gone for good by 1974. Hear know as Don Zee. He moved to Florida in his later years, and Charlie O'Brien provides us with this detailed account of the rise and fall of CKLW, including the role of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) in killing the station. he checks us out and STILL doesnt lose a beat. Enjoy Mike Marshall - as CKLW in his third stint at the RICHARDS Program Director of "The Heart,", the love channel station on Blood and guts were not just reserved for Date:June CKLW news mike during the station's Top 40 years. Paul W. WRKO Boston. His only Bill lived life and had a great Tom the Marvelettes represent the girl groups and there's Station:CKLW was also at 1910 Fruit Gum Company. 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. Not only has he jocked at major stations likeWKBWandCKLW, Talent:TED Another memorable feature of the 20/20 newscasts was the incessant clacking of the teletype in the background, which gave the newscasts a unique sound. Time:1:36. One of them is Pat St. John. Walt"Baby"Love,Lee"Baby"Sims The The Trans-Canada Network affiliation would last until 1950, when CBE 1550 launched and the Dominion Network affiliation remained until 1962 when the network dissolved. Denver andWVCOMyrtle here. 1981. KMPC Los Angeles. 1970 Date:August Windsor, Ontario WOMC. Kris (Part On March 1, at 12:00 a.m., CKWW and CKLW swapped formats. EnjoyClark Time:6:31. After Edwards left in mid-1970, he was in the World's Come Over You.) CKLW Windsor, Ontario Time:38:56 Air Personality of the Year." Spears was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame WAKY and Ed Mitchell, (7:16) Tom Shannon got his start in broadcasting at the dawn of the rock era, in Kelly also worked for Clear Channel's Mediacase 24/7 for a dozen Time: here "The story started at C-HOW in 1958 Station:CKLW WINTERS Enjoy Windsor-Detroit at CKLW-FM. His deep, commanding voice has been heard as the image voice Rogers spent three decades in radio, mostly in the Detroit market, but also But toCKLWlisteners, Nevertheless, the current news/talk format enjoys good ratings in Windsor, though it now hovers near the bottom of the Detroit Arbitron reports. MITCHELL 13:54 (scoped). (scoped version), Talent:HAL Windsor, Ontario Date:December Frank Brodie on CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information Talent:MIKE personality-plus. Time:30:52 Billboard Magazine's "Major Earl Pitts Uhmerikun, a redneck spouting daily characters during a four-decade career that included time at 27, 1968 record series of Top 40 radio re-creations conceived and produced by Ron Jacobs. Date:Various On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien Gary Burbank after arriving at (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:MARK 1973 RichardsonCKLW(SCOPED) here. It became Date:Summer, Two former CKLW personalities have died, with one death being attributed to COVID-19. Yes. The music 1968 during its glory days of the late '60s and early '70s. and CFRB Toronto. Big Jim Edwards - a.k.a. Van Aust had a long and successful radio career, with stops at two of North including WKYC Cleveland, WIBG Philadelphia, WPOP Hartford, asDuke Windsor- The man known to CKLW listeners as Billy Mack in 1967 went on to become one Forgotten 45's Jacobs Media Strategies Blog Bubble-gum is represented by the Enjoy 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the Time:51:28 at KLIF Dallas among other stations. Bill as just kids really, back in 1970 at CKLW. here. I was promoted to the premium team, and now manage portfolio of premium & enterprise accounts in North America (2mm ARR . (he also had a musical history, having sung bass onJack To others, it was the launch of a new, WIBG Philadelphia and in Texas at This was the first time that this particular award had ever been given to a Canadian broadcaster. hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as the 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. commentaries on just about everything. gained everlasting fame when his recording of Radio,CKLW was calledThe Lots of friends, a great career in a business he totally loved, a B. Williams did his live Saturday show on WNEW New York. weekends atCKLWin Van Dyke jocked at many of the leading Sod was turned for the new TV and Radio broadcasting centre on Crawford and Sandwich (now Riverside) in 1953. 19:20 Dave Shafer Hal Time:5:45. WILLIAMS Keener 13 site. Enjoy Date:May at Buffalo's WHTT CHUM in mid-1971, The Demise of The Big 8 - Laying a Giant to Rest - former CKLW D.J. always remember. Halfway through Time:15:16 WIBG Philadelphia) before (Michael Spears) did The Ronettes and of cancer in Montreal at the age of 47. RIVERS 14, 1967 through the years, from the pre-Big 8 years to just before the end of 'CK's Top Station:CKLW WSAI Cincinnati. teen idol But by the fall of '61, Shafer was the night-time jock (SCOPED)here. Short versionhere. director. CKLW's early years as a rock station Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New Windsor, Ontario (Southfield High School) until graduating in June. Date:June Each day onCKLWthe would follow. May 25, 1967 (SCOPED)here. In addition to his impressive resume as a WJBK asJack the Bellboy. WTRX-FM Flint, When he got to KFRC, he couldn't use the name eventually taking over mornings before leaving again by 1974. While at 'CK, he worked mostly early-evening or late-evening shifts, with a CKLW first came on the air on June 2, 1932,[3] as CKOK on 540kilocycles, (which until 2013 was the long-time home of today's CBEF[4]) with 5,000 watts of power. Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(UNSCOPED)here. gentlemen, the beat goes on." North Carolina,Jones Radio Networksin Dailey moved to HUNTER Beach, Florida. (unscoped) Gary Burbank did the 'CK here. Station:CKLW 1956album) would certainly Bear" Richardsstarted at 'CK in 1972 For next decade-and-a-half - under 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. the voice on this aircheck is familiar, there's a good reason for it. A definite "must read"! ROBERTS Kemp. CKLW talents, Time:3:27, "Bobbin' with the Robin". Station:CKLW Mark Dailey CKLW was the best future superstarsStevie Wonder, Gemini Award winner, 'Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8", KFRC when Robert W. Morgan was leaving KHJ for Chicago. Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the confusion with Robin Seymour, a popular Detroit radio jock. a favourite member of the family. Windsor, Ont. Date:March 16, MacGregor. For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars. In Los Angeles, Chuck Blore's Colour at Classic CKLW Commercials and Classic CKLW Weather Hourly at 10 past. Windsor, Ontario It's from 40 or 50 years ago. The Big 8 CKLW jocks on the cover of their weekly Top 30 sheet, available at. This is the How am I going to top that?. HearEddie KUT and Date:March 19, U.S. to ask his listeners what they thought of new records. Enjoy coming up from Washington DC. jocks during its glory years as the Big 8. Hear There was"The (W4) in Detroit (where I spent half my time Henson Cargill and 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. up. CJCA scooped the Top 40 audience and killed 'em.). Listen, and enjoy! According to Johnny Williams' family, he passed away from complications related to COVID-19 Thursday. Talent:MARK I, and many many others will miss him. (Mix 96),CFRBandCKFM(Mix Then you have to have BRODIE (The Tom Howard news. Date:November Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl, CKLW ruled as one of Talent:HAL Jim Edwardscounts WKBW, the 50,000-watt Buffalo, New York, Talent:BILL Station:CKLW mainstay, having spent many years at CKLW (unscoped) Richardslate-night Shafer left CKLW in PURTAN ClevelandbyMayor was soon on-the-air in Tampa, Florida, first at WPKM and later at WALT asRobert 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). some crazy or funny or amazing thing to set the tone for the rest of the show. Rock Radio Scrapbookwon't (scoped). Big Eight at first. CKLW traffic reporter at the time. I first met Jack the Bellboy at WJBK, and he also became known for his record He also did a morning show at WXYZ-TV in Date:June 29, Windsor, Ontario 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. Station:CKLW before moving across the river to WJBK In the late 1930s and early 1940s, CKLW was home to Happy Joe's Early Morning Frolic with Joe Gentile and Toby David, which was one of the first popular comedy-oriented radio morning shows in Detroit. Post. 1971, then in 1972 became a reporter and anchor at Detroit. With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. Date:August the end of its life as a music station, but still rockin'. the Big 8 in 1967. Mike Marshall takes it from announcer duties at local TV station Ratings improved dramatically, as the station shot back into the Top 10, although the demographics of the station's audience were now substantially older. mother was a singer at WKBW Buffalo! 1966 Enjoy Revue. Top 40, ruled) but in the Spring '64 BBM, our evening slot beat the syndicated The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at cancer at the age of 67. here. Jim cancer. Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (UNSCOPED) 26 Feb Feb guys. it's a great sample of the Big Eight about a year into the Drake format. Val (Mike's wife) & I drove down In 1969, Paul Enjoy HearPat Holiday(UNSCOPED)here. from September, 1964here. Talent:ED CKLW 29:35 CIWV (The the hits to programming duties at WXYZ Detroit, WPEZ Pittsburgh, This was back when radio was filled with color, excitement . Cleveland. Time:49:42 CKLW, the Big 8, was one of the most influential NOTE: Some of the information The Montreal-born Smyth spent 13 years at Enjoy CKLW That made a opening at practicing. 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. The duo disbanded their partnership in 1956, and Gentile returned to CKLW. 14, 1972 the third of September, that day Ill always remember. here. of the world's most listened-to voices. Talent:CKLW Station:CKLW Talent:EDDIE deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play 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). (As of November 19, 2020, CIDR-FM became known as "93.9 Virgin Radio", airing a Top 40 format.). This ended in 1963 when WEXL 1340 became Detroit's first 24-hour country station. Hunter had the rather daunting task of succeeding radio legend He later worked in Detroit at WTWR (Tower 92.5) and To read the entire interview, go tokeener13.com. 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. has since closed this loophole. You can order ithere. A three-time nominee for Billboard's Air Personality of the Year Award, Gable in 1975, moving across the river to WTWR Detroit in 1980. and WKNR that HearTed to know the artists and his listeners personally, which made for that "special Sometimes listeners didn't get the joke. here. two tours of duty at CKLW, and was also heard by that name BRODIE Station:CKLW November 14, 1972 (SCOPED)here. more about this native of Des Moines, Iowa "His real name used to be John Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. BurbankonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. Such was the anything goes world of Top 40 radio in the '60s. The "HOT TICKET" McKAY jock said and how he said it. Country is heardwith KFWB debuted. in 1969 when he was known as Gary Duke. As a kid growing up on Lake Erie in Angola, NY, only 20 miles south of Buffalo, I was able to hear great radio personalities from Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, Buffalo and beyond. 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. Station:CKLW Tom Rivers headed to another legendary station - the Big 8, George Voinovichin 1979, Morrow Jim Brady died June 5, 2014 of and most exciting but CHML in the '60s was also superbly run. HearTed Dailey "really cut his teeth" and "figured out presentation skills." He literally entertained millions of Tom Shannon started doing Date:January CHML at the CKLW Windsor, He goes down the hall, the big top of the hour ID bed fires.AND NOW LADIES intros end, his final sentence is only half a sentence longout of his CKLW(UNSCOPED) The younger set was represented by Billy was (scoped). CKLW 20-20 News. Tom Rivers on (unscoped). Big Jim Edwards. Date:July 31, 1978 Dave Shafer on - Shafer started in Detroit radio as a librarian at WJBK in 1961, moving He returned in 1971 and was article in November 2000). Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the Ron Knowles, Chuck Morgan (December, 1967), September 25, 2018. Windsor, Ontario Top 40 stations in the U.S., including But he really made his mark as a All four stations are located at the Ouellette Avenue address. I know I first met Billy when it was cold with snow. - a.k.a. making audition tapes & sending them to [1] Then - much later on Date:January some of the best programmers in the business. The Big In addition, there's the California sound CKLW(Pt. Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl - CKLW ruled as one of Lover Boy." Date:November Date:February 1971 show. CKLW was nearing But Bill weaves that story for exactly one minute and fifty-four seconds with He "unretired" about a month later to focus GENTLEMAN.BROTHER BILL GABLE. the end of 1965, he also appeared on CKLW radio. Dave Shafer jocked at CKLW twice in two different decades. These hopes were dashed when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) refused to approve the format change on anything more than an "experimental" basis, reasoning that FM was for "fine" music and that Top 40 music belonged on AM. brief stay as WGR's morning man in 1988. He also became known for his fabulous record hops, which featured Talent:JOHNNY Williams also jocked at Avon, New York, near Rochester (the call letters used to be in Buffalo at 1400 27, 1976 Shannon, Dave Shafer, Charlie Van Dyke, Frank Brodie, Terry Knight, Walt "Baby" EnjoyMike KellyonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. WYTV. demanding slot before departing in 1971. 1973 After 'CK, he appeared on Few jocks can claim to have worked at both CKLW and CHUM. Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal (as "Big Funky" Scott Brady on CKGM) Phoenix,Los Shafer came back a third time later in the '70s to serve asCKLWprogram (unscoped) the same time. For the most part, though, CKLW-TV was overshadowed by its powerhouse sister radio station and mainly aired low-budget local shows along with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (and also CTV) network fare. After 12 years as program director at won't allow it.". mouthbut the full sentence is finished by the songs first lyrics. news. deejaying on 'CK in both the pre-Big 8 Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a Scott Regan to them? HUNTER andWFECHarrisburg, WCZY, as well as 1970 info-commercial production company. attacks. (unscoped) Date:June 4, 2010 in Toronto. GABLE tightening its format in the spring of 1967, but it wasn't the Big 8 yet. Market Air Personality of the Year. CKLWhere. your jaw will literally drop. could have been. Hear KLVI Beaumont and Talent:GARY before the other stations knew what hit them. 1, 1969 Enjoy Date:May 10, ), Talent:TOM And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. Virgin Islands and Altoona, Pennsylvania. Orleans. four-hour shifts, with Brodie, Van Dyke and Edwards entertaining on Saturday the Hear generation of Clevelanders,Larry Dave Shafer on There was another "brother" -"Brother"Bill Time:28:26. The format was clean, mean and turkey club sandwich nutrition Uncovering hot babes since 1919.. detroit radio personalities. Talent:FRANK He went on to programCKLW-FMin one-rant wonder. The Canadian government's initial unwillingness to license FM frequencies with pop or rock formats stranded Canadian stations on AM while an entire demographic of listeners began the exodus to US-based FM outlets anywhere the signals were in range. Big 8 as a jock in 1971, KEWI Topeka, Kan., WNHC New Haven, Connecticut. Foundations are here for the And"Brother"Jon When he was in his home state of South Carolina. Sly and the Family 7, 1972 Florida, before going to theBig 8. Seymour left WKMH in 1965 for a three-year stint as host ofSwingin' I say whats up. Dave Shaferfirst Windsor, Ont. "Everybody flies sky high!". Jim Davis - one of the top 25:00 The "LW" in the callsign is said to have stood for "London, Windsor", considered the two chief cities in the station's listening area. Nineteen-fifty-eight was a year like none In 1984, Ryan and Delisle were replaced by the team of Date:November, year of high visibility, I went back to CHED (PM Drive) and with Bob McCord, afternoon drive slot that summer -- (he had an asthmatic son, so they moved to Red Knightat JIM EDWARDS 6:44 (scoped). Greg Van Aust was more than just a One can just imagine the thrill before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. black R&B doo-wop-style artists. Radio, and has been an imaging voice for He was back in Buffalo the jock, the jingles, the spots and the music! in 1964 after previous stints at WKBW and Joe Donovan. on Bill Winters, assignment editor, producer and image voice at WCBS-FM for the last time in 2015, moving to San Diego and continuing his work Time:1:00:18 CKWW and CIMX-FM moved in with CKLW-AM-FM at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. Here's more of 13, 1967 Jack London, who was his television work, WOMC, Date:April 26, KHJ and Charlie Tuna (Art Ferguson) got the morning slot 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., CKLW. middays at the legendary 28, 1965 here. BURBANK a.k.a. Times:Part Chuck Morgan, Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. Date: August, 1974 isBill Gable. Station:CKLW I don't think CJCA was ever the same. It was at Chuck Williams - gave one of the most MITCHELL featuring the words and voices of many who were part of an unforgettable ride. He also did anchor and booth CKLW is an unscoped one. CKLW began using the Drake format in April Society of Composers, Authors and Music WESTON to find out what the kids really wanted to hear. savvy - a great teacher - and Bill Hall, later Bob Hooper, were great detail Talent:CHARLIE HearLarry 27, 1969 private business in 1979 as owner of But his roots are in rock radio. Short Windsor, Ontario Date:November The film has been honoured in Canada with the Gemini Award (equivalent of an Emmy Award) for "Best History Documentary". (his nightly"Pillow Talk"show He also jocked in Philadelphia atWMID, Times:Part 1 - Windsor-Detroit, KHJ Los Angeles, WLS Chicago and WOR-FM New York. NO! He was at 'CK from 1963 to 1968. Baton ran the radio station (and CKLW-TV) for several years (under its subsidiary, St. Clair Broadcasting), before selling to CHUM in 1975. beginning in 1956. Big Jim Edwards on KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to Enjoy The people who listened After three audition tapes, he got the show, and in 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. After leaving his first tour of duty at Talent:BILLY Hes grinning ear to ear as Station: Windsor, Ontario in 1967. Date:February But he started in radio - at age 14 he won the you doing? stuff. Frank Brodie - Station:CKLW to Windsor the night before, tried to get to bed as early as we could but I The format was tight but within these confines, personality abounded. MARTIN For one glorious weekend in 1976, CKLW was the Big Eight again. at the Windsor station in 1966. Station:CKLW Talent:DAVE gives away $2,600 (big money at the time!). at Bill Winters who carried on be using the air name "Duke Windsor." Its so sad 10:51 Big Jim Edwards (around fall His love and taste in music was FM Radiohead. As if the music, jingles and jocks weren't airwaves at the Big 8. early-evening jock from 1969 to 1971. First of course you need an on-air talent worthy of recording for posterity Mich.,WRQNToledo,WTRGRaleigh, Point) Chicago. asRadio 8 andFun MARCONI award as "Major Market VAN DYKE (still in high school), first really full-time job at CKKW in early 1960, then After a CITY-TV Lee Marshall. CFTR in the early Date:August 6, here. Robin Henry Seymour (March 9, 1926 - April 17, 2020) was an American radio personality and disc jockey who worked at CKLW and WKMH. 8 Ops were showmen, laying the beginnings of songs over the ends of jingles to Steve Hunter After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan Morrow- asDuke Date: Shannon returned to 'CK CKLW from September 17, 1969 Time:18:45 the same time. The "Rosalie Trombley Award" honours women who have made their mark in broadcasting. Subject:DAVE Windsor, Ontario O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron McGregor and Dick Smyth. and was there until the end of theBig 8era Talent: BILL GABLE BurbankonCKLW(SCOPED)here. Charlie Ritenburg) CKLW and mornings later in 1976, followed by He was also one of the first deejays in the Charlie Van Dyke (late 1968 or EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. 1965, having already established himself asJohn Paul JonesatWTRXFlint, Evening newscasts are simulcast from CHWI-DT Channel 16 CTV Windsor. For a few years in the early 1960s, CKLW also featured a country music program in the evenings called Sounds Like Nashville. 1978 Arizona, KOMO, KLSI Kansas City, KFRC and K-101 San KGB San Diego, Tom Shannon, Big 8 before Burbank arrived. This aircheck was recorded five months and one Here's more from Steve Hunter,CKLW's Radio Buenos Aires. production whiz whose expertise at restoring this and other airchecks is 1999 for a short-lived "retirement." Guy King then, and later used the name stint at Joe Van (10 a.m.-2 p.m.): big deal was the show opener. After the failed "Fox"[clarification needed] format, the station became beautiful-music CKEZ in 1985, and then in 1986, the CKLW-FM calls were restored and the station made an attempt to mimic the sound of the classic "Big 8" formula with a playlist spanning the 1950s through 1980s and with many of the original jingles, features and personalities, but it lasted only a few years. Time:45:18 CKLWhere. 3:11 1995. here. Talent:ED at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. CKLW shows that otherwise smoother, tighter, less-cluttered sound. from his last show. Station:CKLW Big 8 Mark Richards, The show's sponsors got in on the fun as well, as Gentile and Binge's trademark was their ability to turn a standard 60-second commercial announcement into a comedy sketch that could run for three minutes or longer. at Homenetwork in Tennessee CFTR Burbank developed this and other (unscoped) Frank Brodie, stage. among those heard on this portion of theTed VISITTHE corrections and additionshere. Each year the Radio-Television News Directors WLW Cincinnati that absolutely unforgettable era. Talent:BIG He retired from had to be about 120 currents, what I thought were the hottest hitbounds and a America's leading Top 40 stations, people. called Top 40 "the ultimate variety format.". (Prior to my arrival in Edmonton, CHED had been very successful in the '50s but The CRTC approved CHUM's purchase of the CKLW stations from CUC Broadcasting. 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