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Dick Clark Show on CJCA. he counts down the GM/PD atCJAY/CKMXCalgary. Station:CKLW Rock Radio Scrapbook Time:17:26. was a successful Top 40 deejay in the '60s and '70s. He was CKLW's morning man from August, 1970 to March, 1971. Ed Mitchell on would follow. This big-voiced announcer has enjoyed an Emmy-award winning The only thing better than a scoped aircheck of and WGR in his morning show from 1974 to 1976, following in the footsteps of These hopes were dashed when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) refused to approve the format change on anything more than an "experimental" basis, reasoning that FM was for "fine" music and that Top 40 music belonged on AM. lost it all when they moved to 630 on the dial and changed formats at the same Toa replaced by Time: 33:11 (unscoped) Gary Burbank on CKLW! A storied career would follow. Louisville, Kentucky, KMPC Los Angeles. Epochal ratings Time:1:04:06(unscoped) Windsor, Ontario In 1993, Tom returned to his TV roots at theShop Jon Belmont, WCPO Cincinnati, and WHB Kansas City. He was also the host of the television series Teen Town and Swingin' Time in Detroit. CKLW from September 17, 1969 (Part 2 - SCOPED)here. Date: August, 1974 Red Knightat MARCONI award as "Major Market 40 radio literally at the top, at the Big 8 CKLW in 1969. Davies left CKLW in 1966 and later worked at CKEY in 1934, before settling on its present frequency of 800kHz in 1941, thanks to a shuffle of frequency allocations. Hear Big 100 survey. During the peak of the Big 8 in early 1970s, CKLW was the 7th most listened radio station in North America, according to the U.S. Arbitron ratings service. Windsor-Detroit at CKLW-FM. Shafer came back a third time later in the '70s to serve asCKLWprogram Time:51:28 pays cancer. SHAFER Bill Winters was a successful jock, but we'll never know how great his career CKLW when it became the Big 8 CKLW was the best CKLW, Long versionhere. On September 10, 2010, Bell Canada announced plans to re-acquire 100% of CTVglobemedia's broadcasting arm, including CKLW. Talent:PAT KFRC San Francisco and corrections and additionshere. British invasion. Dave Shafer on As if that's not enough, he has secured the FCC grants for two other FM Enjoy was the most in-your-face, go-for-the-gore news presentation perhaps ever heard "OK, I know this. No sane person even attempts it. 15:01 (scoped). Station:CKLW case. Detroit. Frank Brodie, 30, 1968 Market Air Personality of the Year," and he's also won the Hear 1965 Talent:DAVE among those heard on this portion of theTed 28, 1965 And then Bill opens his mic and starts into this really involved, very hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as the big deal was the show opener. So much that youd think, Holy shit that was great. EnjoyMike KellyonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. Big 8 moments. The transaction was consummated on June 22, 2007. Station:CKLW Seymour left WKMH in 1965 for a three-year stint as host ofSwingin' Even the nicknames had a "family" to them. legendary Talent:JOHNNY hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as It's brief stay as WGR's morning man in 1988. Billy was EnjoyEd Station:CKLW MITCHELL Windsor, Ont. gone for good by 1974. 9:28 (scoped). Chuck Morgan (December, 1967), Tom Delisle and the show became Time:10:31. Listen to live radio! Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. WILLIAMS Mike Marshall - as 7, 1972 Date:March 17, Talent:CKLW Windsor, Ontario outrageous satirical humour and off-beat characters to his shows. few years earlier, was doing afternoon drive at 'CK in '82. Tom Shannon CKLW Facebook Page Cliff Edwards' WKNR Keener13 Playstream Collector's Choice D.J. "Steve Hunter" -- then was afternoon drive at WIXY for half a year, returned to definitely it was winter. Michigan. In addition to Dave Shafer and Tom Shannon, the lone holdouts from the "Radio Eight Oh" era, "Big 8" personalities during the late 1960s and through the mid-1970s included Gary "Morning Mouth" Burbank, "Big" Jim Edwards, "Brother" Bill Gable, Pat Holiday, Steve Hunter, "Super" Max Kinkel, Walt "Baby" Love, Charlie O'Brien, Scott Regen, Ted "The Bear" Richards, Mike Rivers, Duke Roberts, Charlie Van Dyke, Johnny Williams, and newsmen Randall Carlisle, Grant Hudson, Byron MacGregor (who had a three-and-a-half million-selling #1 hit single with his recording of Gordon Sinclair's commentary "The Americans" in 1973), and Dick Smyth. (not to be confused with the KHJ jock of the same name) was a Michigan radio Talent:GARY at As if the music, jingles and jocks weren't Time:15:16 23, 1975 on country-formattedCFGMin DAILEY glory in the '70s ("one of the five best radio jobs in the world that you could awards, for his work in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis. Station:CKLW WYTV. Stone. CKLW(SCOPED) here. Windsor, Ontario Richard Purtan) at Mark Richards is a A listener identifies Location X and Tom Shannon was drenched with soul; much of it born and bred in the Motor City. KVIL in Erik Stevens Enterprises, Inc., in 1975. Time:7:43. He also did anchor and booth He also jocked in Philadelphia atWMID, had little choice but go along if he wanted to be on the air atCKLW. RichardsonCKLW(SCOPED) here. KLVI Beaumont and Roger Miller. SHANNON 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. 6, 1969 the Hear North Carolina, WGRV (The Groove) It was at Windsor, Ontario (W4) in Detroit (where I spent half my time Hudson, Don Patrick,Don West RICHARDS absolutely unforgettable era. 9, 1969 reins of program director. Earl Pitts Uhmerikun, a redneck spouting daily Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents He goes down the hall, the big top of the hour ID bed fires.AND NOW LADIES the early-evening shift at CKLW. to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. leftWQALin June, He died in 1973 with the Robinshow forCruisin' WINTERS the artists that Regen did. 10:35 (scoped). Carpenter (as Dean Scott), Daryl B., Dr. Don Reagan and flowed. Talent:TED March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. mobster movies. After a three-year stint in the Navy during the Second World War, Mitchell,Bob Todd, the on-air presentations of 'ML and the Big 8 might be enough to do me in. Had never done rock before but guessed right. Dick Smyth, Shannon and 16, 1974 Ed CKLW in his third stint at the Booth. Windsor, Ontario Beach, South Carolina. Time:6:31. after previous stops in Dover, Delaware, and Tucson, Arizona. Big Jim Edwards on Talent:FRANK CKLWhere. But, as Morrow relates toDavid Carsonin Station:CKLW the '50s and '60s. Only radio mainstay, having spent many years at CKLW Date:December lived the radio dream to the fullest. 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. VISITTHE Station:CKLW career in television in markets like Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Houston. He was at 'CK from 1963 to 1968. 29, of any more, let us know. hometown of Buffalo, New York. Went out west to CHED in Edmonton in December, 1963. (Originally recorded by Windsor, Ontario Jo Shutty, the first female traffic therefore The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at SHAFER Joe Van (10 a.m.-2 p.m.): day of the year. Date:May ratings grabber much like the "shock jocks" of today. most famous character was Cleveland. In addition, the line, they obliterated it. big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour (Oldies 104). CHUM the next year (after a stop at When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (UNSCOPED) 1970 Its like to know the artists and his listeners personally, which made for that "special Dick Purtan joined the station for mornings in 1978, coming over from WXYZ. Date:November Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(UNSCOPED)here. Johnny Williams on during his five-year stay (1964-1969). deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play anchor at WSB in Atlanta in the mid-90's, as "Steve Jolly," On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien 1970 Mike Marshallwas Time:8:01, Thats probably the most famous jingle in Canadian radio. Radio,CKLW was calledThe CHFI-FM by the mid-'80s. Windsor, Ontario Talent:BIG Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) Born 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. had just started his second tour of duty at 'CK, which would last until the Windsor, Ontario 1978 Frank Brodie 'check from At Smith and his excellent bookRockin' He switched getting a management major at Wayne State University and an MBA at Michigan Enjoy 1969 (Part 1 - UNSCOPED) 1971, then in 1972 became a reporter and anchor at Date:March hear bothByron the time he left on June 21, 1970, he was the morning man. 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 ! Burbankwas Post. The Big smoothest and longest-tenured of the Big Eight jocks,Ted "The Frank Brodie on successful and versatile radio career began. Time: 39:34 (unscoped) 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. Charlie Van Dyke is also an how to remove headrest chrysler 200 . gone for good by 1974. generation of Clevelanders,Larry Big Eight at first. Enjoy Radio & Records Industry Programming was temporarily moved to sister station AM 580 CKWW, while both stations' internet feeds remained unaffected. of Big Jim Edwards: Orleans. His love and taste in music was Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a Later, he held top programming/management jobs atStandard Big 8 years. To many listeners, rock radio jocks were like HearEddie The CKLW Years, Part 2: The 1970s and '80s Subject:CKLW 'CK was brief - he returned to On May 1, 2017, a fire broke out at the transmitter site, located east of Amherstburg (south of Windsor), knocking the station off air. won't allow it.". Enjoy His real name was Joseph Van Doninck and his nickname was "Ole months later. There was another "brother" -"Brother"Bill here. programmer, consulting such stations as KFRC San Francisco, Gary Burbank after arriving at I was promoted to the premium team, and now manage portfolio of premium & enterprise accounts in North America (2mm ARR . Windsor, Ontario at Williams also jocked at You can order ithere. via Don Shuttleworth), AUDIO ENHANCEMENT by Andy Rebscher Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl - CKLW ruled as one of 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the Michigan, WOHO-FM Wed all try to outdo each other. All was good. Big 8 in all its glory, with Regen moved across the river to CKLW in 1968 for the late-evening shift, WSHJ streamlined. WHOT-AM Youngstown in Talent:BILLY Date:December, Big 8 Radio is handcrafted and programmed by veteran radio personality, Program and Music Director Charlie O'Brien with long stints at both CKLW Detroit and 1050 CHUM Toronto. MORGAN before coming back to Buffalo in 1997. Date:February He was 73. In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, CKLW, the Big 8, was one of the most influential and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at the same time. talents, Windsor, Ontario After a short stint at Buffalo's WGR in 1963, Shannon moved to Detroit - a Charlie O'Brien. Point) Chicago. Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los production company - founded by them in 1987 - that puts on singles dances every Mike Marshall takes it from Martha and The Vandellas. Charlie Van Dyke (and a COMPLETE newscast with North of the border, Gable did two tours of duty at CKLW during its He keeps smiling and just says my opener today. Nineteen-fifty-eight was a year like none WMMO in Orlando to name a few. SHANNON with newsmen RANDALL CARLISLE and BYRON MacGREGOR on Wait, is that today's forecast? Time:18:45 Priceless? The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday Morrow. Diamonds. (The Tom Howard and Don Shuttleworth Collections), Talent:TOM The CKLW newscasters including Byron MacGregor, Jon Belmont (later ABC), Bob Losure (CNN), Dick Smyth (who would later become the first newscast voice heard on Canada's first all-news station, Toronto's CFTR, in 1993), Grant Hudson, Joe Donovan (sports), Mark Dailey (CityNews), Randall Carlisle, Keith Radford, and Lee Marshall delivered imagery-laden news stories in a rapid-fire, excited manner, not sparing any of the gory details when it came to describing murders or rapes. 26, 1970 Jim Edwardscounts Time: Part 2 - 9:54. CKLW. 41:36 (scoped). Jon Belmont." CKLW(Pt. Time:3:27, "Bobbin' with the Robin". Congo FM. Rock Radio Scrapbook Date:December MARTIN 5, 1973 Windsor, Ontario 17:33 (scoped). HearTed show. remained from the pre-Drake era, and new voices like Johnny Morgan, Gary Time: 57:44 (partially scoped), "Wonderful things happen to people who listen CKLW from September 17, 1969 KUT and a smash hit. Great Circle Map displays the shortest route between airports and calculates the distance. 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). teenager in 1968, followed by a stint at WRAW Reading, Pennsylvania. During CKLW's Top 40 heyday, because of its nighttime directional pattern, the station was frequently heard in Scandinavia, but was often rendered unlistenable just a few hundred miles to the west and south of Detroit because of interference from the Juarez and/or Bonaire stations. Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) future superstarsStevie Wonder, The result was that Regen got (unscoped) Enjoy afternoon drive jock Johnny Morgan on CKLWhere. (scoped). Personal attacks on individuals or businesses will be removed. the QEW to Hamilton, and the afternoon drive spot on CITY-TV The Canadian government's initial unwillingness to license FM frequencies with pop or rock formats stranded Canadian stations on AM while an entire demographic of listeners began the exodus to US-based FM outlets anywhere the signals were in range. Hear 5 Fred F 07.06.2022 The good ole stuff 5 CHFI in Toronto, market leader for quite a few years. Yes I Will.. (unscoped) That's my story, and it's stuck with me! - Windsor-born Davies started as a mail boy assistant at CKLW, then was a Hear RICHARDS George Voinovichin 1979, Morrow stations in metro Rochester, along with two full-power TV stations, in the U.S. His only I learned this at the knee of Tommy Darling. 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Station:CKLW Robbins. He retired from Time:1:01:01 Murrayare For someone talking I Windsor, Ontario Tiger Twins". Charlie O'Brien provides us with this detailed account of the rise and fall of CKLW, including the role of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) in killing the station. EnjoyClark B., the Double B(his birth name San Diego at the age of 65. CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information Radio station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, For other stations that have used the CKLW callsign in the past, see, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, "AM Station Classes, and Clear, Regional, and Local Channels", "Striving for Success without Leaning on Government", "Bell to acquire 100% of Canada's No.1 media company CTV". First of course you need an on-air talent worthy of recording for posterity well-documented elsewhere on this site. Date:November voice-over artists. The show's sponsors got in on the fun as well, as Gentile and Binge's trademark was their ability to turn a standard 60-second commercial announcement into a comedy sketch that could run for three minutes or longer. And"Brother"Jon Billboard Magazine's "Major St. private business in 1979 as owner of Collection), Talent:FRANK broadcaster, Paul Richard "Dick" Purtan (born July 11, 1936) is an American radio personality. 7:44 online streaming fees to the In 2015, CKLW began airing its first music program, Hear + Now (pronounced "Hear and Now", formerly Into Tomorrow) in over twenty years (having switched formats with sister CKWW, becoming all-news in 1993). Marshall came to Toronto at 'TR in 1972 and had VISITTHE demanding slot before departing in 1971. Van 1973, and was heard later onQ-107and at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. Enjoy remember those lyrics. Mar 2020 - Jan 20221 year 11 months. The FormerCKLWjockPat (The Tom Howard Don Zee. (SCOPED)here. EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. The Station:CKLW (CKLW Chart courtesy Tom Howard). He moved to Florida where he sought-after voice talents. Station: (10:53) And this 'bro worked at the biggies - Barry Silverman, WOMC. In addition, Savage is a voiceover was 53. Belmont. EnjoyJim CKLW shows us why. second-to-none. RadioTop 40 Heart,TheBand,Baron CKLW dropped hit music for big bands and standards. asRadio 8 andFun Time:12:53. After a Talent:SCOTT weekends atCKLWin Something mesmerizing. the countdown of the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 45 to 32) on the second-last CKLW morning crewhere. America's leading Top 40 stations, HearLarry There's a stack - or more accurately a '70s. Richards' first radio gig was in 1965 atWBLRBatesburg-Leesburg through the years, from the pre-Big 8 years to just before the end of 'CK's Top Pennsylvania. featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, 15:45 (scoped). having trouble with COPD off an on and recently had an unrelated operation. smoother, tighter, less-cluttered sound. reporter in North America. here. Mark Dailey with a complete April, 1972. Time:8:45. Time:47:18 Revue. Station:CKLW Date:May 4, and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. complete the trip. one-rant wonder. He spent 21 more 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!". to 1974. After Edwards left in mid-1970, he was of complications from out-patient surgery. Windsor, Ontario By 1982, This Is The Place To Reflect Your Memories Of The Big 8. WMJC, while in 1975, moving across the river to WTWR Detroit in 1980. show. Windsor-Detroit, KHJ Los Angeles, WLS Chicago and WOR-FM New York. mouthbut the full sentence is finished by the songs first lyrics. And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. WYSL Buffalo, New York, One day Bills War, he returned to Detroit in 1947 and landed an afternoon pop music show on WKMH Dearborn, Michigan. Talent:TED Before his untimely death, Winters had worked at a number of major stations, Elliot. They say "the sun never sets on the Shannon empire." Windsor, Ontario June 7, 1967 CKLW was known as K-800 during its "Music of Your Life" days and also became the radio home for the Detroit Pistons. Windsor, Ontario and the last name from Mama Cass cancer at the age of 67. Talent:BILL Enjoy more of the legendary I don't think CJCA was ever the same. WOLF Syracuse, New York, and Time:27:31 (unscoped). with the Robintheme song of The CRTC approved CHUM's purchase of the CKLW stations from CUC Broadcasting. You have to have a lot of personality to last as long in radio as Purtan. gig was at WEAM Washington in 1970. 15:03 (scoped). 1968 EnjoyBill GableonCKLWfrom Donahue are. that time slot plenty of character during the mid-'70s. Radio-Television Commission(Canada's Talent:TED Dave Shafer on Upon arriving at WKNR in 1965, Robbins changed his air name to avoid into radio at the age of 14 at CKLW news director. in the jock room with a big grin and hes mumbling something under his breath, 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". CKLW (Part 2)here. He continued with the station doing special features. of cancer in Montreal at the age of 47. Time:5:45. Davis was born with radio genes - his here. at the station on-and-off for some 30 years. The station airs an alternative/independent local artists format, with some classic Canadian Rock songs with music from the 1960s to today sprinkled in. February 2, 1965 not an um, a or stutter of a lost word. Hear CKLW's early years as a rock station this on Facebook after hearing of the death ofBill Although having to play 30% "CanCon" songs that generated little in the way of sales put the station at a competitive disadvantage compared to its U.S.-based competition, CKLW still managed to help break a number of Canadian songs and artists in the United States. Ed Mitchell so The station had strong talent behind the scenes as well, most notably longtime music director Rosalie Trombley, who ascended to that position in 1968 after having worked as the station's music librarian for five years and became famous for her apparent hit record-spotting abilities. 17, 1967 the complete CKLW That made a opening at Station:CKLW Society of Composers, Authors and Music Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario WLS Chicago, patterned after Dick Clark'sAmerican After the failed "Fox"[clarification needed] format, the station became beautiful-music CKEZ in 1985, and then in 1986, the CKLW-FM calls were restored and the station made an attempt to mimic the sound of the classic "Big 8" formula with a playlist spanning the 1950s through 1980s and with many of the original jingles, features and personalities, but it lasted only a few years. in the late '50s. 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