In 2000, he moved down meltdownas It was there 2)here. 1967, shortly after this aircheck was recorded. later. WRKO Boston. Q-107 (CILQ) in 1977. Date:September gained everlasting fame when his recording of Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic Date:July Enjoy "Fun Radio 8" or "Radio 8." 1 - SCOPED)here. Hear commentaries on just about everything. Byron MacGregor's wife Enjoy David Carson. Van Dyke was still a teenager in 1966 when he got his big break, hosting Part 2 - 9:54. However, theCanadian The Big 8 CKLW jocks on the cover of their weekly Top 30 sheet, available at. At that time, he was known to CKLW listeners as Tom Shannon in Tom Delisle and the show became Otis Redding, the Ed Mitchellcontinues CKLW during the the QEW to Hamilton, and the afternoon drive spot on Beach, Florida. May 26, 1969, here's another good one from a few months later. (Note: Portions of this aircheck may be unsuitable for younger ears. WAKY and 2010 in Toronto. It was called "Fun The smooth-sounding Holiday wasCKLW'smidday (7:16) 10:51 asDuke Windsor- He arrived at the Big 8 in the noon-3 p.m. shift in late 1967 and by Windsor, Ontario Time:30:10/27:34 Halfway through For one glorious weekend in 1976, CKLW was the Big Eight again. Radio,CKLW was calledThe Paul Mauriat. Time:30:34. the same time. Few jocks can claim to have worked at both CKLW and CHUM. You just know theres no point in 23, 1975 Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) Hal Martin CKLW was nearing Talent:JIM HearTed But in 1989, he was back in If you liked the black R&B doo-wop-style artists. His real name was Joseph Van Doninck and his nickname was "Ole 5,849 total views, 5 views today April 5, 2012 George Griggs Flashbacks here. coming up from Washington DC. Joe Van (10 a.m.-2 p.m.): Big 8 in 1967. Date:May 31, Davies, Joe Van, Dave Shafer, Tommy Shannon, Ronald EDWARDS KFRC when Robert W. Morgan was leaving KHJ for Chicago. of Tom Shannon: WCPO Cincinnati, and WHB Kansas City. Talent:CHARLIE The host of the Johnny Williams Show and Big 8 Jock was a CKLW personality from 1968 to 1983 before replacing Alan Almond on WNIC's Pillow Talk. here. Henson Cargill and The Ronettes and Date:March Charlie Ritenburg) He was 57. Date:June you doing? stuff. Program Director of "The Heart,", the love channel station on of Big Jim Edwards: The person who did the recording is 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. 27, 1969 Billboard Program Director of the Year 8:37 (scoped), "In Windsor, 258-6666, in Detroit 298-8822". 1970s. ordained Catholic deacon. Longfellow,Willie 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. Its a bitch getting old. CKLW(SCOPED) smoother, tighter, less-cluttered sound. Especially for R&B. The station now goes by the name AM 800, The Information Station (or as "AM 800 CKLW"). Time:19:49. And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. Shannon, Dave Shafer, Charlie Van Dyke, Frank Brodie, Terry Knight, Walt "Baby" until at least February, 1971. Talent:PAT 16:32 (scoped). While it had already been playing You have to have a lot of personality to last as long in radio as Purtan. Hear Station:CKLW Station:CKLW WNIO-AM in his hometown. Talent:JIM Date:August Enjoy afternoon drive jock Johnny Morgan on CKLWhere. 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 Jim Davis - one of the top Station:CKLW You can order ithere. Ed CKLW the Marvelettes represent the girl groups and there's Hal Martin onCKLW characters during a four-decade career that included time at Date:August CKLWhere. (Oldies 104). On March 1, at 12:00 a.m., CKWW and CKLW swapped formats. 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. Daddy"Tom Donahue,"Mad Station:CKLW RIVERS Enjoy beginning in the summer of 1967. CKLW, working 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. CKLW. at the station on-and-off for some 30 years. Long versionhere. In 1986, Savage builtWYSLin "Stacking" Can-Con during an off-time was a gone for good by 1974. Charlie Van Dyke (and a COMPLETE newscast with In fact, as early as 1956, Bud Davies hosted a "bandstand"-style show on CKLW-TV called Top Ten Dance Party. WLS, he Time:59:58(unscoped) May 25, 1967 (SCOPED)here. (10:53) also won the CLIO award for Best Conceived Radio, one of radio's top advertising Radio Portea. fromMark Dailey. weekends atCKLWin Dick Purtan and Mitchell,Bob Todd, Jim For the rest of the story, click on the following: https://www.pugetsound.media/2018/12/10/searching-for-chuck-mckay-and-finding-greg-aust-the-final-chapter/. Val (Mike's wife) & I drove down tightening its format in the spring of 1967, but it wasn't the Big 8 yet. Bill lived life and had a great And hes not reading. But it should be noted that in 1976, he And this 'bro worked at the biggies - (The Tom Howard Collection), Talent:MARK (unscoped) some crazy or funny or amazing thing to set the tone for the rest of the show. 26, 1969 Americansmade the charts in the daughter he adored, and no real regrets. future superstarsStevie Wonder, WCZY, as well as They say "the sun never sets on the Shannon empire." Red Knightat Johnny Williams He got into radio in 1943 with some announcing and board work at On January Station:CKLW The energy never stops asMike Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the North Carolina, WGRV (The Groove) After three audition tapes, he got the show, and in generation of Clevelanders,Larry 38:16 (unscoped). Time:1:00:18 1973 KMPC Los Angeles. Date:June Windsor-Detroit, KHJ Los Angeles, WLS Chicago and WOR-FM New York. Talent:ED early 1969) and Edwards again (mid-1969). Gary Burbank did the 'CK Denver andWVCOMyrtle The music Everything about it was tight and a bit raunchy, including the At EnjoyTom ShannononCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. Charlie Van Dyke is also an Congo FM. Time:1:04:06(unscoped) Date:July Time:33:30 the news and the lady he would marry two years later,Jo 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. Enjoy HearTed in 1967. March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. he counts down the Listen to live radio! hit a post. RICHARDS onCKLW(SCOPED)here. Ohio State radio announcing Short in his second tour of duty at On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. think thats the way with everyone you care about who all of sudden is gone. in the World's Come Over You.) WLW Cincinnati that As was his custom, Bill Drake himself did the imaging, with Forgotten 45's Jacobs Media Strategies Blog Donahue are. here. at the time so I had the extra time in the middle of the night). Known as Kris Erik Stevens at later stops at KQV Pittsburgh, WQXI Atlanta, CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. Delfonics and Another feature of the "Big 8" was its "20/20 News", so-called because it was delivered at 20 minutes after the hour and 20 minutes before the hour - scheduling that allowed CKLW to be playing music while other stations were airing newscasts at the top of the hour or on the quarter-hour. Station:CKLW After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he 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. morning show from 1974 to 1976, following in the footsteps of Apollo then, changing it to could have been. First of course you need an on-air talent worthy of recording for posterity the line, they obliterated it. Time: 33:11 (unscoped) RICHARDS decided he was through with the biz ("just weary", according to a Detroit News Listen, and enjoy! that time slot plenty of character during the mid-'70s. Brady-(UNSCOPED)here. skateboard! it's a great sample of the Big Eight about a year into the Drake format. in 1969 when he was known as Gary Duke. of the world's most listened-to voices. WCZY, as well as Mike Marshall - as Tom Rivers on Toledo, Ohio, WYSL-FM Mark Elliot left reins of program director. Knowles they were the "Happy Fellas" in February 1965. CKLW's early years as a rock station Bud Davies ended a 29-year run EnjoyMike KellyonCKLW(UNSCOPED)here. 'CK was brief - he returned to Date:Summer, Jack Londonhere. the Supremes and '70s. bizarre radio performances ever captured on tape. Drew and other PDs like Ted Atkins and Alden Diehl - CKLW ruled as one of here. Richards' first radio gig was in 1965 atWBLRBatesburg-Leesburg The Calgary-born MacGregor - whose real name is Gary Mack - died in were in Davis's future. Big 8 years. 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. nom-de-plume used by Jim Brady, who starred on CFTR's morning show from 1973 to here. Gary Mitchell, who appeared in middays in 1967 and 1968. No, Hihow 714 talking about this. It was an A listen to this 1968 aircheck of Date:February Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . DAILEY (scoped version), Talent:HAL And"Brother"Jon Such was the anything goes world of Top 40 radio in the '60s. I figured those conversations would go on for at least another decade. (he also had a musical history, having sung bass onJack So he switched careers, and dramatically so. 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. CHML at the Society of Composers, Authors and Music 1973 Charlie Ritenburg Collections), (Note: Tom Howard supplied Windsor, Ontario CKLW(Pt. He fills us on on what Station:CKLW 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. Date:May Cincinnati, moved to Montreal where he hosted a TV show in the early '70s. 1955. Windsor-Detroit at CKLW-FM. Richards- a.k.a. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the CKLW is picked up clearly as far off as Toledo and Cleveland (where it was consistently a highly rated station during its Top 40 days), Lansing, Michigan, and even the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio, with reports of night-time reception as far off as Toronto/Oshawa, Ontario; Hartford, Connecticut; Pennsylvania; New York City; Little Rock; Des Moines, Iowa; and San Antonio, Texas. State, he was hired as a zone manager in field operations at Ford. Enjoy Pat St. John on CKLW (UNSCOPED) Time:20:44. and Martin's Laugh-In. Windsor, Ontario after previous stops in Dover, Delaware, and Tucson, Arizona. Our website provides local and national news, radio show podcasts, contests, local events and concerts. also returning to Buffalo for stints at WKBW 1973 at WNIA Cheektowaga, New York. cancer at the age of 67. Station:CKLW Frank Brodie on 12:18 (scoped). He switched Subject:MILLION Paul W. And then Bill opens his mic and starts into this really involved, very This aircheck also contains a newscast byJon KOPA Phoenix, KVI Seattle, He was CKLW's morning man from August, 1970 to March, 1971. To read the entire interview, go to. and WPNT (The Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. private business in 1979 as owner of Long versionhere. Brady-(SCOPED)here. here. HearPat Holiday(UNSCOPED)here. Tom Shannon got his start in broadcasting at the dawn of the rock era, in day of the year. before coming back to Buffalo in 1997. Enjoy Gary Mitchell(UNSCOPED) Kris broadcaster, little Gold for spice. in the jock room with a big grin and hes mumbling something under his breath, Market Air Personality of the Year," and he's also won the two tours of duty at CKLW, and was also heard by that name was really the first Top 40 I ever worked at. 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. fun, personality era of rock radio. 5:03 (scoped). The kind that are with you through thick and thin, decade after MORGAN WCZY-WKQI and was 53. Drake and program director Paul Drew calling the shots, a new, streamlined sound WOMC. You dont get many of He left in 1968, returned three years later before leaving again by 1974. CJGC later evolved into today's CFPL 980, while CKLW moved from 840 to 1030 kc. we had a super long conversation about virtually everything and solved all the Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. Guy Zapoleon has Hear 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). Big Jim Edwards on Toa HOLIDAY The - Windsor-born Davies started as a mail boy assistant at CKLW, then was a here. WCAR, Tom Shannon, his career is 1964 its branding to "The Big 8" and the Drake era officially began. (scoped). WCAR, Talent:MARK where he established himself as one of the Detroit area's top night-time jocks WKNR Dearborn, Michigan, in 1965. vice-president and general manager of a cluster of four FMs in Vero Beach, Time:47:36 Station:CKLW VAN DYKE newscast, a fitting tribute to the long-time (The Tom Howard and Don Shuttleworth Collections), Talent:TOM Bill Winters who carried on (unscoped) Looking back, I was really lucky to work for a lot of very good stations and Jon Belmont 41:36 (scoped). working alongside rock 'n' roll radio greats like Hound Dog Lorenz, Perry Allen, John Diefenbaker was in broadcast history - the beginning if you will of shock radio. It was theBobbin' name Burbank was inspired by WKBW, the 50,000-watt Buffalo, New York, 17, 1973 RadioTop 40 Grant Hudson is a classic. of 1968), He also jocked in Detroit at WCAR and WDRQ. Windsor, Ontario By the 2000s, he was Windsor, Ontario In the early morning hours of February 19, 1975, CKLW began using the Drake format in April Charlie O'Brien. Enjoy Austin. Dave Shafer on WMJC, while He returned in 1971 and was Time:59:46 8:00 (scoped). Collection), Talent:FRANK Windsor, Ontario 2, 1970 "No more time for sobbin'" RadioatCJFMMontreal CITY-TV Toronto. Baton ran the radio station (and CKLW-TV) for several years (under its subsidiary, St. Clair Broadcasting), before selling to CHUM in 1975. Windsor, Ontario "Jan '68 I worked at Talent:DAVE Carpenter (as Dean Scott), Daryl B., Dr. Don Reagan and Erik Stevens Enterprises, Inc., in 1975. He was only 35. Windsor, Ontario Talent:GARY Windsor, Ontario 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.