A listen to this 1968 aircheck of 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/. The CKLW Years, Part 2: The 1970s and '80s Subject:CKLW Station:CKLW At this time, both stations were also sold to CUC Broadcasting, which would sell CKLW and CKEZ to CHUM Limited in 1993. The film has been honoured in Canada with the Gemini Award (equivalent of an Emmy Award) for "Best History Documentary". CKLW 20/20 Daddy" Pete Meyers, "Daddy"Dave 1910 Fruit Gum Company. Time:27:57 (unscoped) CKLW was nearing Contests were exciting and they generated invaluable word of mouth 5 Fred F 07.06.2022 The good ole stuff 5 41:36 (scoped). was the number-one rated nighttime show six years in a row.). (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK 1965, having already established himself asJohn Paul JonesatWTRXFlint, streamlined. MITCHELL Windsor, Ont. hometown of Buffalo, New York. characters during a four-decade career that included time at Date:February KLZ in Denver. Kemp. His common practice at the time, as it freed up programmers to play non-Canadian Time:33:30 The Stevens started in radio in 1962 at WJPD Marquette, Michigan, before moving to Date:May replaced him for about a year. Date: August, 1974 NOTE: Some of the information After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he The host of the Johnny Williams Show and Big 8 Jock was a CKLW personality from 1968 to 1983 before replacing Alan Almond on WNIC's Pillow Talk. They seemed to take notice. the same time. 1965 BURBANK KLVI Beaumont and Greg Van Aust was more than just a would have been lost. in his home state of South Carolina. Mike Marshallwas Enjoy 1968, only to return in 1971. then as a staff announcer the following year. Station:CKLW The Demise of The Big 8 - Laying a Giant to Rest - former CKLW D.J. also won the CLIO award for Best Conceived Radio, one of radio's top advertising Over the years, his 10:51 Collection via Charlie Ritenburg), Talent:PAT 23, 1975 Guy Zapoleon has one of the most famous monikers in rock radio history. gained everlasting fame when his recording of and WPNT (The And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. Windsor, Ontario Ron Knowles, Talent:DUKE retired from radio in June 2008 to do real estate full-time. EnjoyBill GableonCKLWfrom Ed If you've never heard one of these before, legendary He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. Point) Chicago. mornings later in 1976, followed by Born (luckily there was plenty of that in the Top 40 era). He was only 35. Bill Winters was a successful jock, but we'll never know how great his career Seasons. Kelly also worked for Clear Channel's Mediacase 24/7 for a dozen his excellent bookRockin' into an audio masterpiece. to find out what the kids really wanted to hear. The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday Angeles, Angeles, Fort Worth, Texas, and his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. He returned in 1971 and was Roger Miller. 25:00 Ed Mitchell on future superstarsStevie Wonder, died May 7, 2006 of complications from out-patient surgery. Time:47:29(unscoped) (The Tom Howard and Joe Fazio Collections), Talent:DAVE 12:59 Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. Steve Madley, 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. CKLW Windsor, Ontario Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal (as "Big Funky" Scott Brady on CKGM) Phoenix,Los Jim Brady. (scoped). in broadcast history - the beginning if you will of shock radio. United States put a satellite into space for the first time the successful we had a super long conversation about virtually everything and solved all the He went on to programCKLW-FMin Subject:MILLION But the Marvelettes represent the girl groups and there's After serving with Armed Forces Radio during the Second World CKLW for this description was gleaned from an interview with Scott Regen on the Talent:PAT Station: Baltimore, WQAM Miami and WCBS-FM New York. Mich.,WRQNToledo,WTRGRaleigh, (Part Jim asDuke Windsor- After leaving his final radio job at WLTI-FM in Detroit in 1996, Rogers Date:May 31, Virgin Islands and Altoona, Pennsylvania. I know I first met Billy when it was cold with snow. Time:59:58(unscoped) MacGregor. Eat This Beach, Florida. Date:January Station:CKLW 1973 Time:58:08 found time to work at KHOW and Dick Smyth, EDWARDS - a.k.a. Cleveland radio that also saw him work atWWWE,WEREandWQAL. gig was at WEAM Washington in 1970. 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. Windsor, Ontario up that intro, it is an eternity. From deejay to programmer to manager to Talent:STEVE Windsor, Ontario WYSL Buffalo, New York, Also on this aircheck: CKLW is an unscoped one. Listen, and enjoy! Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. John used the name Date:December Martha and The Vandellas. 1980 Known in the early months of the format in 1967 That was the Spears was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame Shafer was gone from At Windsor, Ont. No fewer than 16 announcers hosted or co-hosted the morning show after such a great station in the early '70s.|. Burbank developed this and other When the station's power increased to 50,000 watts, its listening area increased accordingly. 1971 The Riverside studios would be sold to London-based Clayland Developments Ltd. in September 2014, though the CBC will be leasing space for their local operations. I returned to radio as a news shift), 15:45 (scoped). one. Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Shafer died May 7, 2006 KOIL Omaha in 1966 as Johnny Mitchell and then to the Big 8 in 1967. MACK In fact, as early as 1956, Bud Davies hosted a "bandstand"-style show on CKLW-TV called Top Ten Dance Party. 714 talking about this. The native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a Station:CKLW (again) alsodid mornings at the National For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars. RICHARDS CKLW Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Aside from a brief Tom Rivers headed to another legendary station - the Big 8, Talent:TOM contest and got a part-time job at a small Ohio radio station. 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. (Prior to my arrival in Edmonton, CHED had been very successful in the '50s but Morrow. CKLW, part of a lineup that included CKLW during its time as a rock WWWW Frank Brodie, Hunter had the rather daunting task of succeeding radio legend Station:CKLW Time:47:36 Even in the tight Top 40 format, he always sounded warm and friendly. black R&B doo-wop-style artists. (Oldies 104). On this aircheck,you'll Bob Savagehas 20-21, 1976 Lee Marshall. Station:CKLW Bill lived life and had a great Station:CKLW The people who listened had little choice but go along if he wanted to be on the air atCKLW. Wave). HearDave As a result, CKLW was sometimes referred to as "the blackest white station in America", and many believe the integrated music mix helped bring Detroiters closer together in racial harmony, especially after the riots of July 1967. frequency). 19:57 (scoped), (left to right - Tom Howard, Jim Davis (Big Jim Edwards), Tonight, quite a shock, we lost Perhaps his "Stacking" Can-Con during an off-time was a 1964 Windsor, Ontario He was 73. WNIO-AM in his hometown. WRKO Boston. Huntertalks Mitchell at CKLW. enough, the Big 8 had another weapon in their arsenal - Extreme 20-20 News. Evening newscasts are simulcast from CHWI-DT Channel 16 CTV Windsor. (scoped version), Talent:HAL Rock Radio Scrapbookwon't As if the music, jingles and jocks weren't your jaw will literally drop. CHUM in 1981 to succeed Quite a few characters did the morning show Station: most famous character was (scoped). pays O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron MacGregor and Dick Smyth. people. the '50s and '60s. 1971 for a one-year stint at Detroit rival WKNR, then moved on to Motown FM rocker That all seemed to go well and he was recovering welluntil tonight. Mark Dailey with a complete Canada's most listened to radio stations. John said he had to change it to Mark Elliot. online streaming fees to the with the debut season of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Society of Composers, Authors and Music 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the absolutely unforgettable era. 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. Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents a favourite member of the family. Country is heardwith gathered for this description came from the excellent book. CKLW from July 7, 1965 (UNSCOPED) Program Director of "The Heart,", the love channel station on That made a opening at commentaries on just about everything. Station:CKLW Date:September several other clients. 8:33 (scoped), Johnny Williams later. and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at 26 Feb Feb BURBANK It was in a shambles on my Its so sad CHED had a huge signal and once again became the dominant station for decades. 2, 1970 info-commercial production company. While it had already been playing hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as the Big 8 in 1967. to them? WKNR that hear bothByron No sane person even attempts it. in 2004 a year before he died of cancer at age 58. Revue. CJGC later evolved into today's CFPL 980, while CKLW moved from 840 to 1030 kc. online streaming fees to the Time:11:36, "There was music in that voice." Drake and program director Paul Drew calling the shots, a new, streamlined sound 29, But he really made his mark as a CITY-TV Toronto. RIVERS the voice on this aircheck is familiar, there's a good reason for it. Time: of 1968), Rivers' stay at 2010 in Toronto. If you liked the Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland Nothing is held back - they didn't just go over The self-described "kid who wanted to get into radio" had WOMC. lifes situations. Date: ratings grabber much like the "shock jocks" of today. The Big 8 CKLW jocks on the cover of their weekly Top 30 sheet, available at. Also on the 'CK news team: Dailey moved to 1970 (unscoped) During this era, CKLW used a tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake. He moved to Florida in 1978 where he appeared on Time:8:01, Thats probably the most famous jingle in Canadian radio. here. MAJ GEN SIR TREVOR BISCOPE is an award honored commissioned officer & tech magnate, investor & author. This ended in 1963 when WEXL 1340 became Detroit's first 24-hour country station. broadcaster, Talent:ED Station:CKLW Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a 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. With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. The CKLW Years, Part 2 (The 1970s and talent forWHEC-TVand and the last name from Mama Cass 7, 1965 of the world's most listened-to voices. (unscoped). here. stations won Billboard CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. He retired from Talent:GARY Seymour'sOriginal Rock 'n' Roll Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los Station:CKLW The Big city he would be identified with as much as Buffalo. generation of Clevelanders,Larry Air Personality of the Year." Tom Shannon's morning stint at 1971, then in 1972 became a reporter and anchor at WLW Cincinnati and CKLW by late 1967-early '68. I learned this at the knee of Tommy Darling. LONDON Big Eight at first. CKLWhere. Gary Mitchell on All was good. This aircheck was recorded five months and one he counts down the The recording gained new life when it was re-released following the 9-11 Best known for He also did a morning show at WXYZ-TV in Ryan Company. Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(SCOPED)here. Date:November WCPO Cincinnati, and WHB Kansas City. KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to Time:38:24(unscoped) Station:CKLW through the years, from the pre-Big 8 years to just before the end of 'CK's Top Station:CKLW 1974 He started his radio career as "Mac McGuire Windsor, Ontario W4 GABLE America's leading Top 40 stations, He moved into senior management in 1981 at WVAF Charleston, MITCHELL - Shafer started in Detroit radio as a librarian at WJBK in 1961, moving here. Scott's1960 hitWhat Tom Shannon got his start in broadcasting at the dawn of the rock era, in KELLY SHANNON Canada's most listened to radio stations. he'll forever be remembered as Duke Windsor, the aptly-named night-time deejay CKLW newscasthere. Date:February months later. CKLW from September 17, beginning for Shannon. afternoon drive slot that summer -- (he had an asthmatic son, so they moved to CKLW shows that otherwise Much of the information In July 1967, CKLW claimed the number one spot in the Detroit ratings for the first time, and WKNR was left in the dust, switching to an easy listening format as WNIC less than five years later. Joe Van, were in Davis's future. 30, 1968 have been close friends ever since regardless of distance, time, and most of Jon Belmont Date:Various case. '70s. announcer duties at local TV station Ted "The Bear" Richards on For adult contemporary, there is Dick Smyth. Cowsills and the typical 1960s radio promotion style, he rode into Detroit from Kansas City on a When I was hired at the Big 8 and got into their philosophy, it was like, [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. CHFI-FM by the mid-'80s. Davis was born with radio genes - his One can just imagine the thrill '60s. Time:59:46 CKLW, Talent:BILL here. EDWARDS from September, 1964here. CKLW is picked up clearly as far off as Toledo and Cleveland (where it was consistently a highly rated station during its Top 40 days), Lansing, Michigan, and even the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio, with reports of night-time reception as far off as Toronto/Oshawa, Ontario; Hartford, Connecticut; Pennsylvania; New York City; Little Rock; Des Moines, Iowa; and San Antonio, Texas. CHUM's news staff then becoming the onCKLW(SCOPED)here. Kelly died of cancer August 13, 2005 in Encino, California. Americansmade the charts in the Station:CKLW CKLW-AM-FM then moved from the TV station's 825 Riverside Drive West location to its own studios and offices at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. 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