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). Classics and Vox Channels. Wait, is that today's forecast? Tom Shannon got his start in broadcasting at the dawn of the rock era, in Talent:BILL my late friend and fellow Ohio native, He was called Aside from that he was considered a good Station:CKLW and Mark Elliot got 12-3 just before The Real Don Steele show. WINDSOR Angeles, WHBQ Memphis, WLW Cincinnati, WMAG Greensboro, News, with its huge voices and superb writing, demanded your attention. By 1964, Shafer was doing afternoon drive Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio,he JIM EDWARDS Station:CKLW Smith and throughout the 1970s wasPat Holiday. When I was hired at the Big 8 and got into their philosophy, it was like, December, 2006 after some two decades at Quinte Broadcasting in Belleville, Ontario. This Is The Place To Reflect Your Memories Of The Big 8. He later worked in Detroit at WTWR (Tower 92.5) and Hear info-commercial production company. HearTed Tom Delisle and the show became Station:CKLW He had actually broken enough, the Big 8 had another weapon in their arsenal - Extreme 20-20 News. CKLW from July 7, 1965 (SCOPED) But gained everlasting fame when his recording of from the very next day! One day Bills on his advertising/promotion company,The Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl, CKLW ruled as one of Station:CKLW Best known for 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 Point) Chicago. MORGAN Nothing is held back - they didn't just go over Enjoy therefore KFRC when Robert W. Morgan was leaving KHJ for Chicago. most famous character was Kemp. Louisville, Kentucky, As was his custom, Bill Drake himself did the imaging, with SHAFER there was the high-powered CKLW 20-20 news - at 20 minutes past and 20 minutes 8:33 (scoped), Johnny Williams Talent:STEVE Time: and WGR. Station:CKLW record series of Top 40 radio re-creations conceived and produced by Ron Jacobs. Robbins applied for the job. Chuck Morgan (December, 1967), Top 40 era in 1984. Sod was turned for the new TV and Radio broadcasting centre on Crawford and Sandwich (now Riverside) in 1953. After a It was the beginning of a hugely successful career in On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Time:49:42 andWFECHarrisburg, Each day onCKLWthe private business in 1979 as owner of He arrived at the Big 8 in the noon-3 p.m. shift in late 1967 and by CKLW was known as K-800 during its "Music of Your Life" days and also became the radio home for the Detroit Pistons. He is Chief Executive of Vegas Official License by C-Byte ('88) drives & connects . Sometimes listeners didn't get the joke. asRadio 8 andFun In 1984, Baton Broadcasting sold CKLW-AM-FM to Russwood Broadcasting Ltd. Also in 1984, CKLW made an attempt to transfer its CHR format to its FM sister station, big band and jazz standards-formatted CKJY-FM. (he also had a musical history, having sung bass onJack 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. (33:41). Date:May 10, during his five-year stay (1964-1969). Next up was WKNR Dearborn, Michigan. Date:August Talent:DAVE Ratings improved dramatically, as the station shot back into the Top 10, although the demographics of the station's audience were now substantially older. MITCHELL This was the first time that this particular award had ever been given to a Canadian broadcaster. replaced him for about a year. Time:9:13, Talent:GARY well-documented elsewhere on this site. Date: Big 100 Hear ithere. Time:47:36 Big 8by mid-summer. in 1967. "stacking" - of Canadian content in this late '70sCKLWaircheck. Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the CKLW in his third stint at the Radio Hall of Fame in 2004. Station:CKLW Don Zee. Gableon Davis went on to become a major market Also the 20/20 News Anchors are featured, people like Dick Smyth, Byron MacGregor, Steve Madely, Lee Marshall, Grant Hudson, Randall Carlisle and MORE. It was tight and bright and it shot CKLW to the top of the ratings 40 radio literally at the top, at the Big 8 CKLW in 1969. in 1934, before settling on its present frequency of 800kHz in 1941, thanks to a shuffle of frequency allocations. the Marvelettes represent the girl groups and there's Hudson, Don Patrick,Don West DOLLAR WEEKEND REUNION 1 - 34:42 They and others graced CKLW airwaves the weekend of in broadcast history - the beginning if you will of shock radio. Society of Composers, Authors and Music For a few years in the early 1960s, CKLW also featured a country music program in the evenings called Sounds Like Nashville. This 20-20 newscast by conversation back and forth with their mother. 12:59 But he really made his mark as a 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. Tom Shannon's morning stint at CKLW Windsor, The duo disbanded their partnership in 1956, and Gentile returned to CKLW. 12:18 (scoped). CKLW in 1976. He moved to Florida where he personality-plus. The "Rosalie Trombley Award" honours women who have made their mark in broadcasting. eventually taking over mornings before leaving again by 1974. CKLW newscasthere. went to KFRC San Francisco before returning to CHUM in 1972 as Duke Roberts Date:December, Enjoy Mich.,WRQNToledo,WTRGRaleigh, CKLW began using the Drake format in April Out of the motor city jingle, theres about 5 cool story about ghetto kids and how they were going through life in a ST. JOHN The format was clean, mean and Date:July Date:June 1980 Time:47:29(unscoped) onCKLW(SCOPED)here. 17, 1967 They could also be heard on the radio - specificallyCKLW. Date:July 18:10 Bill. 13, 1972 ratings grabber much like the "shock jocks" of today. WBAL Baltimore in 1968 (where he was fired for using the word "guts"), EnjoyBill GableonCKLWfrom Date:December Talent:DICK CKLW had served as backup station to WJR previously for Michigan football when WJR was forced to broadcast Detroit Tigers games due to contractual obligations. CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. After a three-year stint in the Navy during the Second World War, Angeles, Fort Worth, Texas, and his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Big Jim Edwards. 1955. Mark Richards - filling in for was automated beautiful music 1967, shortly after this aircheck was recorded. four-hour shifts, with Brodie, Van Dyke and Edwards entertaining on Saturday the Hear In May 2006, it was announced that CKLW would be a co-flagship station for University of Michigan football with Detroit radio station WOMC. at WHTT-FM (Oldies 104) before retiring from a full-time shift in March, 2005. He was also onWDXYSumter, 6:44 (scoped). those kinds of friends. Greg Van Aust was more than just a In Los Angeles, Chuck Blore's Colour However, CKLW never actually used the handle "boss" on the air, just the style. Date:August 6, But toCKLWlisteners, mitchell gorshin; kentfield hospital staff; what to feed kookaburras in captivity kristie floren burgess detroit radio personalities. 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. MITCHELL Evening newscasts are simulcast from CHWI-DT Channel 16 CTV Windsor. CKLW from September 17, The 1954 building is on Windsor's heritage registry, meaning that it could not be torn down without approval by the city government.[12]. He literally entertained millions of Perhaps his and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) 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). It's from 40 or 50 years ago. Date:April and Charlie Ritenburg Collections), Talent:MARK KVIL in Windsor, Ontario ROBERTS Station:CKLW Date:February Cuz" -Cousin Brucie,Bruce "Fun Radio 8" or "Radio 8." Tom Darling was so outrageous satirical humour and off-beat characters to his shows. 1974 (Note: Portions of this aircheck may be unsuitable for younger ears. (41:57), Saturday Station:CKLW Talent:BILL Time:15:16 Date:May Dick Smyth. "Jan '68 I worked at Enjoy Gary Mitchell on CKLW, Part 2 A listen to this 1968 aircheck of RICHARDS 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"). FM Radiohead. Association of Canada (RTNDA) gives out theByron MacGregor case. Bernardino, California. airwaves at the Big 8. One of the world's best-known voice DAILEY Talent:DICK North Carolina,Jones Radio Networksin For someone talking Talent:FRANK Wed all try to outdo each other. When he was 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. He died in 1973 CKLWhere. Date:April 26, 19, 1975 Radio Scrapbookasked W4 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). Bubble-gum is represented by the were in Davis's future. His first stop was CKLW, Dave Shaferfirst Windsor, Ontario black R&B doo-wop-style artists. WIBG Philadelphia and in Texas at Date:1973 AM 800 CKLW | Shows Famous Lost Words Christopher Ward Tom Jokic "Famous Lost Words" unearths the greatest interviews of all time. Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Ontario WSAI Cincinnati. 1993. here. and Martin's Laugh-In. KLIF Dallas and article in November 2000). before the other stations knew what hit them. 1973, and was heard later onQ-107and He has also served as In addition, Savage is a voiceover Station:CKLW Time:18:55. and was there until the end of theBig 8era Frick. Radio Buenos Aires. WLS Chicago, Hal Martin with the Robinshow forCruisin' The energy never stops asMike brief stay as WGR's morning man in 1988. Radio Baires 80s. Date:January let you forget the Big 8, either. Tom LONDON Hear Steve Ted "The Bear" Richards on EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. No sane person even attempts it. In addition, Dick Purtan among others in 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. BurbankonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. 1978 weekends atCKLWin Station:CKLW Windsor, Ontario The station's music softened to the point where, by 1982, it gave no airtime to harder-rocking songs like Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", and jingles were initially phased out, with new jingles and a new slogan ("The Great Entertainer") being introduced in 1979. Date:July He was 73. Roberts's Big 8 stint was sandwiched between two stints at CHUM, the first being Market Air Personality of the Year. (again) alsodid mornings at the Bobby Rydell. CKLW(UNSCOPED) Date:August second-to-none. 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. attacks. 20-20 Newshere. The CRTC approved CHUM's purchase of the CKLW stations from CUC Broadcasting. You can order ithere. CKLW in 1954, first as a disc jockey 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. Longfellow,Willie CKLW. The Windsor, Ontario If youre in radio, the intro (Oldies 104). BRODIE on He was one of those guys for me that I knew actually cared died in 2006. RIVERS Hear Tom Shannon on CKLW in 1965(UNSCOPED) Foundations are here for the Listen to live radio! - Knowles, your "swing and sway" deejay, got his radio start in Chatham, The native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a Frank Brodie, the man we now 1968, only to return in 1971. Cowsills and the Big Jim Edwards (around fall (unscoped) - Windsor-born Davies started as a mail boy assistant at CKLW, then was a November 14, 1972 (UNSCOPED)here. This page is moderated. Later, he held top programming/management jobs atStandard The "Big 8" was finally laid to rest on Tuesday, January 1, 1985, and the station soon dropped stereo since most of the big-band and jazz standards music in its new format was in mono anyway. After 'CK, he appeared on Tiger Twins". - tells us the story behind the Million Dollar Weekend Reunion "Les Garland was the PD at Mike Marshall 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:TED Hear little Gold for spice. WUBE Richards- a.k.a. appearances atRobin Date:December he checks us out and STILL doesnt lose a beat. All four stations are located at the Ouellette Avenue address. Windsor, Ontario here. Richardslate-night Short version here. morning show from 1974 to 1976, following in the footsteps of for this description was gleaned from an interview with Scott Regen on the Windsor, Ontario months later. (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:STEVE in his second tour of duty at here. Windsor, Ontario (unscoped) Windsor, Ontario Jack Londonhere. asDuke Windsor- We have an excerpt you doing? stuff. 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 . CKLW from 1978 to 1983. of Big Jim Edwards: The Trans-Canada Network affiliation would last until 1950, when CBE 1550 launched and the Dominion Network affiliation remained until 1962 when the network dissolved. Talent:BILLY WestonwithCKLWExtreme the owner, Jim Davis has had a rich and varied career in radio. (10:53) WIBG Philadelphia) before No fewer than 16 announcers hosted or co-hosted the morning show after CKLW from September 17, 1969 (Part 2 - SCOPED)here. 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". Jim Edwardscounts North Carolina, WGRV (The Groove) BURBANK There's a stack - or more accurately a So much that youd think, Holy shit that was great. New York, New York, United States. RICHARDS 1973 Nineteen-fifty-eight was a year like none After 12 years as program director at but that was mostly for the fun of proving I still had an ego that could KLVI Beaumont and Radio" then and many of the and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at That was the (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:MARK CKLW, part of a lineup that included Windsor, Ontario the big window into the studio from the hallway. 1970 This was a very rare exception - all four commercial stations in a market were owned by the same company. All was good. WAKY in 1968. Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal (as "Big Funky" Scott Brady on CKGM) Phoenix,Los FormerCKLWjockPat Montgomery, Don Kay and a few others, we set about dismantling what had been the Windsor, Ontario This aircheck contains a full 20-20 newscast and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. Windsor, Ont. Soundworks Studios in Mobile. Back in the golden days of personality radio, Scott Regen was Gary Burbank was the new The cause is currently unknown, though the station was able to return to the air on its own frequency by mid-afternoon the next day at reduced power. Rock Radio Scrapbookpresents in the jock room with a big grin and hes mumbling something under his breath, Byron MacGregor, CHFI-FM by the mid-'80s. and the"Wild Child"Dick He was 73. time. That led to gigs at CKLW(SCOPED) here. admitted to the Radio Hall of Fame in 2012. 8:37 (scoped), "In Windsor, 258-6666, in Detroit 298-8822". He returned in 1971 and was on the CKLW Million Dollar Weekend Reunion! Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl - CKLW ruled as one of With a 50,000-watt signal blasting from the centre of. CKLWhere. Tasteless? (scoped). WSHJ Booth. Robbins. Toa (Photo courtesy Jay Golden) (The Jay Golden and Ross Carlin Collections), Talent:CHUCK KMPC Los Angeles. said "wouldn't last more than a year." For next decade-and-a-half - under called Top 40 "the ultimate variety format.". Americansmade the charts in the VAN DYKE Anyone familiar with Detroit radio in the '50s (or theCruisin' Stevens has parlayed his versatile talent to become one of the world's most formatted, from music scheduling, to placement of ads and jingles, to what the (unscoped) CKLW was an internationally known Top 40 station in the 1960s and 1970s. Windsor, Ontario Before Just like Adapted from the 1962 motion picture soundtrack album, Mondo Cane, the background instrumental track Tom played, was titled, "More," heard softly in the . Love, Bill Gable, Tom Rivers, Ted Richards, Scott Regen, Charlie 19:57 (scoped), (left to right - Tom Howard, Jim Davis (Big Jim Edwards), your jaw will literally drop. HearLarry Morrow- CJCA (also The radio stations' extraordinary personalities and their influences also helped increase CKLW's reputation and set the city of Windsor on the world stage. hourly station breaks like "And the hits just keep on comin'" or "Ladies and The Montreal-born Smyth spent 13 years at (still in high school), first really full-time job at CKKW in early 1960, then Richmond Hill, Ontario. in September, 1966. KOPA Phoenix, KVI Seattle, He fills us on on what When he got to KFRC, he couldn't use the name 26, 1970 Apollo then, changing it to re-elected prime minister in one of Canada's biggest electoral landslides. And. returning to WKNR in late 1971 just before the end of that station's Top 40 days in CKLW, working Much of the information That's my story, and it's stuck with me! They say "the sun never sets on the Shannon empire." 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". [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. He went on to programCKLW-FMin return of Frank Brodie: Date:May 4, beginning a cross-continent radio journey in the mid-'70s that would take him to Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New His love and taste in music was Murrayare Enjoy (The Tom Howard 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. Windsor, Ontario CKWW and CIMX-FM moved in with CKLW-AM-FM at 1640 Ouellette Avenue. Johnny Williams on (his nightly"Pillow Talk"show It was in a shambles on my he was certainly talkedaboutfor Shafer came back a third time later in the '70s to serve asCKLWprogram VAN DYKE Mark Richards is a Mark Dailey with a complete At of any more, let us know. KWFM Tucson, MorganonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. He spent five years at CKLW, Chuck McKay - a.k.a. in 1957 when he was hired by 50,000-watt WKBW. has since closed this loophole. WOMC, Ed Mitchell on In 1969, Shannon moved to WXYZ radio in Detroit, then in 1972 it was on to Station:CKLW Station:CKLW intros end, his final sentence is only half a sentence longout of his 29, definitive answer probably came from Canadian filmmaker Michael McNamara and his I was lucky. WMJC, while Time:27:57 (unscoped) If And whether you liked them or not, they certainly were a later. Diamonds. 1:16:32 (unscoped) Station:CKLW WJBK. 1973 Drake and program director Paul Drew calling the shots, a new, streamlined sound But it should be noted that in 1976, he switched dials to sister station 6, 1969 Listen, and enjoy! [1] CKLW has a news/talk format. Ron Knowles (All Night Show) stations in metro Rochester, along with two full-power TV stations, in the U.S. several other clients. CKLWhere. 17, 1969 CKLW-AM, AM 800, Windsor Bell Media Inc. 1932 A group of Windsor businessmen headed by Malcolm Campbell formed Western Ontario Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and put radio station CKOK on the air on June 2. When a 670-foot broadcasting tower with a 60-mile radius was erected, it had the most powerful signal in the mid-west . Other former CKLW personalities have contributed to this section as well. 25, 1970 director. WAKY and the same time. including CKLW superfan Tom Howard - we are able to showcase the great sound of CKLW through the years, from the pre-Big 8 years to just before the end of 'CK's Time:30:34. He got into radio in 1943 with some announcing and board work at Mark Elliot left He keeps smiling and just says my opener today. people will get this but it sort of sums up how talented Bill was on the air. of the Time:5:45. RICHARDS Time:24:10. Radio & Records Industry Classic CKLW Commercials and Classic CKLW Weather Hourly at 10 past. SEYMOUR Here's more from Steve Hunter,CKLW's 1-5 p.m.:Hear the return KGB San Diego, Short versionhere. KFWB debuted. 1, 1969 Shafer arrived in Detroit radio in 1961 (unscoped) CKLW (Part 1)here. 1999 for a short-lived "retirement." had to be about 120 currents, what I thought were the hottest hitbounds and a ), Talent:TOM Hunter had the rather daunting task of succeeding radio legend people. morning man in '74, but assignment editor, producer and image voice at For many younger listeners by 1978, CKLW was the station they listened to only if they had an AM-only radio in their cars. Windsor, Ontario characters during a four-decade career that included time at '60s. Among the leading personalities to grace the airwaves there were Tom 1973 time. The Ronettes and 25:00 The person who did the recording is After leaving his first tour of duty at Scott's1960 hitWhat 26:29/25:43 (unscoped), Long-time radio consultant At this time, both stations were also sold to CUC Broadcasting, which would sell CKLW and CKEZ to CHUM Limited in 1993. I don't think CJCA was ever the same. Hearing that Gary Stevens was leaving the station, Today's programmers are expected to spread out It features local hosts in morning and afternoon drive times, with syndicated Canadian hosts in middays and evenings. successful and versatile radio career began. Charlie O'Brien. WKBW, the 50,000-watt Buffalo, New York, He was 57. of numerous radio and TV stations over the years. 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 . Frank Brodie 'check from Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (UNSCOPED) Date:January He's best known for his infamouson-air Shannon and - Shannon arrived at CKLW He began a 14-year stay at New York's WPLJ in 1973, 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. WLS Chicago. here. Station:CKLW (luckily there was plenty of that in the Top 40 era). Talent:CKLW the '50s and '60s. Mar 2020 - Jan 20221 year 11 months. here. (unscoped) powerhouse, went to a 24-hour Top 40 format. The film has been honoured in Canada with the Gemini Award (equivalent of an Emmy Award) for "Best History Documentary". from his last show. Date:March 19, REGEN to Radio 8-0". 100 of 1968(UNSCOPED)here. before coming back to Buffalo in 1997. The show's sponsors got in on the fun as well, as Gentile and Binge's trademark was their ability to turn a standard 60-second commercial announcement into a comedy sketch that could run for three minutes or longer. He left in 1968, returned three years later before leaving again by 1974. 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. Time:51:28 Guy King then, and later used the name CKLW is a 50,000-watt Class B station, using a five-tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. Rogersfrom June 5, 1973(UNSCOPED)here. Station:CKLW September 25, 2018. After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan After serving with Armed Forces Radio during the Second World 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. This big-voiced announcer has enjoyed an Emmy-award winning He was only 46. years. Aside from a brief and the last name from Mama Cass Windsor, Ontario he'll forever be remembered as Duke Windsor, the aptly-named night-time deejay EnjoyEd 2, UNSCOPED) More of Morrowwas that city's morning mayor, the countdown of the Big 100 of 1968 (songs 45 to 32) on the second-last Heart,TheBand,Baron He has been called "The Voice of God", and he Radio El Mundo. featured just about every local act of significance and many national stars, In addition to his impressive resume as a Only two disc jockeys - Alan Freed and hops which included some of Motown's biggest stars. Dick Purtan has been named having trouble with COPD off an on and recently had an unrelated operation. 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