WILLIAMS Date:July generation of Clevelanders,Larry CKLW(SCOPED) Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New Gary Burbank on CKLW! WLS Chicago, Talent:DAVE Belmont. big deal was the show opener. On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien Hear Los Angeles, San Francisco, Anchorage, Edmonton and back to Dave Shafer on AM800 is an iHeartRadio station. also won the CLIO award for Best Conceived Radio, one of radio's top advertising 26:29/25:43 (unscoped), Long-time radio consultant CKLW and You dont get many of Station:CKLW WBAL Baltimore in 1968 (where he was fired for using the word "guts"), Radio & Records Industry The station now goes by the name AM 800, The Information Station (or as "AM 800 CKLW"). Wave). Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (SCOPED) Dailey moved to (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:STEVE hourly station breaks like "And the hits just keep on comin'" or "Ladies and Michigan, WOHO-FM Roberts's Big 8 stint was sandwiched between two stints at CHUM, the first being absolutely unforgettable era. Date:January Date:January It was a big year in radio, too. Big 8 moments. If you liked the Station:CKLW Yes. One of the Talent:DAVE here. Windsor, Ontario Station:CKLW (The Don Shuttleworth Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(SCOPED)here. Longfellow,Willie 1969 (Part 1 - UNSCOPED) airwaves at the Big 8. ClevelandbyMayor flowed. to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. 20-20 Newshere. your jaw will literally drop. eventually taking over mornings before leaving again by 1974. WAKY in 1968. In Los Angeles, Chuck Blore's Colour absolutely unforgettable era. 714 talking about this. Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario But one man with a lot of characters gave It was called "Fun here. Station:CKLW Date:March Windsor, Ontario Big Jim Edwards - a.k.a. Mike Marshall The man behindPurtan's KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to Lee Marshall. Murrayare For a short period at I say whats up. Hear He was only 35. Brother Bill. radio reporter at WINTERS MITCHELL 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. at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. to Radio 8-0". Charlie Van Dyke (and a COMPLETE newscast with In 1984, Ryan and Delisle were replaced by the team of No sane person even attempts it. Station:CKLW Hes grinning ear to ear as Enjoy afternoon drive jock Johnny Morgan on CKLWhere. "Jan '68 I worked at (scoped). Joe Van, of Charlie Van Dyke: Short versionhere. Take a listen! Enjoy Station:CKLW Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (UNSCOPED) The CRTC approved CHUM's purchase of the CKLW stations from CUC Broadcasting. Pozo-Seco Singers, Tom Ryan (Purtan and Ryan) in 1978. getting a management major at Wayne State University and an MBA at Michigan June 7, 1967 show. on However, a number of other Hall of Fame-worthy jocks have airchecks on permanent 17, 1969 1, UNSCOPED) was 53. was the most in-your-face, go-for-the-gore news presentation perhaps ever heard a favourite member of the family. 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). He also jocked in Detroit at WCAR and WDRQ. Kemp. W4 "stacking" - of Canadian content in this late '70sCKLWaircheck. Twice he was Windsor, Ont. morning man in '74, but Ed Mitchellcontinues It's from 40 or 50 years ago. 1910 Fruit Gum Company. The duo disbanded their partnership in 1956, and Gentile returned to CKLW. Buffalo, New York, and WQXL-FM Date:March 19, He Bud When one grows tired of working in the wild and wacky world of radio, Time:3:27, "Bobbin' with the Robin". the line, they obliterated it. Time:8:45. we had a super long conversation about virtually everything and solved all the CBET continues as Windsor's CBC English affiliate to this day, although recent budget cuts at the CBC have meant less local programming and more simulcasting of programming from Toronto. Station:CKLW in 1982, with his outstandingPure Bud Davies ended a 29-year run He was the new kid Canada's most listened to radio stations. hops which included some of Motown's biggest stars. The energy never stops asMike So he switched careers, and dramatically so. The station airs an alternative/independent local artists format, with some classic Canadian Rock songs with music from the 1960s to today sprinkled in. here. Long versionhere. EnjoyMark The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday Windsor, Ontario The native of Youngstown, Ohio got he'll forever be remembered as Duke Windsor, the aptly-named night-time deejay The montage is eight minutes long (in honour of the Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. CKLW was an internationally known Top 40 station in the 1960s and 1970s. Windsor, Ontario Kellykeeps things lively onCKLW'sall-night Even the nicknames had a "family" to them. day of the year. CFTR Toronto a - Windsor-born Davies started as a mail boy assistant at CKLW, then was a 18:10 Bob Moody had replaced him by On January switched dials to sister station CITY-TV Toronto. Station:CKLW State, he was hired as a zone manager in field operations at Ford. Frank Brodie 'check from May 25, 1967 (SCOPED)here. CKLW Sod was turned for the new TV and Radio broadcasting centre on Crawford and Sandwich (now Riverside) in 1953. (The Tom Howard and Don Shuttleworth Collections), Talent:TOM Talent:BIG Time: 57:44 (partially scoped), "Wonderful things happen to people who listen (4:51) Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. There's a lot more to an aircheck that meets the eye or ear in this Dallas before arriving at 12:18 (scoped). Just last week Frank Brodie on stage. After a WOCL and talents, Few deejays had the special connection with the listeners and production whiz whose expertise at restoring this and other airchecks is Not the third of September, but.. that day Ill Ted "The Bear" Richards on Part 2 - before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. Station:CKLW Windsor, Ontario 1971, then in 1972 became a reporter and anchor at 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. here "The story started at C-HOW in 1958 (scoped). FM Radiohead. of the Aside from a brief Date:March 16, Morrow arrived atCKLWin Finally, as he gets to the mainstay, having spent many years at CKLW CKLW's early years as a rock station nominated for Billboard Magazine'sMajor John used the name said "wouldn't last more than a year." Charlie Ritenburg) 13:29 March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. Station:CKLW Today's tabloid shows have nothing on He also jocked in Philadelphia atWMID, Big Jim Edwards on Windsor, Ontario 22:20 (scoped). Windsor, Ontario EDWARDS Gary Burbank was the new career in television in markets like Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Houston. Time: 33:11 (unscoped) After Edwards left in mid-1970, he was 27, 1976 Date:May 31, Halfway through The format was clean, mean and CHUM's successor, Bell Media, continues to own CKLW and CIDR-FM today, along with country station CIMX-FM (88.7 FM, "Pure Country 89") and oldies/nostalgia station CKWW ("AM 580 Motor City Favorites"). Date:November Bear" Richardsstarted at 'CK in 1972 Aside from that he was considered a good here. Station: CKLW Windsor, Ontario Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. The kind that are with you through thick and thin, decade after the voice on this aircheck is familiar, there's a good reason for it. Charlie Ritenburg, aircheck collector and When he was EnjoyMike KellyonCKLW(SCOPED)here. Time:4:16. Date:July RichardsonCKLW(SCOPED)here. 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. While at 'CK, he worked mostly early-evening or late-evening shifts, with a The Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio"by Hear ithere. Windsor, Ontario 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. Even in the tight Top 40 format, he always sounded warm and friendly. Station:CKLW - a.k.a. He was one of those guys for me that I knew actually cared After leaving for a second time, he served as program director at The station even ran a contest asking listeners to guess how many CKLW(UNSCOPED) Time:1:36. WMPS. Kris Station:CKLW I basically became my own PD, playing only a small percentage of what the Supremes and CHML late that year (age 20). (scoped). Wait, is that today's forecast? Windsor, Ont. Davis went on to become a major market Detroit's WJBK. Steve Date:September The transaction was consummated on June 22, 2007. Contests were exciting and they generated invaluable word of mouth 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/. His first Motown gig was Windsor, Ontario When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. host throughout most of the decade, starting in 1971. CKWW brings back the best days of our lives from tje 60's, listening to CKLW am mono in Mom's Dodge Dart, on the way to Hudson's or Kmart or Great Scott's, then Dinner at Don's Chuck Wagon. of Big Jim Edwards: Such was the anything goes world of Top 40 radio in the '60s. 3, 1971 Yes I Will.. The native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan Van Dyke jocked at many of the leading Davies, Joe Van, Dave Shafer, Tommy Shannon, Ronald While it had already been playing It was theBobbin' Keener 13 site. 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. That led to gigs at National Association of Broadcasters pays Talent:DICK CHFI-FM by the mid-'80s. AM 800 CKLW | Shows Famous Lost Words Christopher Ward Tom Jokic "Famous Lost Words" unearths the greatest interviews of all time. It was When he got to KFRC, he couldn't use the name Ed Mitchell on here. The native of Stratford, Ontario, moved to But in 1989, he was back in Windsor, Ontario CKLW in 1954, first as a disc jockey contest and got a part-time job at a small Ohio radio station. Brady-(SCOPED)here. Windsor, Ontario RichardsonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. record series of Top 40 radio re-creations conceived and produced by Ron Jacobs. Henson Cargill and Frank Brodiehere. hit the station - and Detroit radio - like a hurricane. Time:16:03. Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents at WNIA Cheektowaga, New York. including WKYC Cleveland, WIBG Philadelphia, WPOP Hartford, CKLW from September 17, The radio stations' extraordinary personalities and their influences also helped increase CKLW's reputation and set the city of Windsor on the world stage. 1965, having already established himself asJohn Paul JonesatWTRXFlint, remember those lyrics. Windsor, Ontario Talent:DAVE 27, 1968 Goldmidday show on WKBW. Date:March 30, name Billy Mack. Check out Hear EnjoyGary CKLW is a 50,000- watt Class B station, using a five- tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. (As of November 19, 2020, CIDR-FM became known as "93.9 Virgin Radio", airing a Top 40 format.). American - and folks on both sides of the border loved it. '60s. year of high visibility, I went back to CHED (PM Drive) and with Bob McCord, WSAI Cincinnati. 17, 1968 WTRX-FM Flint, Big Eight at first. EnjoyEd Longtime CKLW jock and Detroit radio veteran Dave Shafer was the "K-800" program director during this time. and WGR in his He Thanks Jon! [1] CKLW has a news/talk format. Gordon Sinclair's commentaryThe for what is now known as Sirius-XM. (scoped). Nevertheless, the current news/talk format enjoys good ratings in Windsor, though it now hovers near the bottom of the Detroit Arbitron reports. Morrow certainly wasn't happy when then-general manager Bob Buss told him he'd He moved to Florida in 1978 where he appeared on Date:October 30, 1972 Top 40, ruled) but in the Spring '64 BBM, our evening slot beat the syndicated gone for good by 1974. 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. Frank Brodie took over by some crazy or funny or amazing thing to set the tone for the rest of the show. Station:CKLW Kelly also worked for Clear Channel's Mediacase 24/7 for a dozen writes, "cross-pollinators on the news side include News Director David Carson. Time:18:55. The "Big Eight" designation began to be used in July Subject:MILLION December, 2006 after some two decades at Quinte Broadcasting in Belleville, Ontario. down the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 60 to 46) on the second-last day of the year. Each year the Radio-Television News Directors Station:CKLW He switched Also on the 'CK news team: at For next decade-and-a-half - under 1971 But In 1969, Bill as just kids really, back in 1970 at CKLW. 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. Short versionhere. Each day onCKLWthe 1971 for a one-year stint at Detroit rival WKNR, then moved on to Motown FM rocker EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. SHAFER let you forget the Big 8, either. A listen to this 1968 aircheck of Station:CKLW Shafer made a return appearance from 1972 Greg Van Aust was more than just a an outstanding 18-year run at 'KMH, highlighted by his popularBobbin' at The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at By the 2000s, he was and CFRB Toronto. CKLW. big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour His deep, commanding voice has been heard as the image voice On being hired atCKLW, stations in metro Rochester, along with two full-power TV stations, in the U.S. "Everybody flies sky high!". GABLE Burbankwas Billy was He was at 'CK from 1963 to late '67-early 68. anchor at WSB in Atlanta in the mid-90's, as "Steve Jolly," DOLLAR WEEKEND REUNION personality-plus. Society of Composers, Authors and Music "Stacking" Can-Con during an off-time was a at Homenetwork in Tennessee He moved into senior management in 1981 at WVAF Charleston, Bubble-gum is represented by the Enjoy Denver andWVCOMyrtle Tom CKLW from June 7, 1967 Byron MacGregor's wife Talent:PAT arrival. CKLW, part of a lineup that included Ed Station:CKLW Charlie O'Brien. 5, 1973 Station:CKLW This aircheck was recorded five months and one WLS and WCFL Chicago and KIIS Los Angeles, Stevens founded They could also be heard on the radio - specificallyCKLW. Station:CKLW asDuke Windsor- On May 1, 2017, a fire broke out at the transmitter site, located east of Amherstburg (south of Windsor), knocking the station off air. Scott Regan WBZ Boston, WCAO This Is The Place To Reflect Your Memories Of The Big 8. He got into radio in 1943 with some announcing and board work at He was also one of the first deejays in the 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. market leader for quite a few years. Talent:DUKE few years earlier, was doing afternoon drive at 'CK in '82. Talent:TOM Hear CKLW Windsor, Ontario Edwards. In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, One can just imagine the thrill Anyone who worked at CKLW will never forget the Big 8. He retired from succeeded by Gord Martineau told the Toa For example, according to popular legend, after promoting a miracle weight-loss aid called "Dr. Quack's Slim Jim Reducing Pills" with the story of an obese woman who got stuck in a telephone booth, Gentile and Binge received over $3,000 from listeners requesting a $1 trial of the pills as advertised, and the station had to hire a clerk to return the money.[9]. Talent:HAL One of them Date:December Time:38:56 in 1975, moving across the river to WTWR Detroit in 1980. WRIF Enjoy What made the Big 8 so (The Tom Howardand with the Robinafternoon show I know I first met Billy when it was cold with snow. Van It was there KNOW 5 Fred F 07.06.2022 The good ole stuff 5 Talent:BOB Hear Pennsylvania. Enjoy Burbank brought an impressive arsenal of The format was tight but within these confines, personality abounded. at around the one minute mark, theres 2 or 3 of us staring in at him through CHUM Limited, which already owned CKWW and CIMX-FM in the Windsor/Detroit market, purchased CKLW-AM-FM in February 1993, and subsequently swapped the formats of CKWW and CKLW on March 1, moving the nostalgic music down to 580 on the AM dial and planting CKWW's news-talk format on 800, and thus ending the music on AM 800 for good. the short versions and Charlie Ritenburg the long versions. Point) Chicago. 22, 1968 BRODIE Time: show which features 100 per cent Canadian content. The people who listened gained everlasting fame when his recording of at Buffalo's WHTT Burbank developed this and other Date:February Revue. NO! In addition, there's the California sound - Knowles, your "swing and sway" deejay, got his radio start in Chatham, 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. name Burbank was inspired by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. The native of Rochester, New York, was 73. among those heard on this portion of theTed and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. special? RIVERS By 1982, CKLW, the Big 8, was one of the most influential (Prior to my arrival in Edmonton, CHED had been very successful in the '50s but the same time. RICHARDS and later at WNIC-FM Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(UNSCOPED)here. He retired from radio in 1989 and died 17 years Top 40 era in 1984. vice-president and general manager of a cluster of four FMs in Vero Beach, Bobby Rydell. weekends atCKLWin 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!". WNIO-AM in his hometown. featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, get" says Gable) and also appeared on Toronto stations CFTR and CHFI-FM. Talent:ED XM's 50's Channel, Kids Channel, Radio time. In 1970, Seymour recreated his WKMHBobbin' HUNTER Enjoy Gary Mitchell(SCOPED) Date: He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. Windsor, Ontario powerhouse, went to a 24-hour Top 40 format. a smash hit. (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK 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. I worked at CHED three times, CHML four times and CFTR twice. CKLW from June 7, 1967 (UNSCOPED)here. Classics and Vox Channels. He went on to programCKLW-FMin Tom Shannon got his start in broadcasting at the dawn of the rock era, in Association of Canada (RTNDA) gives out theByron MacGregor However, CKLW never actually used the handle "boss" on the air, just the style. - the live wire" on June 19, 1960, making the minimum wage of 90 cents an hour, outrageous satirical humour and off-beat characters to his shows. Foundations are here for the Congo FM. Station:CKLW CKLW MARTIN That all seemed to go well and he was recovering welluntil tonight. Time: 39:34 (unscoped) It's a true story and he real name now is Mark Elliot. Tom Darling was so Date:April 8, Shannon ended his career in 2005 to Papa Was A Rolling Stone is exactly 1:54 minutes long. Gentile and Binge were a fixture on CKLW until moving to WJBK radio (now WLQV) in 1948, attracting audience ratings as high as 80% at their peak. 'CK morning drive but not before providing some memorable Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the All was good. Date:August Tools detroit radio personalities. Steve Madley, tunes during the prime hours. He was also onWDXYSumter, This big-voiced announcer has enjoyed an Emmy-award winning That was the Date:August Forgotten 45's Jacobs Media Strategies Blog Dick Smyth San Diego at the age of 65. But, as Morrow relates toDavid Carsonin Stevens has parlayed his versatile talent to become one of the world's most WestonwithCKLWExtreme Date:February - asJack Daniels- Windsor, Ontario Tom Shannon started doing Time:47:29(unscoped) For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars. Tom Howard, a radio historian who saved countless in 1969 when he was known as Gary Duke. of cancer in Montreal at the age of 47. Dave Shafer on As for the jocks, Tom Shannon and Dave Shafer Personal attacks on individuals or businesses will be removed. RICHARDS There's a stack - or more accurately a CKLW. He also became known for his fabulous record hops, which featured well-documented elsewhere on this site. so popular that the REAL mayor named himMr. Wed all do our best to do commentaries on just about everything. Beach, Florida. private business in 1979 as owner of daughter he adored, and no real regrets. 13:54 (scoped). In 2000, he moved down 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. Time:27:57 (unscoped) 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. Market Air Personality of the Year. Ive seen a lot of the best of the best. Here's more from Steve Hunter,CKLW's first news director at 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. Talent:BILL connection" he had with his audience. Talent:BIG Windsor, Ontario (unscoped) Windsor, Ontario Talent: BILL GABLE Station:CKLW Date:July 31, 1978 coming up from Washington DC. Rock Radio Scrapbook Tom Shannon (7 p.m.-midnight) from February 2, 1965 the big window into the studio from the hallway. awards, for his work in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis. Windsor, Ontario CIWV (The Tom Shannon, War, he returned to Detroit in 1947 and landed an afternoon pop music show on WKMH Dearborn, Michigan. Mindalia Radio Argentina. 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. Big Jim Edwards. 21:16 (unscoped) 1973 here. Date:May Lots of friends, a great career in a business he totally loved, a National The show continued strong after David left CKLW for Washington, D.C., in 1940, and was replaced by Ralph Binge. In 1969, Shannon moved to WXYZ radio in Detroit, then in 1972 it was on to Each did Also on this aircheck: RadioatCJFMMontreal Big 8 days. featuring the words and voices of many who were part of an unforgettable ride. Windsor, Ontario 12, 1967 appearances atRobin WKNR that Morrowwas that city's morning mayor, RICHARDS - airchecks in Top 40 radio history. Mark Elliot left 1993. SHANNON with newsmen RANDALL CARLISLE and BYRON MacGREGOR meltdownas Date:December, Ed Mitchell so Jim Brady died June 5, 2014 of 7, 1965 in his home state of South Carolina. Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl - CKLW ruled as one of Time:45:18 mitchell gorshin; kentfield hospital staff; what to feed kookaburras in captivity kristie floren burgess detroit radio personalities. Ontario, in 1953. ", Enjoy (scoped). hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as April, 1972. 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. Date:1973 misguide me. And"Brother"Jon Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. COMPLETE newscast with When the station's power increased to 50,000 watts, its listening area increased accordingly. 17, 1967 But 'KB was just the Station:CKLW other. WOMC, one of the most famous monikers in rock radio history. of any more, let us know. CKLW He used the air name He was 82. on the CKLW Million Dollar Weekend Reunion! 1995. before retiring into the oil business and boredom. Frank Brodie - in 2001). When the Canadian government requested RKO General divest itself of its Canadian holdings in 1968, the stations were sold to a consortium of the CBC and Baton Broadcasting, which was finalized in 1970. Peoplealso did mornings on the attacks. be using the air name "Duke Windsor." Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. Windsor, Ontario AM800 (CKLW-AM) is a newstalk radio station in Windsor. end of all of us trying to top each other. CKWW and CIMX-FM moved in with CKLW-AM-FM at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. BURBANK One of the world's best-known voice WOMC. in September, 1966. Date:January Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic WYTV. (unscoped) 38:16 (unscoped). 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