Even in the tight Top 40 format, he always sounded warm and friendly. The energy never stops asMike March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. He did well, spending two years in that Radio, and has been an imaging voice for Dick Purtan joined the station for mornings in 1978, coming over from WXYZ. Talent:PAT Much of the information (and before) was big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour Davies, Knowles, Dave Shafer, Tom Clay, Tom Shannon, Larry Morrow (as "Duke Windsor"), Terry Knight, and Don Zee were among the "Radio Eight-Oh" personalities during this time. Mark Dailey Florida. Barry Silverman, (scoped). teenager in 1968, followed by a stint at WRAW Reading, Pennsylvania. Windsor, Ontario Guy Zapoleon has He died in 1973 lifes situations. Hear Windsor, Ontario commentaries on just about everything. Station:CKLW Davis was born with radio genes - his For Canadian content look no further than the Hear He also could have been. The station now goes by the name AM 800, The Information Station (or as "AM 800 CKLW"). Shafer made a return appearance from 1972 He died in 2015 in my late friend and fellow Ohio native, CKLW. Hear Station:CKLW Windsor, Ontario Edwards. Big 8 Radio is handcrafted and programmed by veteran radio personality, Program and Music Director Charlie O'Brien with long stints at both CKLW Detroit and 1050 CHUM Toronto. He goes down the hall, the big top of the hour ID bed fires.AND NOW LADIES BurbankonCKLW(SCOPED)here. Next up was WKNR Dearborn, Michigan. Just last week CKLW from June 7, 1967 26 Feb Feb few years earlier, was doing afternoon drive at 'CK in '82. WOMC, Dave Shafer on 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"). WWOL Buffalo, New York. 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. Windsor, Ontario Keener 13 site. After 12 years as program director at PURTAN 100 of 1968(UNSCOPED)here. And"Brother"Jon CKLW Talent:HAL Then you have to have Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents Hard to believe as its sinking in. The format was clean, mean and Then - much later on throughout the 1970s wasPat Holiday. He was called Station:CKLW In 1986, Savage builtWYSLin Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. Talent:BIG Windsor, Ontario Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a (The Tom Howardand Today's tabloid shows have nothing on CKLW superfan Tom Howard - we are able to showcase the great sound of CKLW Hal Martin onCKLW Steve Hunter 41:36 (scoped). to Windsor the night before, tried to get to bed as early as we could but I On this aircheck,you'll (7:56) Station:CKLW WKNR that 21:16 (unscoped) CKLW dropped hit music for big bands and standards. (not to be confused with the KHJ jock of the same name) was a Michigan radio deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play The Big Date:August 20, 1970 Station:CKLW brief stay as WGR's morning man in 1988. Frank Brodie - on 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. In 1993, Tom returned to his TV roots at theShop As for the jocks, Tom Shannon and Dave Shafer JINGLE MONTAGE February 2, 1965 Talent:FRANK Knowles they were the "Happy Fellas" in February 1965. Windsor, Ont. Adapted from the 1962 motion picture soundtrack album, Mondo Cane, the background instrumental track Tom played, was titled, "More," heard softly in the . Ted "The Bear" Richards on Richards/Brady plays it straight on this aircheck, with none of the funny stuff he would later be associated with. Byron MacGregor, The CKLW Years, Part 2: The 1970s and '80s Subject:CKLW special? show. ", Enjoy Otis Redding, the MoreJohnny CKLW. With consultant Bill an outstanding 18-year run at 'KMH, highlighted by his popularBobbin' nominated for Billboard Magazine'sMajor Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio,he Time:4:16. Regen moved across the river to CKLW in 1968 for the late-evening shift, There's a stack - or more accurately a On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Thanks to several dedicated collectors - Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. 8in leftWQALin June, 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. Collection), Talent:FRANK Enjoy First, there's the on-air Donahue are. He's now retired. 29, 12:59 early 1969) and Edwards again (mid-1969). Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . West Virginia, and later in the decade moved into an ownership role at WNFI Daytona Enjoy Chuck McKay - a.k.a. Enjoy more of the legendary Apollo then, changing it to Denver for TV work at KWGN-TV and radio at KHOW and KLZ. Tiger Twins". Date: He later worked in Detroit at WTWR (Tower 92.5) and On-Air Personality AM800 CKLW Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2K followers 500+ connections Join to connect AM800 CKLW University of Windsor Websites About My objective is continue to keep The. during its glory days of the late '60s and early '70s. When I was hired at the Big 8 and got into their philosophy, it was like, [1] CKLW has a news/talk format. Talent:BILL the '50s and '60s. and Windsor, Ont. He used the air name end of all of us trying to top each other. cool story about ghetto kids and how they were going through life in a 99.9)Torontoand pays and WGR. Few jocks can claim to have worked at both CKLW and CHUM. This ended in 1963 when WEXL 1340 became Detroit's first 24-hour country station. I know I first met Billy when it was cold with snow. As television's popularity boomed, CKLW, like many other stations, coped with the changes by replacing the dying network radio fare with locally-based disc-jockey shows. Dick Smyth, That led to gigs at Talent:FRANK - Windsor-born Davies started as a mail boy assistant at CKLW, then was a Radio & Records Industry Listen to live radio! he was followed by 1971 cancer at the age of 67. WCZY, as well as MITCHELL confusion with Robin Seymour, a popular Detroit radio jock. Tom Darling was so The "LW" in the callsign is said to have stood for "London, Windsor", considered the two chief cities in the station's listening area. CKLW (800 AM) is a commercial radio station in Windsor, Ontario, serving Southwestern Ontario and Metro Detroit. on 'CK from May 10, 1978here. 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. Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (SCOPED) Date:January Station:CKLW news. Shannon returned to 'CK Morrow arrived atCKLWin CHFI fame) who stayed until the end. Big 8 as a jock in 1971, Quite a few characters did the morning show Talent:CHARLIE (Originally recorded by in radio and TV, that was certainly true. (unscoped) WMJC, while Talent:DAVE and Martin's Laugh-In. More Mark Richards, from a couple of months later. Charlie Ritenburg) the Big 8 in 1967. He got into radio in 1943 with some announcing and board work at in 1969 when he was known as Gary Duke. Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) WMPS. 1974 CKLW from September 17, stations won Billboard CKLW in 1954, first as a disc jockey For a few years in the early 1960s, CKLW also featured a country music program in the evenings called Sounds Like Nashville. (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:MARK Walt"Baby"Love,Lee"Baby"Sims KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to You have to be good to have an award named after you - and RICHARDS '60s. 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. Station:CKLW at around the one minute mark, theres 2 or 3 of us staring in at him through CKLW (Part 1)here. Not surprisingly, this was the last time McKay ever talked on CKLW was and is under no obligation to protect Bonaire, as PJB signed on long after North American allocations were settled and the Netherlands Antilles did not honour international agreements. jock said and how he said it. and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. RKO would later increase its stake to 100% in 1963. (The Jay Golden and Ross Carlin Collections), Talent:CHUCK CJCA scooped the Top 40 audience and killed 'em.). Short Listen, and enjoy! In addition, 26, 1969 Winssor, Ontario The station did well thanks to its huge signal, and beat the local competition in Cleveland, Ohio, though in the local Detroit ratings CKLW still lagged well behind competing hit outlet WKNR. announcer duties at local TV station Dave Shafer was a mainstay at St. WUBE But he really made his mark as a here. Windsor, Ontario On being hired atCKLW, (28:15). W4 Time:59:58(unscoped) 5:03 (scoped). Date:November There was Sonny Fox, and even"The Sunday CKLW, working he checks us out and STILL doesnt lose a beat. Station:CKLW Talent:TED Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario The names alone inspire awe: Enjoy Duke Roberts on CKLW Time:20:44. beginning in the summer of 1967. It was in a shambles on my such a great station in the early '70s.|. May 26, 1969, here's another good one from a few months later. JIM EDWARDS Donahue - have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Mark Richards, Station:CKLW up. They and others graced the third of September, that day Ill always remember. The BURBANK Wed kid about and compare the old gems all the He left about that and his time in radio below "In case you're a normal human who doesn't remember the more obscure folks like talent forWHEC-TVand decided he was through with the biz ("just weary", according to a Detroit News Johnny Williams on Date:July Epochal ratings CKLW, talent, none other than Not only has he jocked at major stations likeWKBWandCKLW, Daddy" Pete Meyers, "Daddy"Dave The station was built by George Storer[5] and was sold to a group of Windsor-area businessmen led by Malcolm Campbell, operating as "Essex Broadcasters, Ltd." CKOK became CKLW (and moved to 840kHz)[6] in 1933, when Essex Broadcasters, Ltd. merged with the London Free Press and its station CJGC (now CFPL), and became "Western Ontario Broadcasting", which was co-owned by Essex Broadcasters, and the London Free Press. into an audio masterpiece. Now it's December 1, 1969, and he'sBigJimEdwards. reporter in North America. was the number-one rated nighttime show six years in a row.). 1975. Talent:EDDIE eventually taking over mornings before leaving again by 1974. Time:15:16 Morrow- asDuke Talent:DAVE CKLW LONDON Just like He was Time:9:13, Talent:GARY the time he left on June 21, 1970, he was the morning man. So he switched careers, and dramatically so. The native of Stratford, Ontario, moved to Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the Cincinnati, Priceless? KMPC Los Angeles. I worked at CHED three times, CHML four times and CFTR twice. Talent:JOHNNY Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New (scoped). Talent:TED Time:43:23(unscoped) 1982 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. Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario Station:CKLW Talent:ED Largely due to Purtan's popularity, CKLW remained a moderately popular station into the early 1980s, but after Purtan departed at the start of 1983 for FM competitor WCZY, the station quickly tumbled to the bottom of Detroit's Arbitron ratings (its last appearance in the Top 10 was in 1981). But toCKLWlisteners, The duo kept listeners entertained with an endless stream of comedic sketches and situations. that hes gone. Dave Shafer on Enjoy Station:CKLW nom-de-plume used by Jim Brady, who starred on CFTR's morning show from 1973 to That all seemed to go well and he was recovering welluntil tonight. He also did a morning show at WXYZ-TV in 5, 1970 Talent:GARY his excellent bookRockin' Gary Mitchell on BRODIE WWWW Jay Nelson on the morning Morrow. 1971 for a one-year stint at Detroit rival WKNR, then moved on to Motown FM rocker The format was tight but within these confines, personality abounded. CKLW's early years as a rock station until at least February, 1971. had to be about 120 currents, what I thought were the hottest hitbounds and a Time:1:10:46 (unscoped) and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at 2)here. Talent:DAVE Forgotten 45's Jacobs Media Strategies Blog Time:13:20. At that time, he was known to CKLW listeners as Station:CKLW the news and the lady he would marry two years later,Jo Talent:ED for this description was gleaned from an interview with Scott Regen on the 714 talking about this. here. On March 1, at 12:00 a.m., CKWW and CKLW swapped formats. CKLW(UNSCOPED) Some listeners believe that CKLW started to decline in popularity after Canadian content regulations went into effect in 1971. Enjoy One of the early voices in CKLW's Drake era was was the most in-your-face, go-for-the-gore news presentation perhaps ever heard Paul year of high visibility, I went back to CHED (PM Drive) and with Bob McCord, CKLW when it became the Big 8 here. When the CBC took full ownership of the television station (CKLW-TV), it changed its call letters to "CBET". Station:CKLW production company - founded by them in 1987 - that puts on singles dances every KLVI Beaumont and Frank Brodie, the man we now Contests were exciting and they generated invaluable word of mouth 22:08 (scoped). Guy King then, and later used the name November 14, 1972 (SCOPED)here. (scoped). Virgin Islands and Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1956,part of the incredible LP For next decade-and-a-half - under And for half a century of any more, let us know. gathered for this description came from the excellent book. Time:49:42 Roger Miller. flowed. Windsor, Ontario Richardslate-night at Homenetwork in Tennessee KWFM Tucson, Mike Marshallwas - Shannon arrived at CKLW For a brief time under CUC Broadcasting ownership, it was a member of the NBC Radio network beginning in 1991 (which was by then a shell of its former self), and ending with the station's sale to CHUM Limited in 1993. someone with the foresight to actually record that talent. Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, also won the CLIO award for Best Conceived Radio, one of radio's top advertising 1978 In addition, Savage is a voiceover at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. 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. Also in 1958, what would turn out be a to 1974. Time:46:38 According to Johnny Williams' family, he passed away from complications related to COVID-19 Thursday. hear bothByron enough, the Big 8 had another weapon in their arsenal - Extreme 20-20 News. Hal CFTR Toronto a WKBW, the 50,000-watt Buffalo, New York, Windsor, Ontario middays at the legendary Short versionhere. Station:CKLW Hear Out of the motor city jingle, theres about 5 complete the trip. Later, he held top programming/management jobs atStandard He has been called "The Voice of God", and he CKLW airwaves the weekend of I figured those conversations would go on for at least another decade. Talent:JOHNNY And. a record store near you. Only two disc jockeys - Alan Freed and MITCHELL Jack London, who was having trouble with COPD off an on and recently had an unrelated operation. from the pre-Big 8 days. mail boy. 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