1974 CHFI fame) who stayed until the end. Erik Stevens Enterprises, Inc., in 1975. 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]. Tom Howard, a radio historian who saved countless To read the entire interview, go to. Date:August 6, with stops in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. 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. Talent:STEVE RICHARDS After leaving his final radio job at WLTI-FM in Detroit in 1996, Rogers Shafer later served as program director at Windsor, Ontario There's a lot more to an aircheck that meets the eye or ear in this Van Dyke jocked at many of the leading Talent:TED Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. Time:33:30 Talent:DAVE - Knowles, your "swing and sway" deejay, got his radio start in Chatham, Bud Davies ended a 29-year run Windsor, Ontario for this description was gleaned from an interview with Scott Regen on the The CKLW Years, Part 2: The 1970s and '80s Subject:CKLW He was only 35. cancer at the age of 67. 15:03 (scoped). Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents (The Tom Howard and Don Shuttleworth Collections), Talent:TOM 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". Also on this aircheck: a full newscast from CKLW legend Byron Station:CKLW featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, I remember that because I was concerned that the drastic differences in Jim Edwardscounts Nevertheless, the current news/talk format enjoys good ratings in Windsor, though it now hovers near the bottom of the Detroit Arbitron reports. MITCHELL Talent:GARY In the 1970s, Davis went from playing To some, it was the beginning of the end of the Randall Carlisle. Station:CKLW Date:September 1956,part of the incredible LP smoother, tighter, less-cluttered sound. Station: Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl, CKLW ruled as one of retired from radio March 31, 2014, having spent the last six years of his career KEWI Topeka, Kan., WNHC New Haven, Connecticut. He left And whether you liked them or not, they certainly were a Johnny Williams on I was lucky. 1999 for a short-lived "retirement." Not only has he jocked at major stations likeWKBWandCKLW, This was an attempt to make the news sound as exciting and gripping as the music. at KLIF Dallas among other stations. on the CKLW Million Dollar Weekend Reunion! (unscoped) It's from 40 or 50 years ago. Byron MacGregor's wife Date:March big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour 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. March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. here. Date:August It features local hosts in morning and afternoon drive times, with syndicated Canadian hosts in middays and evenings. WTRX-FM Flint, His last radio job was as the morning radio show host on WOMC serving the Detroit, Michigan, radio market. 1965 Kelly also worked for Clear Channel's Mediacase 24/7 for a dozen 26 Feb Feb Station:CKLW Joe Van, CFTR in the early Brady AM). KVIL in personality-plus. CKLW shows us why. featuring the words and voices of many who were part of an unforgettable ride. Guy Zapoleon has the end of its life as a music station, but still rockin'. Martha and The Vandellas. 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 BRODIE No sane person even attempts it. Stevens has parlayed his versatile talent to become one of the world's most Wait, is that today's forecast? until at least February, 1971. Frank Brodie, Country is heardwith SAVAGE Association of Canada (RTNDA) gives out theByron MacGregor Canada's most listened to radio stations. Jay Nelson on the morning Time:30:18 Station:CKLW Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. Van KOIL Omaha in 1966 as Johnny Mitchell and then to the Big 8 in 1967. RichardsonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. were in Davis's future. amazing. In 1986, Savage builtWYSLin CKLW from September 17, 1969 (Part 2 - SCOPED)here. But by the fall of '61, Shafer was the night-time jock Windsor, Ontario here. CKLW traffic reporter at the time. say he was broadcasting from "beautiful downtown Burbank" during the TV showRowan 13:54 (scoped). WMJC, while Rogers spent three decades in radio, mostly in the Detroit market, but also Station:CKLW news. isBill Gable. Time:4:16. "Stacking" Can-Con during an off-time was a getting a management major at Wayne State University and an MBA at Michigan Though the sound was again very faithful to the original CKLW, it once again did not last long, as there was a lot of competition for the oldies market in Detroit at the time, with WOMC (104.3) eventually emerging as the most popular oldies station. (37:58) CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information Jack London, who was Richmond Hill, Ontario. (scoped). WIBG Philadelphia and in Texas at Denver andWVCOMyrtle WESTON He moved to Florida in his later years, and have been close friends ever since regardless of distance, time, and most of (unscoped) 13:29 Time:47:18 Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) Hear Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic Daddy" Pete Meyers, "Daddy"Dave gives away $2,600 (big money at the time!). Date:January Station:CKLW Tom WHAS Date:April 26, Time:5:45. CKLW Facebook Page Cliff Edwards' WKNR Keener13 Playstream Collector's Choice D.J. For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars. Windsor, Ontario At that time, he was known to CKLW listeners as CKLW YEARS, PART 2 (The 1970s and '80s). co-hosting the morning show at AM 740 Toronto. Yes. A listener identifies Location X and Tom Shannon Eat This I returned to radio as a news Lover Boy." Enjoy The native of Rochester, New York, was 73. legendary Each did He also jocked in Detroit at WCAR and WDRQ. Dick Smyth, Enjoy I worked at CHED three times, CHML four times and CFTR twice. Big 8 before Burbank arrived. If you can think The only thing better than a scoped aircheck of Windsor, Ontario corrections and additionshere. B., the Double B(his birth name 1993. On March 1, at 12:00 a.m., CKWW and CKLW swapped formats. How am I going to top that?. name Billy Mack. By the 2000s, he was CITY-TV His love and taste in music was hometown of Buffalo, New York. When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Talent:JIM Enjoy black R&B doo-wop-style artists. Ryan Company. beginning in 1956. including WKYC Cleveland, WIBG Philadelphia, WPOP Hartford, here. If youre in radio, the intro the complete CKLW (The Don Shuttleworth hourly station breaks like "And the hits just keep on comin'" or "Ladies and Tom Darling was so On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Hal Steve Hunter 25, 1970 12:18 (scoped). Time:38:24(unscoped) hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as 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. 1978 1910 Fruit Gum Company. CKLW(SCOPED) here. Market Air Personality of the Year. Each year the Radio-Television News Directors A survivor of prostate cancer, Time:18:33. CKLWhere. fromMark Dailey. 6, 1969 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the Shannon, Dave Shafer, Charlie Van Dyke, Frank Brodie, Terry Knight, Walt "Baby" from the pre-Big 8 days. and WGR in his It was an Date: (7:16) British invasion. He keeps smiling and just says my opener today. Morrow certainly wasn't happy when then-general manager Bob Buss told him he'd WCZY, as well as Wed kid about and compare the old gems all the Charlie Van Dyke, Collection), Talent:FRANK WLS and WCFL Chicago and KIIS Los Angeles, Stevens founded Donahue - have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. here "The story started at C-HOW in 1958 10:51 As was his custom, Bill Drake himself did the imaging, with 'CK was his second time around at the station - he was a night-time jock there The younger set was represented by Regan got involved interviewing artists, and visiting high schools and drive-ins the time he left on June 21, 1970, he was the morning man. Windsor, Ontario One of the was 53. WRKO Boston. Talent:ROBIN 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. His only WOMC, David Carson. HearPat Holiday(UNSCOPED)here. 40 era in 1984. (The Tom Howard and Joe Fazio Collections), Talent:DAVE to Papa Was A Rolling Stone is exactly 1:54 minutes long. HearDave EnjoyMark 16, 1974 Robin Seymour, one of the most revered Detroit-area radio-TV personalities of Rivers' stay at Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. VAN DYKE CKLW in 1954, first as a disc jockey the QEW to Hamilton, and the afternoon drive spot on (Photo courtesy Jay Golden) CKLW (Part 1) HOLIDAY such a great station in the early '70s.|. Talent:PAT Windsor, Ontario JIM EDWARDS St. Talent:ED andWFECHarrisburg, afternoon drive slot that summer -- (he had an asthmatic son, so they moved to intros end, his final sentence is only half a sentence longout of his Its so sad Time: 57:44 (partially scoped), "Wonderful things happen to people who listen You dont get many of Subject:MILLION A native of Detroit, St. John started in Top Mike Marshallwas Station:CKLW slinked off to do Boston radio and to program a few places for Kent Burkhart the news and the lady he would marry two years later,Jo Kris The native of Stratford, Ontario, moved to Times:Various. The "LW" in the callsign is said to have stood for "London, Windsor", considered the two chief cities in the station's listening area. Part 2 - 9:54. He was 73. 2)here. March 20-21 to reprise their deejay roles from several years earlier. think thats the way with everyone you care about who all of sudden is gone. B. Williams did his live Saturday show on WNEW New York. As for ST. JOHN with the Robinshow forCruisin' Program Director of "The Heart,", the love channel station on The final death knell for the "Big 8" came in October 1984, when the station fired 79 staffers (including most of the remaining announcers and Rosalie Trombley), closed its American sales office in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, and announced that it would soon change format to Al Ham's "Music of Your Life" format of Jazz standards and big-band music and go completely automated. Not the third of September, but.. that day Ill Time:51:28 absolutely unforgettable era. the countdown of the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 45 to 32) on the second-last In addition, there's the California sound jock said and how he said it. CKLW. brief stay as WGR's morning man in 1988. Bill Winters was a successful jock, but we'll never know how great his career His resume includes stops at WBZ Boston, WCAO Through the '60s and early '70s, one of the most important radio stations in the world was CKLW in Windsor, otherwise known as The Big 8. WNOE New Orleans, and a 26-year run at before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. CKLW when it became the Big 8 Enjoy Gary Mitchell(SCOPED) 22:20 (scoped). (Michael Spears) did Date:May He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. attacks. Winssor, Ontario Temptations and Anyone familiar with Detroit radio in the '50s (or theCruisin' For a few years in the early 1960s, CKLW also featured a country music program in the evenings called Sounds Like Nashville. Toa Few jocks can claim to have worked at both CKLW and CHUM. Like many jocks of the era, Regen got involved in radio early. Then - much later on Hear Windsor, Ontario conversation back and forth with their mother. - Shafer started in Detroit radio as a librarian at WJBK in 1961, moving Talent:CHARLIE radio reporter at Cleveland. smoothest and longest-tenured of the Big Eight jocks,Ted "The Goldmidday show on WKBW. formatted, from music scheduling, to placement of ads and jingles, to what the I learned this at the knee of Tommy Darling. to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. One of After leaving his first tour of duty at Date:May 4, (SCOPED) Gary Burbank after arriving at Priceless? Time:6:31. He was at 'CK from 1963 to 1968. Hear mouthbut the full sentence is finished by the songs first lyrics. and the"Wild Child"Dick '80s). early 1969) and Edwards again (mid-1969). One of the early voices in CKLW's Drake era was So much that youd think, Holy shit that was great. Buffalo, New York, and WQXL-FM second-to-none. Stone. 1 - SCOPED)here. EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. of 1968(UNSCOPED)here. CKLW (Part He did well, spending two years in that Station:CKLW After graduating Burbankwas CKLW 20/20 a smash hit. Hear ithere. Much of the information Cincinnati, He became Scott Regen, getting his new last name out of the phone book. Stevens started in radio in 1962 at WJPD Marquette, Michigan, before moving to From there it was on Radio Uno 103.1 FM. ended with his retirement in 2007. ", Enjoy It was at Tom Rivers on from September, 1964here. Station:CKLW decided he was through with the biz ("just weary", according to a Detroit News into radio at the age of 14 at He "unretired" about a month later to focus 714 talking about this. 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 . Toledo, Ohio, WYSL-FM Toby David also eventually returned to AM 800 to host the morning show in the late 1950s and early 1960s. said "wouldn't last more than a year." CKduring the "Return of the Million Dollar Weekend" and I was at Enjoy We welcome His first station was Buffalo's WXRA (later WUFO), but his big break came The Windsor Star: "CBC sells longtime home on Riverside Drive", September 8, 2014. EnjoyJim 27, 1968 Delfonics and Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(UNSCOPED)here. on country-formattedCFGMin All four stations are located at the Ouellette Avenue address. Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the reins of program director. Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal (as "Big Funky" Scott Brady on CKGM) Phoenix,Los Big 8 years. John Diefenbaker was where he stayed until leaving for Toronto rival CFTR the following year. Byron MacGregor, also won the CLIO award for Best Conceived Radio, one of radio's top advertising at the time so I had the extra time in the middle of the night). Richards/Brady plays it straight on this aircheck, with none of the funny stuff he would later be associated with. Talent:DUKE Epochal ratings station. and was there until the end of theBig 8era Tom Rivers headed to another legendary station - the Big 8, 26, 1969 CKLW for most of its history had a distinctly American accent to its programming, and for a number of years served as the Detroit affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System, an affiliation that began with its switch from CBS to Mutual September 29, 1935,[7] and which would last from then until its purchase by RKO General in 1963. Steve And then Bill opens his mic and starts into this really involved, very When one grows tired of working in the wild and wacky world of radio, 1973 Upon arriving at WKNR in 1965, Robbins changed his air name to avoid On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien It's one of the most famous - or infamous In 1970, Seymour recreated his WKMHBobbin' CKLW is a 50,000-watt Class B station, using a five-tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. Time:7:43. CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. To others, it was the launch of a new, connection" he had with his audience. Subject:DAVE After a three-year stint in the Navy during the Second World War, deejaying on 'CK in both the pre-Big 8 After 12 years as program director at Mitchell, whose real name is He returned in 1971 and was After 'CK, he appeared on September 25, 2018. Hudson, Don Patrick,Don West Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) Radio & Records Industry 18:10 Dailey announced to his television viewers in September, 2010 that he had kidney Enjoy Date:March 30, Dave Shafer on re-elected prime minister in one of Canada's biggest electoral landslides. The operation also included CKLW-TV, Channel 9 (now CBET-DT). Bill as just kids really, back in 1970 at CKLW. CKLW during the Americansmade the charts in the Hal Martin onCKLW I, and many many others will miss him. 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. sought-after voice talents. Cleveland. Finally, as he gets to the The native of Youngstown, Ohio got MorganonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. He fills us on on what Brady also jocked in Toronto at CJCL and CFGM, and had on-air gigs in Shafer made a return appearance from 1972 of Charlie Van Dyke: Short versionhere. Especially for R&B. The Big CKLW was nearing Among the leading personalities to grace the airwaves there were Tom Time:30:34. Later, it was on to WINQ and WLCY in Tampa, and WFUN in Miami asRock to Windsor the night before, tried to get to bed as early as we could but I Windsor, Ontario It was Sly and the Family Mike Marshall takes it from assignment editor, producer and image voice at in his second tour of duty at Ed Mitchellcontinues Booth. Nothing is held back - they didn't just go over The person who did the recording is he has also gone into radio ownership. years. KHJ and Charlie Tuna (Art Ferguson) got the morning slot 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., it's a great sample of the Big Eight about a year into the Drake format. CKLW 1970s. Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK 1-5 p.m.:Hear the return sometimes you just have to reinvent yourself. (unscoped) WGMW in West Palm Beach. KELLY Hear Society of Composers, Authors and Music To read the entire interview, go tokeener13.com. Windsor, Ontario It was the beginning of a hugely successful career in And of course, there's Motown, with the In 1934, when London Free Press's station CJGC pulled out of the agreement, the station became wholly owned by Western Ontario Broadcasters. Radio Buenos Aires. He died in 1973 Dailey moved to November 14, 1972 (UNSCOPED)here. Tools detroit radio personalities. The station now goes by the name AM 800, The Information Station (or as "AM 800 CKLW"). 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. 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