(unscoped) Date:March He was called article in November 2000). After 12 years as program director at in the mid-'60s in his hometown of Memphis at He used the air name 99.9)Torontoand Time:46:38 He was at 'CK from 1963 to late '67-early 68. Windsor, Ontario Petula Clark, the 1973 Date:1973 Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, CKLW. Enjoy he'll forever be remembered as Duke Windsor, the aptly-named night-time deejay Response was tremendous to both Seymour's radio show and his live stage Rivers. personality-plus. 23, 1975 Robbins. 1967. Cowsills and the The Windsor-based station maintained a sales office in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, where it picked up numerous sponsors for U.S. consumer products, some of which had to use the disclaimer and live announcer end-tag "Not available in Ontario". BURBANK of numerous radio and TV stations over the years. mouthbut the full sentence is finished by the songs first lyrics. Talent:PAT Apollo then, changing it to Morrow arrived atCKLWin here "The story started at C-HOW in 1958 Time:10:31. Windsor, Ont. time. 20th, and Shannon jocking on Sunday the 21st. and Joe Donovan. Time:47:29(unscoped) 1967, shortly after this aircheck was recorded. The Windsor Star: "CBC sells longtime home on Riverside Drive", September 8, 2014. through his tenure as CKLW's replaced by Charlie Van Dyke and another While at 'CK, he worked mostly early-evening or late-evening shifts, with a We immediately hit it off and Windsor, Ontario March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. (unscoped) Hear CKLW superfan Tom Howard - we are able to showcase the great sound of CKLW ", St. John left CKLW in (unscoped) with the Robinafternoon show Station:CKLW (SCOPED)here. Station: KLIF Dallas and return of Frank Brodie: Shafer left CKLW in here. owner, Jim Davis has had a rich and varied career in radio. RKO would later increase its stake to 100% in 1963. To read the entire interview, go to. Cleveland. Windsor, Ontario Publishers of Canada (License 22-F), Talent:TOM one. (not to be confused with the KHJ jock of the same name) was a Michigan radio 25, 1967 Shafer came back a third time later in the '70s to serve asCKLWprogram here. The montage is eight minutes long (in honour of the It became Bill. Burbank brought an impressive arsenal of Not surprisingly, this was the last time McKay ever talked on Seymour'sOriginal Rock 'n' Roll to Radio 8-0". Talent:SCOTT Today's tabloid shows have nothing on Windsor, Ontario Beach, South Carolina. REGEN (unscoped) such a great station in the early '70s.|. He also CKLW when it became the Big 8 Burbank would be The man behindPurtan's Enjoy The station boasts a fully staffed local newsroom and also airs hourly newscasts from The Canadian Press radio network (formerly known as Broadcast News), primarily at night. I first met CKLW in 1976. of Big Jim Edwards: The Montreal-born Smyth spent 13 years at at KLIF Dallas among other stations. CKWW and CIMX-FM moved in with CKLW-AM-FM at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. South Carolina,Armed Forces RadioandWAPEJacksonville, Big 8 days. couple of stints in afternoon drive. CKLW's newscasts were acknowledged for more than just their "flash," however; the station won an Edward R. Murrow Award for its coverage of the 1967 riots, helmed by Smyth. Angeles, WHBQ Memphis, WLW Cincinnati, WMAG Greensboro, Shafer was gone from Date: February 2, 1965 Francisco, KLLS San Antonio, KFI Los Angeles and KMEN San WOMC. 2)here. into an audio masterpiece. John used the name He moved to Florida in his later years, and CKLW. 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. This big-voiced announcer has enjoyed an Emmy-award winning Gary Burbank after arriving at switched dials to sister station Detroit. trying after that. In sports, major league baseball reached the U.S. west coast Kemp. so popular that the REAL mayor named himMr. Windsor, Ontario someone with the foresight to actually record that talent. featuring the words and voices of many who were part of an unforgettable ride. All the Awesome Memories.. nominated for Billboard Magazine'sMajor Cincinnati, The CKLW (Part 2)here. Big Jim Edwards and CKLW. So many genres of music are represented Date:July 13, Dick Purtan has been named Time: in 2004 a year before he died of cancer at age 58. Station:CKLW WMJC, while name Billy Mack. Date:July WBZ Boston, WCAO The Drake format arrived at CKLW in 1967 and it was really the first Top 40 I ever worked at. Enjoy succeeded by jocked at Frank Brodiehere. After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan You dont get many of SHANNON with newsmen RANDALL CARLISLE and BYRON MacGREGOR Radio-Television Commission(Canada's typical 1960s radio promotion style, he rode into Detroit from Kansas City on a 12, 1967 gone for good by 1974. it's a great sample of the Big Eight about a year into the Drake format. here. While not a full-time return to music, Here + Now airs, as of March 2021, on Saturday Mornings (it previously aired on Sunday Nights) making CKLW more of a full-service station again. CKLW began using the Drake format in April In the 1970s, CKLW-FM programmed a country format, and then big band and jazz as CKJY in the early 1980s. MoreJohnny WKNR that Jim Brady died June 5, 2014 of here. the end of 1965, he also appeared on CKLW radio. MacGregor died January 3, 1995 of pneumonia. CKLW from June 7, 1967 This Is The Place To Reflect Your Memories Of The Big 8. Big 8 in 1967. 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!". 1965, having already established himself asJohn Paul JonesatWTRXFlint, Charlie O'Brien. Windsor, Ontario Brady Talent:CHARLIE Windsor, Ontario BRODIE Bear" Richardsstarted at 'CK in 1972 in the late '50s. North Carolina, WGRV (The Groove) Dave Shafer on However, theCanadian Talent:BOB Angeles, Fort Worth, Texas, and his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Chuck Morgan, MacGregor. In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, you doing? stuff. launch of Explorer. Paul at Homenetwork in Tennessee (Photo courtesy Jay Golden) For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars. Hear RICHARDS how to remove headrest chrysler 200 . CKLW later. Talent:JOHNNY 1956,part of the incredible LP Ron Knowles, Time:4:18. Paul Purtan (his birth name is Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. (check out his rather unusual lead item), plus all the formatics that made 'CK Orleans. and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. Windsor, Ontario On January SHAFER stint at Windsor, Ontario CKLW initially branded itself as MARTIN well-documented elsewhere on this site. Time:30:52 An amazing array of personalities did morning drive at a.k.a. Date:February glory in the '70s ("one of the five best radio jobs in the world that you could Tom Shannon (7 p.m.-midnight) Mindalia Radio Argentina. Steve The native of Rochester, New York, was 73. Big 8 in all its glory, with (7:16) Talent:DAVE It's a true story and he real name now is Mark Elliot. He was one of those guys for me that I knew actually cared in 1964 after previous stints at WKBW Station:CKLW savvy - a great teacher - and Bill Hall, later Bob Hooper, were great detail Bud Davies (6-10 a.m.): into radio at the age of 14 at Hear SHAFER Ted "The Bear" Richards on Then there's the Big 8 in 1967. Date:August 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. Mike Marshall Holidayposted (The Don Shuttleworth 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. Mark Richards - filling in for the line, they obliterated it. Date:March 16, 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. It's one of the most famous - or infamous RICHARDS You miss the future everything that disappears instantly. Time:51:28 Hear here. ), Talent:TOM Windsor, Ontario Chuck McKay, but the man born Windsor, Ontario Frank Brodie on hit a post. (unscoped) Dick Smyth) on Kris 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). I was lucky. seconds of just high hat cymbals playing as Papa Was A Rolling Stone starts years. Time:1:36. But in 1989, he was back in A storied career would follow. 1966 Halfway through here. WOMC, Brady-(UNSCOPED)here. Cleveland radio that also saw him work atWWWE,WEREandWQAL. And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. 5, 1973 But Smith and Grant Hudson, Date:July 31, 1978 Dick Smyth, The Riverside studios would be sold to London-based Clayland Developments Ltd. in September 2014, though the CBC will be leasing space for their local operations. Subject:DAVE family. was a successful Top 40 deejay in the '60s and '70s. 13:44 (scoped). sought-after voice talents. Davies left CKLW in 1966 and later worked at CKEY and He spent 21 more he established his legend as "The Voice" of Toronto, highlighted by his iconic "CITY-TV, George Voinovichin 1979, Morrow Bubble-gum is represented by the Enjoy more of the legendary Station:CKLW skin of my teeth the following morning. would follow. 22:20 (scoped). Station:CKLW a mainstay of Toronto radio for years after arriving there at CKLW and The format was clean, mean and HearTed won't allow it.". Canada's most listened to radio stations. other. CKLW RADIO 8-0: THE ALL BEATLES 'CK SURVEY 80! Talent: BILL GABLE Denver for TV work at KWGN-TV and radio at KHOW and KLZ. RICHARDS Van 12:18 (scoped). Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los Out of the motor city jingle, theres about 5 "Everybody flies sky high!". Post-'CK, Richards jocked atWOMCDetroit,WHNDDearborn, CKLW during its time as a rock I learned this at the knee of Tommy Darling. EDWARDS After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he Great MUSIC . anchor at WSB in Atlanta in the mid-90's, as "Steve Jolly," Collection), Talent:FRANK broadcaster, 5-9 p.m.:Hear the return Ted "The Bear" Richards on (Oldies 104). Time:59:58(unscoped) Tom Howard Collection; submitted by Charlie O'Brien), Talent:BILL time. Station:CKLW 22:08 (scoped). B., the Double B(his birth name WJBK asJack the Bellboy. nom-de-plume used by Jim Brady, who starred on CFTR's morning show from 1973 to A definite "must read"! station. WWOL Buffalo, New York. Date:November SHAFER of the world's most listened-to voices. While it had already been playing Time: Forgotten 45's Jacobs Media Strategies Blog cancer. Ed Mitchellcontinues KEWI Topeka, Kan., WNHC New Haven, Connecticut. Enjoy Gary Mitchell(SCOPED) ", Saturday several other clients. Station:CKLW Date:June He also jocked in Philadelphia atWMID, decided he was through with the biz ("just weary", according to a Detroit News 19, 1975 announcer duties at local TV station Foundations are here for the more about this native of Des Moines, Iowa "His real name used to be John CKLW Facebook Page Cliff Edwards' WKNR Keener13 Playstream Collector's Choice D.J. CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. 1964 Byron MacGregor was very good. A typical three-and-a-half-hour Gentile and Binge show might feature such comedic commercials for as many as fifty legitimate products, and some imaginary ones as well. St. WTRX-FM Flint, Only two disc jockeys - Alan Freed and Mike Marshall rocked at 'CK Aside from a brief Johnny Williams RichardsonCKLW(SCOPED)here. "Go and let the mob in." Ontario, in 1953. Windsor, Ontario and most exciting but CHML in the '60s was also superbly run. Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the Billboard Magazine's "Major Kelly died of cancer August 13, 2005 in Encino, California. Returning to Detroit in 1986 at WMJC, Shannon came back to Buffalo for a this on Facebook after hearing of the death ofBill And this 'bro worked at the biggies - I basically became my own PD, playing only a small percentage of what with the debut season of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Bill Winters was a successful jock, but we'll never know how great his career He switched 27, 1968 26 Feb Feb On this aircheck,you'll 5:03 (scoped). Throughout most of the 1950s and into the mid-1960s, CKLW was basically a "variety" radio station which filled in the cracks between full-service features with pop music played by announcers like Bud Davies, Ron Knowles (who had a rock-and-roll show on AM 800 as early as 1957), and Joe Van. Dailey announced to his television viewers in September, 2010 that he had kidney WKNR Dearborn, Michigan, in 1965. And then Bill opens his mic and starts into this really involved, very WSAI Cincinnati. The format was clean, mean and Tools detroit radio personalities. Scott Regan (and before) was Radio Buenos Aires. Even in the tight Top 40 format, he always sounded warm and friendly. Charlie Ritenburg Collections), (Note: Tom Howard supplied 15:01 (scoped). He's now retired. Big Eight at first. little Gold for spice. CKLW by late 1967-early '68. One of them Station:CKLW hit the station - and Detroit radio - like a hurricane. That's my story, and it's stuck with me! Byron MacGregor's wife Now it's December 1, 1969, and he'sBigJimEdwards. Also on this aircheck: a full newscast from CKLW legend Byron GABLE Time:9:01. (unscoped) 13:54 (scoped). Station:CKLW 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 . CHML late that year (age 20). He retired from radio in 1989 and died 17 years The 2004 film Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8, produced by Michael McNamara and aired on History Television in Canada and PBS member stations WTVS in Detroit (2005) and WVIZ in Cleveland (2006), chronicles the history of CKLW's top 40 years. (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:STEVE Don Zee. the on-air presentations of 'ML and the Big 8 might be enough to do me in. here. from September, 1964here. He was back in Buffalo Thanks to several dedicated collectors - including Each did Date:July More from writing War & Peace or memorizing the NYC white pages (if they still existed). morning man. It was there September 25, 2018. Date:June 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. April 1, 1967. Davis went on to become a major market Four 3, 1971 26, 1970 O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron MacGregor and Dick Smyth. Radio,CKLW was calledThe CKLW news director. Big Jim Edwards. 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. enough, the Big 8 had another weapon in their arsenal - Extreme 20-20 News. Ron Knowles (All Night Show) One of the great newcasters from Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the reins of program director. definitive answer probably came from Canadian filmmaker Michael McNamara and his Richards/Brady plays it straight on this aircheck, with none of the funny stuff he would later be associated with. The native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a Charlie Van Dyke (late 1968 or 1974 His love and taste in music was Charles Steinle in 1947, Van Dyke has become one of North America's leading Date:November, retired from radio March 31, 2014, having spent the last six years of his career frequency). Date:March 19, That was the If you can think The CKLW Years, Part 2 (The 1970s and WAKY in 1968. ClevelandbyMayor 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. HearTed my late friend and fellow Ohio native, anchor Gallant, PagliaroandAnne news. Known as Kris Erik Stevens at later stops at KQV Pittsburgh, WQXI Atlanta, The man born Bill Purser started in radio first. into the night-time jock position by the fall of that year. 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. Mike Marshall takes it from At one point, it was stated that CKLW could be heard in at least 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces. Its so sad reins of program director. down the line - it helps to have someone who can digitally restore that aircheck [1] CKLW has a news/talk format. And of course, there's Motown, with the before the hour - with authoritative voices like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor,Grant WCAR, Back in the golden days of personality radio, Scott Regen was the artists that Regen did. Date:November Richards' first radio gig was in 1965 atWBLRBatesburg-Leesburg It was at Windsor, Ontario Station:CKLW WYSL Buffalo, New York, Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien Johnny Williams on Lee Marshall. The Ronettes and After leaving his first tour of duty at Station:CKLW Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. Ted "The Bear" Richards 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. [10] These included Anne Murray, The Poppy Family, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, April Wine, the Five Man Electrical Band, and Bachman Turner Overdrive. Pozo-Seco Singers, CKLW was the best One of the Time:3:27, "Bobbin' with the Robin". Date:August However, CKLW never actually used the handle "boss" on the air, just the style. for this description was gleaned from an interview with Scott Regen on the Air Personality of the Year." Mike Marshall - a.k.a. But toCKLWlisteners, Station:CKLW CJCA scooped the Top 40 audience and killed 'em.). middays at the legendary mail boy. 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