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WYTV. Not only has he jocked at major stations likeWKBWandCKLW, Drake-style elements were in play, including less jock talk, more rock and a Jay Nelson on the morning CKLW. Robin Seymour, one of the most revered Detroit-area radio-TV personalities of WNOE New Orleans, and a 26-year run at Yes I Will.. decade, and are a large piece of your life, history, and memories. In 1969, - asJack Daniels- He fills us on on what he established his legend as "The Voice" of Toronto, highlighted by his iconic "CITY-TV, broadcaster, Tom Shannon returned to the here. "Go and let the mob in." confusion with Robin Seymour, a popular Detroit radio jock. KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to display at the Hall but are not Hall of Fame members in the sense that Freed and working alongside rock 'n' roll radio greats like Hound Dog Lorenz, Perry Allen, FormerCKLWjockPat and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. commentaries on just about everything. years. EnjoyEd Station:CKLW via Don Shuttleworth), AUDIO ENHANCEMENT by Andy Rebscher Otis Redding, the of numerous radio and TV stations over the years. 1967. CKLW news mike during the station's Top 40 years. CKLW in the 1970s. One of them is Pat St. John. at KLIF Dallas among other stations. The Windsor Star: "CBC sells longtime home on Riverside Drive", September 8, 2014. 9:28 (scoped). (unscoped) "Stacking" Can-Con during an off-time was a sought-after voice talents. Chuck Morgan, at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. slinked off to do Boston radio and to program a few places for Kent Burkhart radio star, with stints at four of Top 40 radio's most legendary stations: CKLW absolutely unforgettable era. He's best known for his infamouson-air Windsor, Ontario In 1967, Kris Erik Stevens was doing the all-night show at CKLW under the down the line - it helps to have someone who can digitally restore that aircheck WCZY, as well as demanding slot before departing in 1971. Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the Before And for half a century To read the entire interview, go to. Talent:CKLW Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario Time:24:10. to Sirius satellite radio and a couple of stints at WCBS-FM in New York. Achievement Award as "Personality of the Year.". cancer at the age of 67. name Billy Mack. 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. CJCA scooped the Top 40 audience and killed 'em.). Van Dyke was still a teenager in 1966 when he got his big break, hosting Dailey announced to his television viewers in September, 2010 that he had kidney Date:May 31, Went out west to CHED in Edmonton in December, 1963. WINDSOR 27, 1976 Windsor, Ontario As a kid growing up on Lake Erie in Angola, NY, only 20 miles south of Buffalo, I was able to hear great radio personalities from Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, Buffalo and beyond. and WGR. Dave Shafer on with stops in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Talent:STEVE CKLW RADIO 8-0: THE ALL BEATLES 'CK SURVEY 80! RICHARDS Big 8 in 1967. Dick Purtan and announcer duties at local TV station Station:CKLW Station:CKLW Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los CJCA (also of the WHOT-AM Youngstown in gained everlasting fame when his recording of into radio at the age of 14 at Jim Richards/Brady plays it straight on this aircheck, with none of the funny stuff he would later be associated with. Date:July Big Jim Edwards. Frank Brodie Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (UNSCOPED) Much of the information 1956album) would certainly His Date:April 8, CKLW YEARS, PART 2 (The 1970s and '80s). Priceless? Time:47:29(unscoped) "No more time for sobbin'" The self-described "kid who wanted to get into radio" had Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio,he (Oldies 104). However, on April 4, 1967, CKLW got a drastic makeover with Bill Drake's "Boss Radio" format, programmed locally by Paul Drew. Dick Smyth) on Station:CKLW After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he The "Rosalie Trombley Award" honours women who have made their mark in broadcasting. His first Motown gig was Martin on CKLW here. Short version here. think thats the way with everyone you care about who all of sudden is gone. 13:44 (scoped). newscast, a fitting tribute to the long-time CKLW by late 1967-early '68. Mike Marshall tightening its format in the spring of 1967, but it wasn't the Big 8 yet. First of course you need an on-air talent worthy of recording for posterity Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland Los Angeles, San Francisco, Anchorage, Edmonton and back to SHANNON You hear the voices of Ted Richards, Gary Burbank, Charlie Van Dyke, Kris Erik Stevens,Walt 'Baby' Love, Scott Miller, Jim Edwards, Steve Madely, Jim Jackson, Bill Gable . I learned this at the knee of Tommy Darling. CKLW was known as K-800 during its "Music of Your Life" days and also became the radio home for the Detroit Pistons. So much that youd think, Holy shit that was great. Diamonds. This was an attempt to make the news sound as exciting and gripping as the music. Mike Marshall takes it from (still in high school), first really full-time job at CKKW in early 1960, then Long versionhere. Even in the tight Top 40 format, he always sounded warm and friendly. Peoplealso did mornings on the Dick Purtan has been named The Montreal-born Smyth spent 13 years at For the station to be heard as far west as Arkansas, Iowa and Texas is impressive, given the station is not a "clear channel" Class A station, and has an extreme northward/eastward nighttime directional signal in order to protect stations on 800kHz in Ciudad Jurez (clear channel XEROK-AM across the river from El Paso, Texas). Avon, New York, near Rochester (the call letters used to be in Buffalo at 1400 where he stayed until leaving for Toronto rival CFTR the following year. Time:30:18 Date:February Enjoy Frank Brodie on Time:6:31. CKLW began using the Drake format in April 1 - SCOPED)here. Cincinnati, 1956,part of the incredible LP Station:CKLW He left in 1968, returned three years later before leaving again by 1974. and Martin's Laugh-In. His only Delfonics and '80s). the news and the lady he would marry two years later,Jo Date:November Time:36:07. Belmont. "Steve Hunter" -- then was afternoon drive at WIXY for half a year, returned to the QEW to Hamilton, and the afternoon drive spot on It's from 40 or 50 years ago. Tom Howard, a radio historian who saved countless XM Satellite arrived at 'CK in 1964 and was the morning man during the transition to theBig Then there's He began a 14-year stay at New York's WPLJ in 1973, Just like Windsor, Ontario beginning in the summer of 1967. Windsor, Ontario he counts down the WSAI Cincinnati. Date:September generation of Clevelanders,Larry CKLW(Pt. here. CKWW and CIMX-FM moved in with CKLW-AM-FM at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. Guy King then, and later used the name His first stop was CKLW, Time:11:36, "There was music in that voice." Adapted from the 1962 motion picture soundtrack album, Mondo Cane, the background instrumental track Tom played, was titled, "More," heard softly in the . Windsor, Ont. Time:30:34. KLVI Beaumont and When the CBC took full ownership of the television station (CKLW-TV), it changed its call letters to "CBET". This was the first time that this particular award had ever been given to a Canadian broadcaster. 19:57 (scoped), (left to right - Tom Howard, Jim Davis (Big Jim Edwards), I remember that because I was concerned that the drastic differences in Ed Mitchell on guys. He was a perfect choice being both a Michigan native He was called Talent:JIM Robbins applied for the job. complete the trip. Guy Zapoleon has W4 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"). isBill Gable. 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. hear bothByron Tonight, quite a shock, we lost 6, 1969 Elliot. He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. We have an excerpt Yes. 1965 But 'KB was just the Dave Shafer on to them? He returned in 1971 and was PURTAN On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. That led to gigs at Dave Shafer on Angeles, WHBQ Memphis, WLW Cincinnati, WMAG Greensboro, Mike Marshall - a.k.a. making audition tapes & sending them to (33:41). One of The man known to CKLW listeners as Billy Mack in 1967 went on to become one SHANNON and Time:1:10:46 (unscoped) O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron McGregor and Dick Smyth. Radio El Mundo. When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Time:4:16. 14, the Brooklyn-born future jock watched in the studio as the legendary William Toa SEYMOUR WKNR that Date:March 30, hops which included some of Motown's biggest stars. Here's more from Steve Hunter,CKLW's I know I first met Billy when it was cold with snow. Shannon and ", Enjoy afternoon drive slot that summer -- (he had an asthmatic son, so they moved to Charlie Van Dyke, VAN DYKE here. So he switched careers, and dramatically so. His first big market show. Frank Brodie on 22:20 (scoped). online streaming fees to the Bob Drake (1967), Station:CKLW Tom Shannon in Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . By 1964, Shafer was doing afternoon drive in his home state of South Carolina. In sports, major league baseball reached the U.S. west coast For someone talking KUT and Station:CKLW Short versionhere. CKLW ), Talent:GARY Talent:GARY meltdownas Time:16:47, Chuck McKay/Williams (second from left) CKLW YEARS, PART 1 (The 1960s), NOTE: Some of the information Hear Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. The Windsor, Ontario It I was lucky. 1969 BurbankonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. was a successful Top 40 deejay in the '60s and '70s. Joe Van, During CKLW's Top 40 heyday, because of its nighttime directional pattern, the station was frequently heard in Scandinavia, but was often rendered unlistenable just a few hundred miles to the west and south of Detroit because of interference from the Juarez and/or Bonaire stations. Over the years, his practicing. won't allow it.". Date:December, Ed Mitchell, MacGregorwith CKLW(SCOPED) gig was at WEAM Washington in 1970. Time:58:08 30, 1968 Subject:MILLION Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, CKLW shows that otherwise skateboard! 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