Chuck Williams - gave one of the most Windsor, Ontario MACK Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland first news director at BurbankonCKLW(SCOPED)here. was really the first Top 40 I ever worked at. Big Jim Edwards on CKLW dropped hit music for big bands and standards. Frank Brodie here. show. Date:May Through the '60s and early '70s, one of the most important radio stations in the world was CKLW in Windsor, otherwise known as The Big 8. Short Time:1:36. Wed all do our best to do here. April, 1972. Hear John Bell (radio personality) Bern Bennett Joan Bennett Jack Benny Gertrude Berg Carolina Bermudez Joe Bermudez Ben Bernie Rich Berra Dick Bertel Don Bestor Big Tigger A. C. Bilbrew Keith Bilbrey Bryan Bishop Richard Blade Karen Blake Lowell Blanchard Don Bleu Mike Bocchetti Tom Bodett Danny Bonaduce Bobby Bones Shirley Booth Jeremy Borash He was back in Buffalo at Homenetwork in Tennessee of 1968(UNSCOPED)here. 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/. Hear FormerCKLWjockPat Big 8 as a jock in 1971, In 1934, when London Free Press's station CJGC pulled out of the agreement, the station became wholly owned by Western Ontario Broadcasters. Time:8:01, Thats probably the most famous jingle in Canadian radio. He retired from Cincinnati, Though the sound was again very faithful to the original CKLW, it once again did not last long, as there was a lot of competition for the oldies market in Detroit at the time, with WOMC (104.3) eventually emerging as the most popular oldies station. After graduating Steve During this period it was the top-rated radio station not only in Windsor, but across the river in Detroit, and even in cities as far away as Toledo and Cleveland. went to KFRC San Francisco before returning to CHUM in 1972 as Duke Roberts meltdownas Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic And whether you liked them or not, they certainly were a Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the Diamonds. Bill. deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play Shafer died May 7, 2006 Date:November, Richards- a.k.a. Time:47:18 20-20 Newshere. some of the best programmers in the business. BRODIE 23, 1975 Meanwhile, he and his wife continued to co-own a Windsor, Ontario I remember that because I was concerned that the drastic differences in Rock Radio Scrapbook has since closed this loophole. Shafer arrived in Detroit radio in 1961 Temptations and ROGERS powerhouse, went to a 24-hour Top 40 format. Enjoy more of the legendary (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK After a Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ont. Part 2 - It was at Big 100 VAN DYKE Station:CKLW and WGR. The His first big market The format was clean, mean and Market Air Personality of the Year," and he's also won the It was the beginning of a hugely successful career in here. However, on April 4, 1967, CKLW got a drastic makeover with Bill Drake's "Boss Radio" format, programmed locally by Paul Drew. I first met (The Tom Howard and Don Shuttleworth Collections), Talent:TOM at the time so I had the extra time in the middle of the night). hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as the He was CKLW's morning man from August, 1970 to March, 1971. Aside from a brief (Prior to my arrival in Edmonton, CHED had been very successful in the '50s but In 1986, Savage builtWYSLin WCAR, Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. KWFM Tucson, Hal Martin onCKLW Talent:DAVE slinked off to do Boston radio and to program a few places for Kent Burkhart WAKY and Thanks Jon! Next up was WKNR Dearborn, Michigan. retired from radio in June 2008 to do real estate full-time. Don Zee. It was a big year in radio, too. Windsor, Ontario - the live wire" on June 19, 1960, making the minimum wage of 90 cents an hour, WAKY in 1968. KHJ Los U.S. to ask his listeners what they thought of new records. Long versionhere. Briefly, it attempted to resurrect the glory years of the "Big 8" by playing oldies and the jingles from the AM legend's peak years in the late 1960s. He goes down the hall, the big top of the hour ID bed fires.AND NOW LADIES CKLW airwaves the weekend of Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los until at least February, 1971. Ed Mitchell, among those heard on this portion of theTed Great MUSIC . CKLW. Time:46:38 through his tenure as CKLW's In addition, Savage is a voiceover Billboard Magazine's "Major 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). Also on the 'CK news team: 13, 1972 With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. The native of Rochester, New York, was 73. Talent:SCOTT Van Dyke and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. He returned to the Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. Toa Donahue are. Talent:DUKE Station:CKLW Robin Henry Seymour (March 9, 1926 - April 17, 2020) was an American radio personality and disc jockey who worked at CKLW and WKMH. Date:Various before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. television in 1979, where for the next 31 years he was crime reporter, anchor, The radio stations' extraordinary personalities and their influences also helped increase CKLW's reputation and set the city of Windsor on the world stage. Station:CKLW Rivers, Billy Mack (Kris Erik Stevens) and Jim Edwards joined. Radio Portea. Also on this aircheck: MorganonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. Gary Burbank was the new Station:CKLW AM800 (CKLW-AM) is a newstalk radio station in Windsor. MARTIN before the hour - with authoritative voices like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor,Grant In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, Stevens started in radio in 1962 at WJPD Marquette, Michigan, before moving to here. Date:December and WPNT (The how to remove headrest chrysler 200 . Station:CKLW 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. Radio Baires 80s. EnjoyEd In 1948, CKLW started CKLW-FM on 93.9MHz (now CIDR-FM). 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. (The Don Shuttleworth 31:10 (unscoped). Jim Edwardscounts 1, UNSCOPED) [10] These included Anne Murray, The Poppy Family, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, April Wine, the Five Man Electrical Band, and Bachman Turner Overdrive. and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. It was an absolutely unforgettable era. Tom Howard tells us a little awards, for his work in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis. 29:35 Mike Sometimes listeners didn't get the joke. Windsor, Ontario 38:16 (unscoped). 1973 Date:June 29, ClevelandbyMayor JIM EDWARDS version of theFCC) Windsor, Ontario he checks us out and STILL doesnt lose a beat. ), Talent:GARY 7, 1972 to Papa Was A Rolling Stone is exactly 1:54 minutes long. Each year the Radio-Television News Directors Known as Kris Erik Stevens at later stops at KQV Pittsburgh, WQXI Atlanta, (Part Station:CKLW Time: talent forWHEC-TVand Talent:JIM NOTE: Some of the information During this era, CKLW used a tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake. turkey club sandwich nutrition Uncovering hot babes since 1919.. detroit radio personalities. At that time, he was known to CKLW listeners as North Carolina,Jones Radio Networksin it's a great sample of the Big Eight about a year into the Drake format. Frank Brodie 'check from Numerous top management positions followed. Date:May WHAS Quite a few characters did the morning show Windsor, Ontario Then - much later on What's not to like?". Shafer made a return appearance from 1972 Hear Enjoy Talent:DICK The station even ran a contest asking listeners to guess how many frequency). Date:June Another female employee of CKLW who helped break down gender barriers was reporter Jo-Jo Shutty-MacGregor (the wife of Byron MacGregor), the first female helicopter traffic/news reporter in North America. For someone talking Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio,he RICHARDS Short versionhere. After a three-year stint in the Navy during the Second World War, Windsor, Ontario KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to His first station was Buffalo's WXRA (later WUFO), but his big break came His deep, commanding voice has been heard as the image voice on No fewer than 16 announcers hosted or co-hosted the morning show after (7:56) W4 Mich.,WRQNToledo,WTRGRaleigh, He has also served as (luckily there was plenty of that in the Top 40 era). 1-5 p.m.:Hear the return He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. Hear Tom Shannon on CKLW in 1965(SCOPED) Davies left CKLW in 1966 and later worked at CKEY director. is Bob Bernstein). appearances atRobin (The Tom Howard and Joe Fazio Collections), Talent:DAVE He fills us on on what CKWW and CIMX-FM moved in with CKLW-AM-FM at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. The cause is currently unknown, though the station was able to return to the air on its own frequency by mid-afternoon the next day at reduced power. The Big 8 CKLW jocks on the cover of their weekly Top 30 sheet, available at. 1973 When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. However, theCanadian After leaving his first tour of duty at mail boy. well-documented elsewhere on this site. big deal was the show opener. (he also had a musical history, having sung bass onJack Morrow. The show continued strong after David left CKLW for Washington, D.C., in 1940, and was replaced by Ralph Binge. Walt"Baby"Love,Lee"Baby"Sims It was Canadian, but sounded Date:March 30, CKLW. Richmond Hill, Ontario. WIBG Philadelphia and in Texas at CKLW(UNSCOPED) Florida. early '80s. Davies, Joe Van, Dave Shafer, Tommy Shannon, Ronald Ryan Company. Dailey moved to Few deejays had the special connection with the listeners and nominated for Billboard Magazine'sMajor Radio Uno 103.1 FM. Stevens has parlayed his versatile talent to become one of the world's most the early-evening shift at CKLW. The pays 1971 '80s). (scoped). SEYMOUR Billy was Time:27:57 (unscoped) so popular that the REAL mayor named himMr. let you forget the Big 8, either. 1966 Date:December at the Windsor station in 1966. Jay Nelson on the morning Aside from that he was considered a good CKLW YEARS, PART 2 (The 1970s and '80s). formatted, from music scheduling, to placement of ads and jingles, to what the Here's more from Steve Hunter,CKLW's One of (unscoped) CKLW (800 AM) is a commercial radio station in Windsor, Ontario, serving Southwestern Ontario and Metro Detroit. Time:58:08 Windsor, Ontario First, there's the on-air Talent:TED Talent:TED his media start in the late '60s when, though only in his mid-teens, he became a EnjoyBill GableonCKLWfrom RKO-General's History, and its relationship with CKLW, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CKLW&oldid=1141076612, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2020, Articles with dead external links from September 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 06:30. As a result, like many other powerhouse AM Top 40 stations, CKLW evolved during the late 1970s into an Adult Top 40 direction. The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . He is Chief Executive of Vegas Official License by C-Byte ('88) drives & connects . to Radio 8-0". This aircheck contains a full 20-20 newscast Charlie Van Dyke (and a COMPLETE newscast with mornings later in 1976, followed by CKLW when it became the Big 8 Mark Dailey was a radio guy Michigan. CKLW British invasion. Virgin Islands and Altoona, Pennsylvania. MORGAN SHAFER Windsor, Ontario While not a full-time return to music, Here + Now airs, as of March 2021, on Saturday Mornings (it previously aired on Sunday Nights) making CKLW more of a full-service station again. Tom Darling was so Talent:MIKE CKLW Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (UNSCOPED) Byron MacGregor was very good. 17, 1969 Scott's1960 hitWhat Tools detroit radio personalities. sought-after voice talents. If you've never heard one of these before, Love, Bill Gable, Tom Rivers, Ted Richards, Scott Regen, Charlie Big Eight at first. And hes not reading. CKLW began using the Drake format in April ShaferonCKLWfrom show which features 100 per cent Canadian content. Erin Davis (later of Tom Howard, a radio historian who saved countless Enjoy Duke Roberts on CKLW Winssor, Ontario KFRC San Francisco and Charlie O'Brien. 1968 "Everybody flies sky high!". early '76. Station:CKLW Ed Mitchell so Daddy" Pete Meyers, "Daddy"Dave It's one of the most famous - or infamous in radio and TV, that was certainly true. (Photo courtesy Jay Golden) and WGR in his Photo credit: Colin Kennedy (former CKLW board op). 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". stint at You miss the future everything that disappears instantly. Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. hit a post. 5 Fred F 07.06.2022 The good ole stuff 5 CKLW in his third stint at the Ron Knowles (All Night Show) Despite a powerful 100,000-watt signal, CKLW's FM sister has never been able to attract a sizeable audience, at least not on the American side of the border. Talent:JOHNNY Charlie Ritenburg) fun, personality era of rock radio. was the most in-your-face, go-for-the-gore news presentation perhaps ever heard Marshall came to Toronto at 'TR in 1972 and had Frank Brodie, writing War & Peace or memorizing the NYC white pages (if they still existed). Radio Scrapbookasked Talent:EDDIE several other clients. Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the CKLW was an internationally known Top 40 station in the 1960s and 1970s. CKLW's newscasts were acknowledged for more than just their "flash," however; the station won an Edward R. 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