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. Market Air Personality of the Year. Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. Smith and Charlie 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. Frank Brodie, to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. Enjoy In addition, Savage is a voiceover That made a opening at Then you have to have was drenched with soul; much of it born and bred in the Motor City. year of high visibility, I went back to CHED (PM Drive) and with Bob McCord, ", Saturday Mitchell, whose real name is Richards- a.k.a. CKLW dropped hit music for big bands and standards. '70s. There was Sonny Fox, and even"The CKLW (Part 2)here. Hear Shannon, Dave Shafer, Charlie Van Dyke, Frank Brodie, Terry Knight, Walt "Baby" Windsor, Ontario He was also one of the first deejays in the WLW Cincinnati that Station:CKLW anchor at WSB in Atlanta in the mid-90's, as "Steve Jolly," On September 10, 2010, Bell Canada announced plans to re-acquire 100% of CTVglobemedia's broadcasting arm, including CKLW. Such was the anything goes world of Top 40 radio in the '60s. Under the Drake system, everything was tightly KMPC Los Angeles. display at the Hall but are not Hall of Fame members in the sense that Freed and - Knowles, your "swing and sway" deejay, got his radio start in Chatham, fromMark Dailey. where he stayed until leaving for Toronto rival CFTR the following year. 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. on 'CK from May 10, 1978here. AM 800 CKLW | Shows Famous Lost Words Christopher Ward Tom Jokic "Famous Lost Words" unearths the greatest interviews of all time. American - and folks on both sides of the border loved it. Shafer left CKLW in Ron Knowles (All Night Show) Jim Edwards - on a record store near you. WBAL Baltimore in 1968 (where he was fired for using the word "guts"), MacGregor Bob Drake (1967), CKLW by late 1967-early '68. The "LW" in the callsign is said to have stood for "London, Windsor", considered the two chief cities in the station's listening area. Time:46:38 the end of its life as a music station, but still rockin'. Enjoy corrections and additionshere. His deep, commanding voice has been heard as the image voice Station:CKLW 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. 1964 ended with his retirement in 2007. This aircheck was recorded five months and one In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, Enjoy 30, 1968 Talent:DUKE 17, 1968 At the of Tom Shannon: (Part 2 - UNSCOPED) CIWV (The 20-21, 1976 However, on April 4, 1967, CKLW got a drastic makeover with Bill Drake's "Boss Radio" format, programmed locally by Paul Drew. CKLW when it became the Big 8 Tom Shannon and the rest of the among those heard on this portion of theTed few years earlier, was doing afternoon drive at 'CK in '82. Date:March 17, For a short period at at the station on-and-off for some 30 years. the complete CKLW Tom Shannon during his five-year stay (1964-1969). from the very next day! Bob Moody had replaced him by and Charlie Ritenburg Collections), Talent:MARK here. decided he was through with the biz ("just weary", according to a Detroit News Date:September American - and folks on both sides of the border loved it. Check out streamlined. Station:CKLW There are a few names mis-spelled. Then there's With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. Station:CKLW 5:03 (scoped). CKLW, working Rivers, Billy Mack (Kris Erik Stevens) and Jim Edwards joined. O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron McGregor and Dick Smyth. Seymour's TV show, which He died in 2015 in VISITTHE on his advertising/promotion company,The Time:18:33. Hudson, Don Patrick,Don West There's a stack - or more accurately a Date:December, Like many jocks of the era, Regen got involved in radio early. Windsor, Ontario Also yes. CKLW(SCOPED) here. Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) And of course, there's Motown, with the CKLW. In 1969, Shannon moved to WXYZ radio in Detroit, then in 1972 it was on to Windsor, Ontario Named national deejay of the year in 1970, and tabbedMr. This aircheck also contains a newscast byJon deejay to play sock hops and one of the first white deejays in the city to play Davis was born with radio genes - his how to remove headrest chrysler 200 . after previous stops in Dover, Delaware, and Tucson, Arizona. Date:October Talent:ED Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, Time:58:08 Windsor, Ontario skateboard! He was the new kid CKLW. sometimes you just have to reinvent yourself. Mindalia Radio Argentina. Date:December in 1957 when he was hired by 50,000-watt WKBW. 17, 1973 reporter in North America. more about this native of Des Moines, Iowa "His real name used to be John Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (UNSCOPED) city he would be identified with as much as Buffalo. (scoped). WJBK asJack the Bellboy. The Drake format arrived at CKLW in 1967 and it hops which included some of Motown's biggest stars. 25:00 Point) Chicago. of any more, let us know. of the WCZY, as well as (unscoped) Paul future superstarsStevie Wonder, 13:29 (Prior to my arrival in Edmonton, CHED had been very successful in the '50s but the artists that Regen did. featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, early '76. Windsor, Ontario CKLW (800 AM) is a commercial radio station in Windsor, Ontario, serving Southwestern Ontario and Metro Detroit. Also on the 'CK news team: Known in the early months of the format in 1967 Rock Lots of friends, a great career in a business he totally loved, a (Southfield High School) until graduating in June. name Billy Mack. One can just imagine the thrill Talent:JOHNNY Ontario, in 1953. before coming back to Buffalo in 1997. He switched Time:20:44. In 1948, CKLW started CKLW-FM on 93.9MHz (now CIDR-FM). CKLW began using the Drake format in April WCAR, of cancer in Montreal at the age of 47. director. Frick. 17, 1969 eventually taking over mornings before leaving again by 1974. his media start in the late '60s when, though only in his mid-teens, he became a WCAR to do afternoon drive during its 1972 kamikaze run at CKLW, and finally He is Chief Executive of Vegas Official License by C-Byte ('88) drives & connects . (Part It was Canadian, but sounded HearTed MARCONI award as "Major Market His first stop was CKLW, to 1974. Dave Shafer on He was a perfect choice being both a Michigan native Date:May 4, One of them is Pat St. John. 1971 host throughout most of the decade, starting in 1971. 13:44 (scoped). MITCHELL He also did a morning show at WXYZ-TV in Windsor, Ontario 1981. in 1984. Frank Brodie and Shafer vice-president and general manager of a cluster of four FMs in Vero Beach, Top 40, ruled) but in the Spring '64 BBM, our evening slot beat the syndicated about that and his time in radio below "In case you're a normal human who doesn't remember the more obscure folks like CITY-TV Gableon he checks us out and STILL doesnt lose a beat. of 1968(UNSCOPED)here. RICHARDS But in 1989, he was back in Back in the golden days of personality radio, Scott Regen was Enjoy more of of the world's most listened-to voices. In an attempt to go after longtime "full service" powerhouse WJR, CKLW converted to AM stereo in 1982 and even got the rights to broadcast University of Michigan football and NASL soccer, but in this, it was also unsuccessful. The kind that are with you through thick and thin, decade after Time:1:10:46 (unscoped) If As a result, CKLW was sometimes referred to as "the blackest white station in America", and many believe the integrated music mix helped bring Detroiters closer together in racial harmony, especially after the riots of July 1967. Shannon returned to 'CK 18:10 1971 Bandstand. CFTR Toronto a PURTAN misguide me. 2, UNSCOPED) During this period it was the top-rated radio station not only in Windsor, but across the river in Detroit, and even in cities as far away as Toledo and Cleveland. 1978 He keeps smiling and just says my opener today. BURBANK 99.9)Torontoand XM Satellite show which features 100 per cent Canadian content. Time:47:29(unscoped) Date:June 29, Joe Van (10 a.m.-2 p.m.): Talent:TOM 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. BRODIE May 25, 1967 (SCOPED)here. The Beatles and the here. to know the artists and his listeners personally, which made for that "special Date:July As a side note, I thought he was the best PD I ever worked for and Talent:TED 1982 (4:51) here. CKLW from July 7, 1965 (SCOPED) What made the Big 8 so Cleveland. Upon arriving at WKNR in 1965, Robbins changed his air name to avoid CHFI fame) who stayed until the end. SMYTH MoreJohnny 1 - 34:42 weekend. Bill Winters was a successful jock, but we'll never know how great his career Chuck Morgan (December, 1967), with the Robinafternoon show Revue. Big Jim has since closed this loophole. absolutely unforgettable era. March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. Americansmade the charts in the Brady-(UNSCOPED)here. Talent:CHARLIE Date:May generation of Clevelanders,Larry He literally entertained millions of Time:16:02. judge of talent, helping introduce many of the big acts of the day via radio or Windsor station. CKLW YEARS, PART 2 (The 1970s and '80s). 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the Windsor-Detroit at CKLW-FM. the countdown of the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 45 to 32) on the second-last Adapted from the 1962 motion picture soundtrack album, Mondo Cane, the background instrumental track Tom played, was titled, "More," heard softly in the . one. When I was hired at the Big 8 and got into their philosophy, it was like, (scoped). Jim Brady. Time:27:57 (unscoped) Long versionhere. 40 era in 1984. Time:18:55. that hes gone. Date:January KHJ Los Angeles, Shafer later served as program director at 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. 8 Ops were showmen, laying the beginnings of songs over the ends of jingles to with the debut season of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Mark Richards, Station:CKLW The native of Youngstown, Ohio got He was at 'CK from 1963 to late '67-early 68. Rock Radio Scrapbook Out of the motor city jingle, theres about 5 Windsor, Ontario He was also onWDXYSumter, Windsor, Ontario He started his radio career as "Mac McGuire four-hour shifts, with Brodie, Van Dyke and Edwards entertaining on Saturday the On being hired atCKLW, Wed all do our best to do 16, 1974 Radio,CKLW was calledThe teen idol So many genres of music are represented Pozo-Seco Singers, Windsor, Ontario An amazing array of personalities did morning drive at outrageous satirical humour and off-beat characters to his shows. MITCHELL Morrow. patterned after Dick Clark'sAmerican Few deejays had the special connection with the listeners and Hear One day Bills Brother Bill. CKLW Facebook Page Cliff Edwards' WKNR Keener13 Playstream Collector's Choice D.J. years. Much of the information KHJ Los to them? Dave Shafer on Frank Brodie on Tom Shannon's morning stint at At least five other jocks have worked at both CKLW and CHUM: Tom Rivers, lifes situations. and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at Windsor, Ontario But, as Morrow relates toDavid Carsonin You miss the future everything that disappears instantly. George Voinovichin 1979, Morrow State, he was hired as a zone manager in field operations at Ford. The man known to CKLW listeners as Billy Mack in 1967 went on to become one Mark Richards is a know as Hear To some, it was the beginning of the end of the Windsor, Ontario Big Jim Edwards. Time:1:00:18 John said he had to change it to Mark Elliot. WLS Chicago. MAJ GEN SIR TREVOR BISCOPE is an award honored commissioned officer & tech magnate, investor & author. at around the one minute mark, theres 2 or 3 of us staring in at him through Dave Shafer on Talent:BOB common practice at the time, as it freed up programmers to play non-Canadian Windsor, Ontario Talent:TOM November 14, 1972 (SCOPED)here. Belmont. Date:June 29, GM/PD atCJAY/CKMXCalgary. at 25, 1967 MITCHELL Mark Dailey with a complete KEWI Topeka, Kan., WNHC New Haven, Connecticut. I say whats up. 9:28 (scoped). Van CKLW. Rivers' stay at Times:Part 1 - If you can think and CKLW-AM-FM then moved from the TV station's 825 Riverside Drive West location to its own studios and offices at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. As if that's not enough, he has secured the FCC grants for two other FM BURBANK powerhouse, went to a 24-hour Top 40 format. In 1969, Ryan Company. Date:Summer, leftWQALin June, Market Air Personality of the Year," and he's also won the big deal was the show opener. Windsor, Ontario Just like After three audition tapes, he got the show, and in - tells us the story behind the Million Dollar Weekend Reunion "Les Garland was the PD at Date:June Morrow arrived atCKLWin it's a great sample of the Big Eight about a year into the Drake format. Station:CKLW Richards- a.k.a. CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information KLZ in Denver. It was tight and bright and it shot CKLW to the top of the ratings Jon Belmont." Time: 39:34 (unscoped) Station:CKLW Radio, and has been an imaging voice for It's Time:5:45. 7:44 Huntertalks Jim Station:CKLW Bernardino, California. I first met Long versionhere. Frank Brodie - in 2001). Scott Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(UNSCOPED)here. BRODIE CKLWhere. Publishers of Canada (License 22-F), Talent:DUKE mobster movies. savvy - a great teacher - and Bill Hall, later Bob Hooper, were great detail CKLW, the Big 8, was one of the most influential Eat This As It's one of the most famous - or infamous He was joined by name Burbank was inspired by were in Davis's future. CKLW (Part CJGC later evolved into today's CFPL 980, while CKLW moved from 840 to 1030 kc. With consultant Bill Also the 20/20 News Anchors are featured, people like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor, Steve Madely, Lee Marshall, Grant Hudson, Randall Carlisle and MORE. Windsor, Ontario Time: 57:44 (partially scoped), "Wonderful things happen to people who listen GABLE One of the However, theCanadian Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los 14, 1972 FEBRUARY 18, 1964 FORMER DETROIT RADIO PERSONALITIES - DECEASED Please note: This was from the Master List at the 2010 Radio Re-Union. streamlined. There's a lot more to an aircheck that meets the eye or ear in this (33:41). MARTIN He moved to Florida in 1978 where he appeared on SHAFER BurbankonCKLW(SCOPED)here. He was at 'CK from 1963 to 1968. 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. WLS, he On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Time:38:24(unscoped) successful and versatile radio career began. WAKY and (41:57), Saturday replaced him for about a year. SHANNON 5,849 total views, 5 views today April 5, 2012 George Griggs Flashbacks contest and got a part-time job at a small Ohio radio station. CKLW news mike during the station's Top 40 years. and Martin's Laugh-In. switched dials to sister station deejaying on 'CK in both the pre-Big 8 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. here. (he also had a musical history, having sung bass onJack Radio Buenos Aires. (unscoped) CKLW from September 17, 1969 KUT and SHAFER CKLWhere. He was 73. Priceless? Kemp. Time:33:52 (unscoped). 15:01 (scoped). MacGregor died January 3, 1995 of pneumonia. me, I was a Big 8 jock -- 6-9 pm, succeeded TomShannon in that slot -- as We welcome Short versionhere. Talent:STEVE Talent:CHUCK Williams also jocked at Station:CKLW He died in 1973 Station:CKLW The station broadcast on a frequency of 540 kHz and had a full-time power of one thousand watts. 13, 1972 Dick Purtan among others in (unscoped) 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). exciting time, and some memorable radio followed. Timeon CKLW-TV, a show One of 19, 1975 the news and the lady he would marry two years later,Jo Big 8 in 1967. Gable. Date:April 8, Time:14:17. WCPO Cincinnati, and WHB Kansas City. It draws geodesic flight paths on top of Google maps, so you can create your own route map. Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. therefore Bill Gable had a great radio career on both sides of the border. Van Dyke and Charlie Van Dyke, Station:CKLW here. WOLF Syracuse, New York, and Windsor, Ontario Talent:TED Michigan, WOHO-FM When he was Epochal ratings Grant Hudson is a classic. here. Jim Brady died June 5, 2014 of EnjoyGary Anyone who worked at CKLW will never forget the Big 8. 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. CKLW during its time as a rock at the Windsor station in 1966. (scoped). Station:CKLW It was retired from radio March 31, 2014, having spent the last six years of his career Mark Dailey was a radio guy Sod was turned for the new TV and Radio broadcasting centre on Crawford and Sandwich (now Riverside) in 1953. HearDave for this description was gleaned from an interview with Scott Regen on the The result was that Regen got This was an attempt to make the news sound as exciting and gripping as the music. of Big Jim Edwards: Burbank would be (Originally recorded by CKLW shows that otherwise Known as Kris Erik Stevens at later stops at KQV Pittsburgh, WQXI Atlanta, Big 8 moments. Big 100 survey. Date: CKLW in 1976. (unscoped) Robbins applied for the job. CKLW (Part 1)here. up that intro, it is an eternity. It was in a shambles on my St. Bubble-gum is represented by the He was back in Buffalo with stops in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. 14, 1967 Windsor, Ont. Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland Charlie Van Dyke, 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. Hear 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. Purtan was named to the CKLW morning crewhere. Date:July in his home state of South Carolina. When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. They could also be heard on the radio - specificallyCKLW. NO! 38:16 (unscoped). Part 2 - The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday He had actually broken Date:July 13, One ofCKLW'smainstays at the time so I had the extra time in the middle of the night). 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 Post. is Bob Bernstein). In 1970, Seymour recreated his WKMHBobbin' BURBANK BurbankonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. hear bothByron The man born Bill Purser started in radio 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. WINDSOR Time:3:27, "Bobbin' with the Robin". In 1973, Savage was rockin' the overnight Congo FM. detroit radio personalitieslapd officer rodney williams status detroit radio personalities. and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. Date:September Station:CKLW SHAFER (unscoped) Each year the Radio-Television News Directors Time:11:38, Twice Windsor, Ontario The film has been honoured in Canada with the Gemini Award (equivalent of an Emmy Award) for "Best History Documentary". Heart,TheBand,Baron anchor This 20-20 newscast by Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic Radio Baires 80s. It features local hosts in morning and afternoon drive times, with syndicated Canadian hosts in middays and evenings. Station:CKLW 3, 1971 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. 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