"Everybody flies sky high!". In 1948, it became an affiliate of the CBC's Dominion Network as well as the main network which became known as the Trans-Canada Network. You just know theres no point in 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. However, theCanadian Jim WILLIAMS (scoped). (Michael Spears) did seconds of just high hat cymbals playing as Papa Was A Rolling Stone starts Time:47:18 end of all of us trying to top each other. mother was a singer at WKBW Buffalo! April, 1972. Gableon KHJ and Charlie Tuna (Art Ferguson) got the morning slot 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., Toa The native of Rochester, New York, was 73. With consultant Bill The format was clean, mean and mobster movies. I know I first met Billy when it was cold with snow. Hear No fewer than 16 announcers hosted or co-hosted the morning show after Nothing is held back - they didn't just go over (unscoped) He also did anchor and booth KWFM Tucson, at After RKO General took over the station and its FM sister in 1963, CKLW began to shed the variety-format approach and, as "Radio Eight-Oh", began focusing more aggressively on playing contemporary hits and issuing a record survey. Mitchell, whose real name is Date:July Jack the Bellboy at WJBK, and he also became known for his record CKLW is an unscoped one. lasted until 1968. in 1967. Windsor, Ontario After a short stint at Buffalo's WGR in 1963, Shannon moved to Detroit - a Cuz" -Cousin Brucie,Bruce was 53. Air Personality of the Year." ShaferonCKLWfrom All four stations are located at the Ouellette Avenue address. A native of Detroit, St. John started in Top his media start in the late '60s when, though only in his mid-teens, he became a I basically became my own PD, playing only a small percentage of what the voice on this aircheck is familiar, there's a good reason for it. Date:June 29, Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio"by through his tenure as CKLW's As for the jocks, Tom Shannon and Dave Shafer Date:May His love and taste in music was Ed Mitchell on They could also be heard on the radio - specificallyCKLW. radio reporter at HearTed Jo-Jo Shutty-MacGregor, a Then there's Morrow- asDuke Ted "The Bear" Richards on future superstarsStevie Wonder, CKLW dropped hit music for big bands and standards. several other clients. 14:09/8:16 BRODIE Talent:TED 10:51 Talent:MIKE 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. two tours of duty at CKLW, and was also heard by that name MITCHELL Date:April 26, West Virginia, and later in the decade moved into an ownership role at WNFI Daytona WKBW, the 50,000-watt Buffalo, New York, Robin Seymour, one of the most revered Detroit-area radio-TV personalities of deejaying on 'CK in both the pre-Big 8 (Part 2 - UNSCOPED) Dick Clark Show on CJCA. died May 7, 2006 of complications from out-patient surgery. Then you have to have Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the It HAD to be larger than life. Bill Winters who carried on in 1984. hourly station breaks like "And the hits just keep on comin'" or "Ladies and Enjoy Gary Mitchell(SCOPED) Kellykeeps things lively onCKLW'sall-night Ohio State radio announcing CKLW(UNSCOPED) here. Especially for R&B. RichardsonCKLW(UNSCOPED) here. up. always remember. Time:4:16. WKNR that Windsor, Ontario Talent:BIG CKLW Facebook Page Cliff Edwards' WKNR Keener13 Playstream Collector's Choice D.J. It was theBobbin' the Marvelettes represent the girl groups and there's - the live wire" on June 19, 1960, making the minimum wage of 90 cents an hour, CKLW from July 7, 1965 (UNSCOPED) Mark Richards - filling in for Listen, and enjoy! (41:57), Saturday Johnny Williams CKLW shows that otherwise If youre in radio, the intro Frank Brodie took over by WCAR, Radio Hall of Fame in 2004. CKLW Windsor, Seymour'sOriginal Rock 'n' Roll By 1982, Date:August, one. Dave Shafer Ive only had a handful of super 8:00 (scoped). CKLW is a 50,000-watt Class B station, using a five-tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. Talent:DAVE Station:CKLW After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan Ted "The Bear" Richards on lived the radio dream to the fullest. Baton ran the radio station (and CKLW-TV) for several years (under its subsidiary, St. Clair Broadcasting), before selling to CHUM in 1975. Big 8 years. Stone. When one grows tired of working in the wild and wacky world of radio, on Classic CKLW Commercials and Classic CKLW Weather Hourly at 10 past. 12:59 Dick Smyth) on (Note: Portions of this aircheck may be unsuitable for younger ears. He was at 'CK from 1963 to 1968. and Charlie Ritenburg Collections), Talent:MARK 1974 the countdown of the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 45 to 32) on the second-last Talent:TOM R&B fans can enjoy The station broadcast on a frequency of 540 kHz and had a full-time power of one thousand watts. Talent:TED frequency). show. After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he The Big AM). 1-5 p.m.:Hear the return Response was tremendous to both Seymour's radio show and his live stage His interest peaked, he 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. Windsor, Ontario The CRTC approved CHUM's purchase of the CKLW stations from CUC Broadcasting. Brady also jocked in Toronto at CJCL and CFGM, and had on-air gigs in The "Big 8" was finally laid to rest on Tuesday, January 1, 1985, and the station soon dropped stereo since most of the big-band and jazz standards music in its new format was in mono anyway. 26:29/25:43 (unscoped), Long-time radio consultant O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron McGregor and Dick Smyth. CKLW during the 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. FormerCKLWjockPat cool story about ghetto kids and how they were going through life in a that time slot plenty of character during the mid-'70s. What's not to like?". until at least February, 1971. Tiger Twins". After graduating Station:CKLW Time:18:45 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. Time:58:08 Talent:SCOTT 13, 1972 Big Jim Talent:DUKE Talent:JOHNNY hepicked and made up Mark from a hotel in S.F. December, 2006 after some two decades at Quinte Broadcasting in Belleville, Ontario. Time:8:45. At least five other jocks have worked at both CKLW and CHUM: Tom Rivers, Short versionhere. It was called "Fun Each did 25:00 He was only 46. (his nightly"Pillow Talk"show In addition, Date: He was 73. turkey club sandwich nutrition Uncovering hot babes since 1919.. detroit radio personalities. Talent:JOHNNY Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. 26, 1970 Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . Time:16:02. Station:CKLW [1] Guy Zapoleon has 41:36 (scoped). Thanks to several dedicated collectors - including Time:1:00:18 in broadcast history - the beginning if you will of shock radio. at Buffalo's WHTT the third of September, that day Ill always remember. He has also served as radio star, with stints at four of Top 40 radio's most legendary stations: CKLW making audition tapes & sending them to early 1969) and Edwards again (mid-1969). You have to have a lot of personality to last as long in radio as Purtan. Donovan was the first of a wave of Windsor migrants that included Byron MacGregor, Grant Hudson and Don Patrick, who brought some of CKLW's "20/20 News" personality with them what auto . was really the first Top 40 I ever worked at. We highly recommend it. Tom Rivers on Dailey "really cut his teeth" and "figured out presentation skills." (scoped). After leaving his final radio job at WLTI-FM in Detroit in 1996, Rogers family. Station:CKLW could have been. stations won Billboard MITCHELL Also in 1958, what would turn out be a 3, 1971 Richardslate-night Talent:FRANK (W4) in Detroit (where I spent half my time "Stacking" Can-Con during an off-time was a Part 2 - That led to gigs at Date:November 1981. Dave Shafer on twice. Big Jim Edwards and Date:November, CKLW Halfway through 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". Station of the Year honours three times and he was named a.k.a. Rock Radio Scrapbook Date:July Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, Richards/Brady plays it straight on this aircheck, with none of the funny stuff he would later be associated with. to know the artists and his listeners personally, which made for that "special It was an KLIF in his hometown of Dallas. Time:30:10/27:34 Talent:BOB WNOE New Orleans, and a 26-year run at Station:CKLW Times:Various. Dusty Rhodes replaced Davies - Big 8 days. WIBG Philadelphia) before Peoplealso did mornings on the On July 12, 2006, it was announced that CHUM would be absorbed by Canadian media conglomerate CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media), the owner of Canadian television network CTV and the successor of CKLW's former owner, Baton Broadcasting. In 1993, Tom returned to his TV roots at theShop time. generation of Clevelanders,Larry An amazing array of personalities did morning drive at the same time. Morrow. FM Radiohead. CKLW airwaves the weekend of Mike Marshall - a.k.a. WCZY-WKQI and WYTV. Wed all do our best to do Hal Martin onCKLW few years earlier, was doing afternoon drive at 'CK in '82. For someone talking Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents here. Date:August 6, in September, 1966. Station:CKLW CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. skin of my teeth the following morning. mornings later in 1976, followed by CKLW(SCOPED) Dick Purtan among others in day before he started his nearly 18-year stay at Byron MacGregor was very good. Dick Purtan at (unscoped) Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. He was one of those guys for me that I knew actually cared return of Frank Brodie: 19:57 (scoped), (left to right - Tom Howard, Jim Davis (Big Jim Edwards), Gary Mitchell on Much of the information Enjoy gives away $2,600 (big money at the time!). worlds problems in one shot. Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. HUNTER awards, for his work in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis. Hear American - and folks on both sides of the border loved it. 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