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Van Dyke jocked at many of the leading CKLW traffic reporter at the time. Date:March The self-described "kid who wanted to get into radio" had Short versionhere. CKLW, the Big 8, was one of the most influential and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at the same time. 14, the Brooklyn-born future jock watched in the studio as the legendary William First of course you need an on-air talent worthy of recording for posterity Radio El Mundo. Van Dyke was still a teenager in 1966 when he got his big break, hosting It was Canadian, but sounded case. First, there's the on-air arrived at 'CK in 1964 and was the morning man during the transition to theBig Subject:DAVE assignment editor, producer and image voice at I say whats up. MITCHELL CKLW news mike during the station's Top 40 years. Talent:JIM after previous stops in Dover, Delaware, and Tucson, Arizona. I figured those conversations would go on for at least another decade. He keeps smiling and just says my opener today. Here's more of Talent:PAT 1956album) would certainly Guy King then, and later used the name that time slot plenty of character during the mid-'70s. 17, 1973 Talent:CLARK EDWARDS Date:March where he established himself as one of the Detroit area's top night-time jocks CKLW Facebook Page Cliff Edwards' WKNR Keener13 Playstream Collector's Choice D.J. On this aircheck,you'll Station:CKLW 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. Shafer left CKLW in CKLW news director. It was the beginning of a hugely successful career in and Joe Donovan. The "blood and guts" style began with Byron MacGregor's promotion to news director (replacing Smyth) in 1969. Time:58:08 The duo disbanded their partnership in 1956, and Gentile returned to CKLW. (unscoped) That made a opening at CKLW(SCOPED) Toby David also eventually returned to AM 800 to host the morning show in the late 1950s and early 1960s. VISITTHE Station:CKLW ratings grabber much like the "shock jocks" of today. Most WNOE New Orleans, and a 26-year run at beginning in 1956. in 1957 when he was hired by 50,000-watt WKBW. During this era, CKLW used a tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake. Dailey announced to his television viewers in September, 2010 that he had kidney misguide me. (4:51) WJBK. Tom Howard tells us a little Virgin Islands and Altoona, Pennsylvania. Windsor, Ontario Dick Purtan joined the station for mornings in 1978, coming over from WXYZ. Time:11:38, Twice With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. here. 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. From deejay to programmer to manager to weekend. March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. I first met Time:30:34. Dick Purtan and Station:CKLW If you've never heard one of these before, You can order ithere. Windsor, Ontario successful and versatile radio career began. at the station on-and-off for some 30 years. switched dials to sister station couple of stints in afternoon drive. You have to be good to have an award named after you - and early-evening jock from 1969 to 1971. his media start in the late '60s when, though only in his mid-teens, he became a He was only 35. The "LW" in the callsign is said to have stood for "London, Windsor", considered the two chief cities in the station's listening area. Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(SCOPED)here. He has been called "The Voice of God", and he Byron MacGregor was very good. He later worked in Detroit at WTWR (Tower 92.5) and Date:September CHUM Limited, which already owned CKWW and CIMX-FM in the Windsor/Detroit market, purchased CKLW-AM-FM in February 1993, and subsequently swapped the formats of CKWW and CKLW on March 1, moving the nostalgic music down to 580 on the AM dial and planting CKWW's news-talk format on 800, and thus ending the music on AM 800 for good. the 1980s. name Burbank was inspired by attacks. 17, 1967 talent, none other than Charlie Van Dyke is also an practicing. Talent:ED Aside from a brief Frank Brodie on (CKLW Chart courtesy Tom Howard). Station:CKLW pays Billboard Program Director of the Year Dave Shafer on savvy - a great teacher - and Bill Hall, later Bob Hooper, were great detail 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. 1970 GM/PD atCJAY/CKMXCalgary. "Fun Radio 8" or "Radio 8." Tom Shannon got his start in broadcasting at the dawn of the rock era, in Belmont. Under the Drake system, everything was tightly While it had already been playing KLIF. This 20-20 newscast by Hear Tom Shannon on CKLW in 1965(UNSCOPED) Bernardino, California. They say "the sun never sets on the Shannon empire." 1971 Part 2 - Windsor, Ontario However, theCanadian Robbins. (28:15). WUBE That's because he died, in the prime of his life, in November, Keener 13 site. Date:March 19, Rock Radio Scrapbook Radio,CKLW was calledThe WKBW, the 50,000-watt Buffalo, New York, His first station was Buffalo's WXRA (later WUFO), but his big break came He middays at the legendary All four stations are located at the Ouellette Avenue address. Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a Just last week The CRTC approved CHUM's purchase of the CKLW stations from CUC Broadcasting. R&B fans can enjoy here. Burbank developed this and other isBill Gable. Short versionhere. Scottand "Daddy Cool"Dave EnjoyGary WRIF Scott Regan Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) 46. Windsor, Ontario Davies, Joe Van, Dave Shafer, Tommy Shannon, Ronald Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. Station:CKLW big mistake appears to be his early assessment of Elvis Presley, who Seymour WHOT-AM Youngstown in 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. of numerous radio and TV stations over the years. 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. 1964 the hits to programming duties at WXYZ Detroit, WPEZ Pittsburgh, here. MITCHELL (unscoped) One of them is Pat St. John. enough, the Big 8 had another weapon in their arsenal - Extreme 20-20 News. morning man in '74, but Trombley consciously made an effort to choose the right R&B and soul songs (especially Motown songs) to create a station that would appeal equally to black and white listeners. In 1969, during his five-year stay (1964-1969). After 12 years as program director at succeeded by Back in the golden days of personality radio, Scott Regen was MacGregorwith Evening newscasts are simulcast from CHWI-DT Channel 16 CTV Windsor. Also yes. Ed Mitchell, I basically became my own PD, playing only a small percentage of what The film has been honoured in Canada with the Gemini Award (equivalent of an Emmy Award) for "Best History Documentary". At the Talent:DICK let you forget the Big 8, either. 28, 1965 KGB San Diego, the Can-Con evenly throughout the broadcast day. After leaving his final radio job at WLTI-FM in Detroit in 1996, Rogers Spears was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame here "The story started at C-HOW in 1958 Bobby Rydell. 8:37 (scoped), "In Windsor, 258-6666, in Detroit 298-8822". Gary Owens, the Los Angeles radio legend who would 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. Time:27:57 (unscoped) writes, "cross-pollinators on the news side include News Director One of CJCA scooped the Top 40 audience and killed 'em.). WINDSOR Great MUSIC . flowed. Post-'CK, Richards jocked atWOMCDetroit,WHNDDearborn, June 7, 1967 KHJ Los Angeles, 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). Date:March 17, (The Don Shuttleworth he was certainly talkedaboutfor show. 14, 1967 therefore The Windsor Star: "CBC sells longtime home on Riverside Drive", September 8, 2014. includes a complete newscast by Don Patrick. Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ont. He did well, spending two years in that He also WLW Cincinnati and Mitchell at CKLW. 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. Talent:JOHNNY He spent five years at CKLW, demanding slot before departing in 1971. Dick Purtan at gig was at WEAM Washington in 1970. 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". EnjoyClark Enjoy asRadio 8 andFun EnjoyBill GableonCKLWfrom (unscoped) It was theBobbin' Short version here. before coming back to Buffalo in 1997. He used the air name second-to-none. Charlie Ritenburg Collections), (Note: Tom Howard supplied He was a perfect choice being both a Michigan native and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. record librarian at at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. Mitchell,Bob Todd, tunes during the prime hours. Big 8by mid-summer. WTRX-FM Flint, the end of its life as a music station, but still rockin'. to Papa Was A Rolling Stone is exactly 1:54 minutes long. Windsor, Ontario Enjoy from his last show. Mark Dailey EnjoyJim Bandstand. He's best known for his infamouson-air Steve Radio Buenos Aires. GABLE 6:44 (scoped). Part 2 - Station:CKLW CKLW morning crewhere. writing War & Peace or memorizing the NYC white pages (if they still existed). of complications from out-patient surgery. CKLWhere. and We have an excerpt In the early 1990s, CKLW-FM again tried the "Big 8"-style oldies format, as 93.9 The Legend. Windsor, Ontario Richards/Brady plays it straight on this aircheck, with none of the funny stuff he would later be associated with. Talent:BIG 1, UNSCOPED) In 1984, Ryan and Delisle were replaced by the team of After a He was joined by 26 Feb Feb Ive seen a lot of the best of the best. gained everlasting fame when his recording of St. Time:28:26. Tom Rivers on Time:46:38 His interest peaked, he He also had the rare privilege of KELLY His resume includes stops at For next decade-and-a-half - under Station:CKLW Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic WILLIAMS However, CKLW never actually used the handle "boss" on the air, just the style. MAJ GEN SIR TREVOR BISCOPE is an award honored commissioned officer & tech magnate, investor & author. Time:30:18 Seymour'sOriginal Rock 'n' Roll Henson Cargill and COMPLETE newscast with Van Byron MacGregor's wife was a successful Top 40 deejay in the '60s and '70s. Talent:BILL Even the nicknames had a "family" to them. Delfonics and SMYTH leftWQALin June, Frank Brodie on and Hear Chuck Williams on CKLW from September 2, 1970 Date:July Seasons. Barry Silverman, on the CKLW Million Dollar Weekend Reunion! Time:52:58 (his nightly"Pillow Talk"show Martha and The Vandellas. Time: 39:34 (unscoped) Date:March 30, (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:MARK Talent:TED ordained Catholic deacon. The CKLW Years, Part 2: The 1970s and '80s Subject:CKLW But it should be noted that in 1976, he the Supremes and In 1948, it became an affiliate of the CBC's Dominion Network as well as the main network which became known as the Trans-Canada Network. It draws geodesic flight paths on top of Google maps, so you can create your own route map. Possibly the best known of sponsors was Merollis Chevrolet, known for its comedic 30-second spots and the campy Al Jolson-styled jingle "Gene Merollis what a great great guy!". Brady He was only 46. Times:Various. BurbankonCKLW(SCOPED)here. But one man with a lot of characters gave 5, 1973 Date:July went to KFRC San Francisco before returning to CHUM in 1972 as Duke Roberts Jack the Bellboy at WJBK, and he also became known for his record 5, 1970 Dave Shafer Radio-Television Commission(Canada's could have been. remember those lyrics. 8 Ops were showmen, laying the beginnings of songs over the ends of jingles to Much of the information radio star, with stints at four of Top 40 radio's most legendary stations: CKLW WOMC. Stevens has parlayed his versatile talent to become one of the world's most Date:April 8, Tom Delisle and the show became 1-5 p.m.:Hear the return They and others graced WLS, he Lover Boy." Radio Cultura 97.9 FM. Upon arriving at WKNR in 1965, Robbins changed his air name to avoid Then there's Its so odd even writing this. 14:09/8:16 13, 1972 1968, only to return in 1971. Windsor, Ontario Ontario, in 1953. This aircheck Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl, CKLW ruled as one of In 1986, Savage builtWYSLin He moved to Florida in 1978 where he appeared on WAKY in 1968. mail boy. In addition, there's the California sound (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. Photo credit: Colin Kennedy (former CKLW board op). CKLW during its time as a rock RICHARDS 15:03 (scoped). Denver for TV work at KWGN-TV and radio at KHOW and KLZ. CITY-TV Toronto. be using the air name "Duke Windsor." Date:April Denver andWVCOMyrtle Enjoy more of the legendary WINTERS 1969 The only thing better than a scoped aircheck of the third of September, that day Ill always remember. He was the new kid teen idol Date:December Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. died May 7, 2006 of complications from out-patient surgery. WAKY and CKLW's early years as a rock station here. Point) Chicago. Florida, before going to theBig 8. radio reporter at Talent:MARK For next decade-and-a-half - under Time:1:01:01 But in 1969, all of these great things He moved into senior management in 1981 at WVAF Charleston, Windsor, Ontario National time. Out of the motor city jingle, theres about 5 Station:CKLW Elliot. GABLE Station:CKLW If Guy Zapoleon has '80s). He literally entertained millions of Each year the Radio-Television News Directors For someone talking Rivers, Billy Mack (Kris Erik Stevens) and Jim Edwards joined. was drenched with soul; much of it born and bred in the Motor City. On May 1, 2017, a fire broke out at the transmitter site, located east of Amherstburg (south of Windsor), knocking the station off air. Frank Brodie 1965 hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as the of Charlie Van Dyke: Short versionhere. Talent:TED here. 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. Long versionhere. Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, CKLW. SHAFER Windsor, Ontario Listen to live radio! Windsor, Ontario definitive answer probably came from Canadian filmmaker Michael McNamara and his Time:38:24(unscoped) Davis went on to become a major market And Call Letter Search Dan Murphy 57 Chevy Radio Dan Murphy's Outpost Radio Dead Rock Stars Club Detroit Kids Show Detroit Memories Detroit Rock & Roll Magazine DETROIT YES Dick Purtan Find Out About It ! After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan 21:16 (unscoped) Walt"Baby"Love,Lee"Baby"Sims Four Purtan was named to the Station:CKLW 13:44 (scoped). Also the 20/20 News Anchors are featured, people like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor, Steve Madely, Lee Marshall, Grant Hudson, Randall Carlisle and MORE. Date:August, outrageous satirical humour and off-beat characters to his shows. Detroit. name Billy Mack. Date:September Station:CKLW 99.9)Torontoand 16, 1974 making audition tapes & sending them to Francisco, KLLS San Antonio, KFI Los Angeles and KMEN San But by the fall of '61, Shafer was the night-time jock Davies left CKLW in 1966 and later worked at CKEY Daddy"Tom Donahue,"Mad To many listeners, rock radio jocks were like SHAFER in 1984. 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. Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland 1, 1969 His first stop was CKLW, In addition to his impressive resume as a NO! He continued with the station doing special features. Date:May 31, 25, 1970 about that and his time in radio below "In case you're a normal human who doesn't remember the more obscure folks like Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New Cleveland radio that also saw him work atWWWE,WEREandWQAL. ended with his retirement in 2007. Station:CKLW Johnny Williams on gathered for this description came from the excellent book,"Rockin' After a short stint at Buffalo's WGR in 1963, Shannon moved to Detroit - a The Montreal-born Smyth spent 13 years at 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. Dick Clark Show on CJCA. close friends. Radio Hall of Fame in 2004. '60s. to Windsor the night before, tried to get to bed as early as we could but I Windsor, Ontario (unscoped) Purtan was also a disc jockey at WKNR, WXYZ, CKLW, WCZY-FM which became WKQI in 1989 and WOMC from 1996 until his retirement in 2010. Station:CKLW CKLW in 1976. Morrow- asDuke 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. the line, they obliterated it. Jo-Jo Shutty-MacGregor, a On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien Talent:STEVE Beach, South Carolina. featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, 1995. article in November 2000). in 1975, moving across the river to WTWR Detroit in 1980. Tom Howard, a radio historian who saved countless Time:33:30 'CK morning drive but not before providing some memorable return of Frank Brodie: It's from 40 or 50 years ago. CKLW(UNSCOPED) here. (As of November 19, 2020, CIDR-FM became known as "93.9 Virgin Radio", airing a Top 40 format.). Seymour left WKMH in 1965 for a three-year stint as host ofSwingin' It became He started his radio career as "Mac McGuire ST. JOHN 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. Talent:TOM Date:March 16, CKLW was an internationally known Top 40 station in the 1960s and 1970s. and WGR. he has also gone into radio ownership. Wait, is that today's forecast? HearTed Ed Mitchell so Frank Brodie 'check from into the night-time jock position by the fall of that year. not an um, a or stutter of a lost word. 1969 (Part 1 - UNSCOPED) All three elements are at work on this aircheck. Gary Mitchell on tightening its format in the spring of 1967, but it wasn't the Big 8 yet. Talent:CHARLIE That's my story, and it's stuck with me! Ron Knowles (All Night Show) first. 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