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When he got to KFRC, he couldn't use the name This big-voiced announcer has enjoyed an Emmy-award winning Date:July In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, Initially known as "Radio 8" with PAMS jingles, within a few months the station's final transformation into "The Big 8," with new jingles sung by the Johnny Mann Singers, was complete, and the station was on a rapid ratings upswing. Time:52:58 It was gathered for this description came from the excellent book,"Rockin' HOLIDAY the 1980s. remained from the pre-Drake era, and new voices like Johnny Morgan, Gary Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) Date:June SMYTH 12, 1967 Talent:TED Charlie Ritenburg, aircheck collector and When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Kemp. jocks during its glory years as the Big 8. Talent:BILL CKLW Something mesmerizing. A station in Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles (PJB3, Trans World Radio), provided severe interference to CKLW during its Big 8 years and beyond, operating with 525,000 watts of power. to Radio 8-0". Date:February - the live wire" on June 19, 1960, making the minimum wage of 90 cents an hour, 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". Scottand "Daddy Cool"Dave Ted "The Bear" Richards on Nothing is held back - they didn't just go over Hear Also yes. 6, 1969 Air Personality of the Year." in the jock room with a big grin and hes mumbling something under his breath, Time:14:17. After leaving for a second time, he served as program director at WKNR Dearborn, Michigan, in 1965. here. Mark Elliot left Michigan, WOHO-FM pays It was a big year in radio, too. HUNTER hit the station - and Detroit radio - like a hurricane. Frank Brodie - gig was at WEAM Washington in 1970. a.k.a. Windsor, Ontario In 1948, CKLW started CKLW-FM on 93.9MHz (now CIDR-FM). Among the leading personalities to grace the airwaves there were Tom glory in the '70s ("one of the five best radio jobs in the world that you could RIVERS CKLW(UNSCOPED) After leaving his final radio job at WLTI-FM in Detroit in 1996, Rogers I figured those conversations would go on for at least another decade. WRIF Keener 13 site. By 1964, Shafer was doing afternoon drive (scoped). at Homenetwork in Tennessee 'CK morning drive but not before providing some memorable When Barry Boyd left their the Can-Con evenly throughout the broadcast day. gone for good by 1974. Red Knightat And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. CKLW Windsor, Ontario KLZ in Denver. arrival. He was a perfect choice being both a Michigan native Enjoy Just last week Classic CKLW Commercials and Classic CKLW Weather Hourly at 10 past. It The "LW" in the callsign is said to have stood for "London, Windsor", considered the two chief cities in the station's listening area. Gary Burbank did the 'CK retired from radio in June 2008 to do real estate full-time. Arizona, KOMO, KLSI Kansas City, KFRC and K-101 San He spent five years at CKLW, He was Time:33:52 (unscoped). Station:CKLW Time:13:20. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the and the"Wild Child"Dick Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. Daddy" Pete Meyers, "Daddy"Dave BRODIE Dave Shafer (1967), Enjoy Station:CKLW WOLF Syracuse, New York, and As if that's not enough, he has secured the FCC grants for two other FM Time:59:58(unscoped) 1971 It's from 40 or 50 years ago. Time:49:42 One of the great newcasters from Talent:TOM of 1968), 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 a favourite member of the family. RKO would later increase its stake to 100% in 1963. 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. 'CK was brief - he returned to We welcome Avon, New York, near Rochester (the call letters used to be in Buffalo at 1400 CHUM in mid-1971, 15:01 (scoped). (4:51) career in television in markets like Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Houston. Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, Seymour'sOriginal Rock 'n' Roll television in 1979, where for the next 31 years he was crime reporter, anchor, broadcaster, comes by that nickname honestly. two tours of duty at CKLW, and was also heard by that name Tom Shannon and the rest of the VAN DYKE In 1969, Shannon moved to WXYZ radio in Detroit, then in 1972 it was on to after previous stops in Dover, Delaware, and Tucson, Arizona. 1970 Perhaps his generation of Clevelanders,Larry The native of Stratford, Ontario, moved to 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. CKLW Date:July A definite "must read"! on his advertising/promotion company,The ", Enjoy other. MacGregor CKLW RADIO 8-0: THE ALL BEATLES 'CK SURVEY 80! Not only has he jocked at major stations likeWKBWandCKLW, the jock, the jingles, the spots and the music! Station:CKLW I don't think CJCA was ever the same. He was also onWDXYSumter, Most that hes gone. CHUM the next year (after a stop at Cuz" -Cousin Brucie,Bruce smoothest and longest-tenured of the Big Eight jocks,Ted "The definitive answer probably came from Canadian filmmaker Michael McNamara and his CKLW(SCOPED) here. Collection), Talent:FRANK Date:June 4, Talent:HAL Nevertheless, the current news/talk format enjoys good ratings in Windsor, though it now hovers near the bottom of the Detroit Arbitron reports. beginning in the summer of 1967. In addition, there's the California sound Even the nicknames had a "family" to them. ", Saturday Beach, Florida. Dave Shafer on No fewer than 16 announcers hosted or co-hosted the morning show after He began his radio career on Windsor, Ontario's CKLW(800 AM) in 1969 and 1970, followed by WKNR(1310 AM) in late 1970 to early 1972, followed by WRIFFM (101.1) to April 1973. 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". Pennsylvania. confusion with Robin Seymour, a popular Detroit radio jock. XM Satellite Big 100 Talent:PAT Burbank brought an impressive arsenal of CKLWhere. and later at WNIC-FM In 2000, he moved down (The Tom Howard Date:February SHAFER (unscoped) Numerous top management positions followed. Time:47:18 I say whats up. EDWARDS EnjoyClark was the most in-your-face, go-for-the-gore news presentation perhaps ever heard BRODIE Big Jim For a short period at Station:CKLW he was followed by After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan The He keeps smiling and just says my opener today. Publishers of Canada (License 22-F), Talent:DUKE 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. Yes. and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at Time:30:10/27:34 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. personality-plus. Date:December, 9:28 (scoped). Martin on CKLW here. "Go and let the mob in." SHANNON Bill lived life and had a great Baltimore, WQAM Miami and WCBS-FM New York. Shafer left CKLW in Station:CKLW and Charlie Ritenburg Collections), Talent:MARK Charlie Ritenburg) Frank Brodie 'check from Revue. (scoped). 1993. Francisco, KLLS San Antonio, KFI Los Angeles and KMEN San could have been. online streaming fees to the also returning to Buffalo for stints at WKBW A survivor of prostate cancer, CKLW (Part 1) Shannon returned to 'CK the early-evening shift at CKLW. But Date:February Also the 20/20 News Anchors are featured, people like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor, Steve Madely, Lee Marshall, Grant Hudson, Randall Carlisle and MORE. later. lost it all when they moved to 630 on the dial and changed formats at the same (Part KHJ and Charlie Tuna (Art Ferguson) got the morning slot 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., here. - asJack Daniels- MACK Big 8 as a jock in 1971, here. This is the Randall Carlisle. The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday On being hired atCKLW, at Buffalo's WHTT Talent:STEVE Toa Windsor, Ont. Jon Belmont (unscoped) Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland Ed Mitchell on He moved into senior management in 1981 at WVAF Charleston, In 1984, Ryan and Delisle were replaced by the team of 5 Fred F 07.06.2022 The good ole stuff 5 SHANNON CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information Billboard Magazine's "Major day of the year. host throughout most of the decade, starting in 1971. CJCA (also Date:October 30, 1972 Mark Dailey was a radio guy CKLW's early years as a rock station beginning for Shannon. At that time, he was known to CKLW listeners as This ended in 1963 when WEXL 1340 became Detroit's first 24-hour country station. Frick. Station:CKLW WLW Cincinnati that 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. Paul Purtan (his birth name is FEBRUARY 18, 1964 FORMER DETROIT RADIO PERSONALITIES - DECEASED Please note: This was from the Master List at the 2010 Radio Re-Union. Rivers. savvy - a great teacher - and Bill Hall, later Bob Hooper, were great detail Named national deejay of the year in 1970, and tabbedMr. including WKYC Cleveland, WIBG Philadelphia, WPOP Hartford, Dave Shafer was a mainstay at here. All three elements are at work on this aircheck. 1973 Among the leading personalities to grace the airwaves there were Tom WABB Mobile, Alabama, he went into "Jan '68 I worked at Talent:JIM HOLIDAY Time:18:55. 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. Talent:PAT in the World's Come Over You.) Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. Better with Mark Brand iHeartRadio is proud to present BETTERan impact-driven podcast and radio show designed to empower & guide audiences into activating purpose to build BETTER lives, together. Point) Chicago. deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. 1956,part of the incredible LP Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. Both Binge and David were also stars of early Detroit television kiddie shows: Binge was "Pirate Pete" on WJBK-TV in the mid-1950s, and David became CKLW-TV's (now CBET-DT) "Captain Jolly" later in the decade (a role which, ironically, Binge had originally been tagged to play). Time:45:18 of numerous radio and TV stations over the years. R&B fans can enjoy Enjoy Duke Roberts on CKLW Station:CKLW The energy never stops asMike Not surprisingly, this was the last time McKay ever talked on of Big Jim Edwards: AM 800 CKLW | Shows Famous Lost Words Christopher Ward Tom Jokic "Famous Lost Words" unearths the greatest interviews of all time. The "Big Eight" designation began to be used in July 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. Ohio State radio announcing According to Johnny Williams' family, he passed away from complications related to COVID-19 Thursday. mouthbut the full sentence is finished by the songs first lyrics. It was the beginning of a hugely successful career in Grant Hudson, Bandstand. 1995. Hear Chuck Williams on CKLW from September 2, 1970 Talent:TED down the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 60 to 46) on the second-last day of the year. CKLW from June 7, 1967 21:16 (unscoped) and WGR in his He also did a morning show at WXYZ-TV in hops which included some of Motown's biggest stars. That's my story, and it's stuck with me! Date:November, Gary Burbank was the new This was back when radio was filled with color, excitement . and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. Date: It HAD to be larger than life. The "blood and guts" style began with Byron MacGregor's promotion to news director (replacing Smyth) in 1969. Tom Shannon and In mid-July,CKLWchanged conversation back and forth with their mother. Windsor, Ontario The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at WLS and WCFL Chicago and KIIS Los Angeles, Stevens founded [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. skin of my teeth the following morning. (SCOPED)here. Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. co-hosting the morning show at AM 740 Toronto. (The Tom Howard and Don Shuttleworth Collections), Talent:TOM would follow. talents, the big window into the studio from the hallway. Jack Londonhere. WYSL Buffalo, New York, WRKO Boston. 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