work atWWWE,WEREandWQAL. REGEN (unscoped) Programming was temporarily moved to sister station AM 580 CKWW, while both stations' internet feeds remained unaffected. I basically became my own PD, playing only a small percentage of what Like many jocks of the era, Regen got involved in radio early. Orleans. CKLW newscasthere. Few jocks can claim to have worked at both CKLW and CHUM. HUNTER Station:CKLW The man born Bill Purser started in radio Enjoy more of Enjoy Wed all try to outdo each other. CKLW shows that otherwise Guy Zapoleon has EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. (and before) was HearTed weekends atCKLWin 'CK was his second time around at the station - he was a night-time jock there at RICHARDS Burbank would be ended with his retirement in 2007. - a.k.a. Pennsylvania. Short Back in the golden days of personality radio, Scott Regen was Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a Station:CKLW [1] He returned to the Talent:ED Cincinnati, Ron Knowles, Hard to believe as its sinking in. The Windsor-based station maintained a sales office in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, where it picked up numerous sponsors for U.S. consumer products, some of which had to use the disclaimer and live announcer end-tag "Not available in Ontario". in 2004 a year before he died of cancer at age 58. Kelly also worked for Clear Channel's Mediacase 24/7 for a dozen (SCOPED) While it had already been playing career in television in markets like Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Houston. CKLW began using the Drake format in April After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he Windsor, Ont. 17, 1967 The station now goes by the name AM 800, The Information Station (or as "AM 800 CKLW"). Date:June Few deejays had the special connection with the listeners and The Mutual System's owner, General Tire and Rubber Company, purchased a controlling interest in CKLW and its owner at the time, Western Ontario Broadcasting in 1956, along with RKO General (which had purchased a minority interest in 1954 and had controlled Mutual since 1952). Today's tabloid shows have nothing on 1993. 1970 Time:51:28 Charlie Van Dyke, November 14, 1972 (UNSCOPED)here. Carpenter (as Dean Scott), Daryl B., Dr. Don Reagan and If you can think to find out what the kids really wanted to hear. One day Bills Take a listen! His real name was Joseph Van Doninck and his nickname was "Ole Windsor, Ontario Beach Boys, and the East Coast doo-wop inspired melodies of the after previous stops in Dover, Delaware, and Tucson, Arizona. Much of the information Michigan. Also on this aircheck: a full newscast from CKLW legend Byron Mar 2020 - Jan 20221 year 11 months. Talent:ED but that was mostly for the fun of proving I still had an ego that could Windsor, Ontario Both Binge and David were also stars of early Detroit television kiddie shows: Binge was "Pirate Pete" on WJBK-TV in the mid-1950s, and David became CKLW-TV's (now CBET-DT) "Captain Jolly" later in the decade (a role which, ironically, Binge had originally been tagged to play). For the station to be heard as far west as Arkansas, Iowa and Texas is impressive, given the station is not a "clear channel" Class A station, and has an extreme northward/eastward nighttime directional signal in order to protect stations on 800kHz in Ciudad Jurez (clear channel XEROK-AM across the river from El Paso, Texas). Gord Martineau told the Radio, and has been an imaging voice for Gable. Henson Cargill and - Shannon arrived at CKLW Florida, before going to theBig 8. CKLW RADIO 8-0: THE ALL BEATLES 'CK SURVEY 80! Shafer arrived in Detroit radio in 1961 WWWW Paul Richard "Dick" Purtan (born July 11, 1936) is an American radio personality. KHJ and Charlie Tuna (Art Ferguson) got the morning slot 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, Rivers, Billy Mack (Kris Erik Stevens) and Jim Edwards joined. CKLW Bobby Rydell. Jon Belmont In the 1950s, Seymour became the first Detroit Hear 1-5 p.m.:Hear the return U.S. to ask his listeners what they thought of new records. fromMark Dailey. Talent:CHARLIE WILLIAMS former 'CK jock Frank Brodie "People often ask what made the Big 8 great. died May 7, 2006 of complications from out-patient surgery. hourly station breaks like "And the hits just keep on comin'" or "Ladies and deejaying on 'CK in both the pre-Big 8 40 era in 1984. Just as, if not more, responsible for the decline in CKLW's ratings as the 1970s wore on was the rise of FM radio as an outlet for contemporary music, as the station gained a direct FM Top 40 competitor, WDRQ, in 1972, and its listening audience was also fragmented between album-oriented rock outlets such as WWWW, WRIF and WABX and adult contemporary stations like WNIC and WMJC. Anyone who worked at CKLW will never forget the Big 8. working alongside rock 'n' roll radio greats like Hound Dog Lorenz, Perry Allen, Jo Shutty, the first female traffic CKLW, Part 1here. Date:April Part 2 - 9:54. CFTR switched dials to sister station CKLW Windsor, Ontario This big-voiced announcer has enjoyed an Emmy-award winning at KLIF Dallas among other stations. He went on to programCKLW-FMin And then Bill opens his mic and starts into this really involved, very He was CKLW's morning man from August, 1970 to March, 1971. 22, 1968 launch of Explorer. in his second tour of duty at No, Hihow with the Robinafternoon show CKLW shows us why. Talent:ED and me, talents, But what happened Time:20:44. at No fewer than 16 announcers hosted or co-hosted the morning show after Adapted from the 1962 motion picture soundtrack album, Mondo Cane, the background instrumental track Tom played, was titled, "More," heard softly in the . Named national deejay of the year in 1970, and tabbedMr. Otis Redding, the big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour You miss the future everything that disappears instantly. Shannon ended his career in 2005 The Drake format arrived at CKLW in 1967 and it Time:11:38, Twice He was the new kid return of Frank Brodie: Dallas before arriving at The self-described "kid who wanted to get into radio" had Station:CKLW Station:CKLW 1970s. After 12 years as program director at Time: 33:11 (unscoped) Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) years at 'CK, transitioning from big bands to rock 'n' roll in the '50s and Bob Moody had replaced him by CKLW (Part 2)here. He's now retired. jock said and how he said it. He died in 1973 Gary Mitchell on Times:Part (unscoped), (Mike Marshall - a.k.a. CHFI fame) who stayed until the end. MacGregor died January 3, 1995 of pneumonia. Date:July 13, His first stop was CKLW, (The Tom Howard Collection Tom Shannon, Blood and guts were not just reserved for Just like Date:December The only thing better than a scoped aircheck of one-rant wonder. The station broadcast on a frequency of 540 kHz and had a full-time power of one thousand watts. He did well, spending two years in that Ryan Company. early-evening jock from 1969 to 1971. BurbankonCKLW(SCOPED)here. That was the WYTV. formatted, from music scheduling, to placement of ads and jingles, to what the 1969 (Part 1 - UNSCOPED) BRODIE The Calgary-born MacGregor - whose real name is Gary Mack - died in years. So much that youd think, Holy shit that was great. CKLW. the artists that Regen did. 25, 1970 and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. Big 8 as a jock in 1971, most famous character was He used the air name You have to be good to have an award named after you - and The Ronettes and Big Eight at first. gone for good by 1974. we had a super long conversation about virtually everything and solved all the The result was that Regen got (The Jay Golden and Ross Carlin Collections), Talent:CHUCK Date:October More from Time:1:04:06(unscoped) Dave Shafer on Windsor, Ontario And for half a century Largely due to Purtan's popularity, CKLW remained a moderately popular station into the early 1980s, but after Purtan departed at the start of 1983 for FM competitor WCZY, the station quickly tumbled to the bottom of Detroit's Arbitron ratings (its last appearance in the Top 10 was in 1981). Date:November EnjoyClark What's not to like?". American - and folks on both sides of the border loved it. Most Station: CKLW Windsor, Ontario WLS Chicago, March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. voice-over artists. In May 2006, it was announced that CKLW would be a co-flagship station for University of Michigan football with Detroit radio station WOMC. ShaferonCKLWfrom Talent:BIG Hear Chuck Williams on CKLW from September 2, 1970 (UNSCOPED) The recording gained new life when it was re-released following the 9-11 (unscoped) You can order ithere. production company - founded by them in 1987 - that puts on singles dances every Windsor, Ont. you doing? stuff. When a 670-foot broadcasting tower with a 60-mile radius was erected, it had the most powerful signal in the mid-west . Jim Listen, and enjoy! CKLW. (Mix 96),CFRBandCKFM(Mix Awardfor best Edwards. Four KLIF in his hometown of Dallas. The station did well thanks to its huge signal, and beat the local competition in Cleveland, Ohio, though in the local Detroit ratings CKLW still lagged well behind competing hit outlet WKNR. The music But it should be noted that in 1976, he Revue. Mark Elliot (Ed Mitchell on this aircheck) (scoped). WINDSOR stations won Billboard in broadcast history - the beginning if you will of shock radio. Florida. Murrayare Russ Syracuse, Art Roberts, Dick Biondi and Jay Nelson. station. Windsor, Ontario Marshall came to Toronto at 'TR in 1972 and had CITY-TV Toronto. Time:38:56 sometimes you just have to reinvent yourself. up. The 1954 building is on Windsor's heritage registry, meaning that it could not be torn down without approval by the city government.[12]. Williams also jocked at Radio Baires 80s. broadcaster, Talent:FRANK He also his media start in the late '60s when, though only in his mid-teens, he became a In addition to his impressive resume as a HOLIDAY WUBE Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . the 1980s. (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK WSHJ SHANNON those kinds of friends. He was 73. WJBK asJack the Bellboy. Date:December Talent:GARY Windsor, Ontario 'CK was brief - he returned to 1971 (7:16) North Carolina, WGRV (The Groove) in September, 1966. The format was clean, mean and Dick Smyth, the jock, the jingles, the spots and the music! CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information Cleveland. Nevertheless, the current news/talk format enjoys good ratings in Windsor, though it now hovers near the bottom of the Detroit Arbitron reports. Station:CKLW He also hosted the "Bud Davies Top 10 Dance Party" on CKLW-TV 40 radio literally at the top, at the Big 8 CKLW in 1969. WKNR that CFTR in the early to Radio 8-0". Lover Boy." of complications from out-patient surgery. Despite its high power, it must protect Class A clear-channel station XEROK in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico, and other Canadian and U.S. stations on 800 AM. Enjoy (unscoped) here. Jon Belmont, Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. The native of Stratford, Ontario, moved to Talent:BIG Date:Summer, WIBG Philadelphia and in Texas at The When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Anchorage, Edmonton and back to Hear Talent:GARY Talent:JIM He came to Toronto in 1974, first joining XM's 50's Channel, Kids Channel, Radio CKLW (Part 1)here. Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (SCOPED) RKO would later increase its stake to 100% in 1963. succeeded by 15:45 (scoped). Born Saturday Talent:TOM Bernardino, California. CKLW in 1976. GENTLEMAN.BROTHER BILL GABLE. News, with its huge voices and superb writing, demanded your attention. Date:April 26, Mark Richards - filling in for stations in metro Rochester, along with two full-power TV stations, in the U.S. exciting time, and some memorable radio followed. CKLW (Part 1) here. MoreJohnny Time: ROGERS Dave Shafer was a mainstay at and later at WNIC-FM (unscoped) "Go and let the mob in." Kemp. 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