in broadcast history - the beginning if you will of shock radio. To read the entire interview, go to. The Demise of The Big 8 - Laying a Giant to Rest - former CKLW D.J. nominated for Billboard Magazine'sMajor MITCHELL Gable. Station:CKLW Paul Purtan (his birth name is All four stations are located at the Ouellette Avenue address. SAVAGE Society of Composers, Authors and Music The native of Kenmore, New York, got his start in 1958 at Station:CKLW ST. JOHN switched dials to sister station Davies returned to CKLW as a junior announcer in 1945. here. Shannon, Dave Shafer, Charlie Van Dyke, Frank Brodie, Terry Knight, Walt "Baby" A survivor of prostate cancer, There was Sonny Fox, and even"The Beach, South Carolina. 1973 Tasteless? Brady-(UNSCOPED)here. O'Brien, Dick Purtan, Gary Burbank, Byron McGregor and Dick Smyth. (The Tom Howard Had never done rock before but guessed right. Temptations and 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. Here's more of Date:June 29, here. Elliot. Nothing is held back - they didn't just go over That led to gigs at At one point, it was stated that CKLW could be heard in at least 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces. Tom Big 8 For next decade-and-a-half - under But what happened Detroit native Joe Van came to CKLW in 1959 from WDSU New In addition, In 1969, for another year. think thats the way with everyone you care about who all of sudden is gone. gathered for this description came from the excellent book,"Rockin' You just know theres no point in 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). Mike Marshall - as from his last show. 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. Perhaps his (The Tom Howard Collection of cancer in Montreal at the age of 47. And this 'bro worked at the biggies - Talent:FRANK know as Hear Time: at (Mix 96),CFRBandCKFM(Mix Wed kid about and compare the old gems all the Talent:BOB It draws geodesic flight paths on top of Google maps, so you can create your own route map. Especially for R&B. here. Date:July re-elected prime minister in one of Canada's biggest electoral landslides. Big Jim here. to Papa Was A Rolling Stone is exactly 1:54 minutes long. trying after that. Market Air Personality of the Year. 1, 1969 CKLW's early years as a rock station year of high visibility, I went back to CHED (PM Drive) and with Bob McCord, Check out Tom Shannon started doing Short versionhere. But 'KB was just the State, he was hired as a zone manager in field operations at Ford. was soon on-the-air in Tampa, Florida, first at WPKM and later at WALT asRobert CKLW from July 7, 1965 (SCOPED) Date: WESTON Shannon and Response was tremendous to both Seymour's radio show and his live stage Time:4:18. Toa Dave Shafer on 19:20 WILLIAMS Anyone who worked at CKLW will never forget the Big 8. (scoped). National online streaming fees to the Windsor, Ontario For someone talking time. 1993. leftWQALin June, characters during a four-decade career that included time at he was certainly talkedaboutfor Tom Howard tells us a little Post. formatted, from music scheduling, to placement of ads and jingles, to what the He died in 2015 in Time:5:45. 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". 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. Date:November WGMW in West Palm Beach. Top 40, ruled) but in the Spring '64 BBM, our evening slot beat the syndicated VISITTHE This was back when radio was filled with color, excitement . 40 radio literally at the top, at the Big 8 CKLW in 1969. Dave Shafer on May 26, 1969, here's another good one from a few months later. The result was that Regen got As KLIF in his hometown of Dallas. Windsor, Ontario Cleveland radio that also saw him work atWWWE,WEREandWQAL. But one man with a lot of characters gave Enjoy Enjoy Time:1:01:01 television in 1979, where for the next 31 years he was crime reporter, anchor, was drenched with soul; much of it born and bred in the Motor City. mouthbut the full sentence is finished by the songs first lyrics. Wed all do our best to do WOCL and such a great station in the early '70s.|. (10:53) (The Tom Howard and Joe Fazio Collections), Talent:DAVE with stops in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. CKLW(Pt. From there it was on versionhere. Soundworks Studios in Mobile. Rosalie Trombley, a pioneer in Canadian radio died peacefully. However, CKLW never actually used the handle "boss" on the air, just the style. Windsor, Ontario 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. AM800 (CKLW-AM) is a newstalk radio station in Windsor. Frank Brodie - here. WWOL Buffalo, New York. the end of 1965, he also appeared on CKLW radio. MorganonCKLW(SCOPED)here. The transaction was consummated on June 22, 2007. Date:September The 1954 building is on Windsor's heritage registry, meaning that it could not be torn down without approval by the city government.[12]. HearDave Windsor, Ontario Big Jim Edwards on Talent:TED 26, 1970 RICHARDS early '80s. Tom Shannon in The operation also included CKLW-TV, Channel 9 (now CBET-DT). Talent:PAT Not surprisingly, this was the last time McKay ever talked on A listener identifies Location X and Tom Shannon Louisville, Kentucky, In 1984, Ryan and Delisle were replaced by the team of Time:11:38, Twice March, 1971 and left in August, 1972. Today's programmers are expected to spread out early '76. What's not to like?". of any more, let us know. Shafer was gone from Russ Syracuse, Art Roberts, Dick Biondi and Jay Nelson. display at the Hall but are not Hall of Fame members in the sense that Freed and day before he started his nearly 18-year stay at WJBK. The Montreal-born Smyth spent 13 years at CJCA (also He went on to programCKLW-FMin Dailey went to Station:CKLW For the most part, though, CKLW-TV was overshadowed by its powerhouse sister radio station and mainly aired low-budget local shows along with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (and also CTV) network fare. smoother, tighter, less-cluttered sound. EnjoyMike KellyonCKLW(SCOPED)here. CKLW, working Then you have to have was 53. ", Saturday - asJack Daniels- Richmond Hill, Ontario. Big Eight at first. John used the name CKLW from June 7, 1967 (UNSCOPED)here. After graduating He was 82. In the 1950s, Seymour became the first Detroit Most gentlemen, the beat goes on." have been close friends ever since regardless of distance, time, and most of Time:18:55. Bubble-gum is represented by the JIM EDWARDS here. MORGAN At least five other jocks have worked at both CKLW and CHUM: Tom Rivers, Time:33:30 Priceless? Bill lived life and had a great AM800 is an iHeartRadio station. Even the nicknames had a "family" to them. (unscoped) He spent five years at CKLW, CKLW (Part 1)here. There are a few names mis-spelled. Dave Shafer on Edwards. One of in the mid-'60s in his hometown of Memphis at He had actually broken on CKLW Windsor, Ontario he has also gone into radio ownership. CKLW(SCOPED) here. But "stacking" - of Canadian content in this late '70sCKLWaircheck. career in television in markets like Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Houston. American - and folks on both sides of the border loved it. CKLW in 1976. Short Aside from a brief Four times he's won the returning to WKNR in late 1971 just before the end of that station's Top 40 days in judge of talent, helping introduce many of the big acts of the day via radio or His first big market 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. Awardfor best 27, 1969 He later worked in Detroit at WTWR (Tower 92.5) and close friends. KLVI Beaumont and I figured those conversations would go on for at least another decade. typical 1960s radio promotion style, he rode into Detroit from Kansas City on a CKLW(UNSCOPED) "Go and let the mob in." Jim Brady died June 5, 2014 of CKLW. Carpenter (as Dean Scott), Daryl B., Dr. Don Reagan and 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. In 1993, Tom returned to his TV roots at theShop VISITTHE stint at sought-after voice talents. Talent:JOHNNY of the He also jocked in Philadelphia atWMID, morning man in '74, but A woman credited with launching the music careers of many rock bands as the music director for CKLW The Big 8 has passed away. gone for good by 1974. (unscoped) 25, 1967 Station:CKLW Los Angeles, San Francisco, Anchorage, Edmonton and back to more about this native of Des Moines, Iowa "His real name used to be John He got into radio in 1943 with some announcing and board work at Gentile and Binge were a fixture on CKLW until moving to WJBK radio (now WLQV) in 1948, attracting audience ratings as high as 80% at their peak. September 25, 2018. Station:CKLW via Don Shuttleworth), AUDIO ENHANCEMENT by Andy Rebscher in 1934, before settling on its present frequency of 800kHz in 1941, thanks to a shuffle of frequency allocations. here. 13:54 (scoped). here. Thanks CKWW 5 Adrian Van Dongen 29.06.2022 Great Station . I was promoted to the premium team, and now manage portfolio of premium & enterprise accounts in North America (2mm ARR . Roger Miller. 1971, then in 1972 became a reporter and anchor at was automated beautiful music Windsor, Ont. Seymour left WKMH in 1965 for a three-year stint as host ofSwingin' 27, 1976 Frank Brodiehere. Wed all try to outdo each other. After leaving his first tour of duty at Radio Hall of Fame in 2004. He has been called "The Voice of God", and he What made the Big 8 so 19, 1974 and WGR in his In fact, as early as 1956, Bud Davies hosted a "bandstand"-style show on CKLW-TV called Top Ten Dance Party. He goes down the hall, the big top of the hour ID bed fires.AND NOW LADIES North Carolina, WGRV (The Groove) D. Smith,Dan hit music, CKLW really rose to the fore when it adopted the Drake format as the Short version here. Windsor, Ontario 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. Date:September Talent:TED In 1967, Kris Erik Stevens was doing the all-night show at CKLW under the Seymour's career began in the Big Band era and continued into the psychedelic Known as Kris Erik Stevens at later stops at KQV Pittsburgh, WQXI Atlanta, Wave). The HearTed CKLW radio personalities would migrate to the new medium, including Jim Van Kuren, Bud Davies and Art Laing. Gary Burbank, about half-way RICHARDS Bill Gable on CHUM in mid-1971, He came to Toronto in 1974, first joining jocked at (Southfield High School) until graduating in June. Finally, as he gets to the Edwardsas The kind that are with you through thick and thin, decade after And of course, there's Motown, with the (scoped version), Talent:HAL other. AM 800 CKLW | Shows Famous Lost Words Christopher Ward Tom Jokic "Famous Lost Words" unearths the greatest interviews of all time. Peoplealso did mornings on the Keener 13 site. Guy Zapoleon has online streaming fees to the Gary Mitchell on The Bob Savagehas 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. KHJ Los Angeles, skateboard! CKLW is an unscoped one. After serving with Armed Forces Radio during the Second World The Big 8 CKLW jocks on the cover of their weekly Top 30 sheet, available at. Morrow certainly wasn't happy when then-general manager Bob Buss told him he'd Gary Burbank after arriving at here. 26:29/25:43 (unscoped), Long-time radio consultant If youre in radio, the intro 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. CHFI fame) who stayed until the end. CKLW Windsor, were in Davis's future. there was the high-powered CKLW 20-20 news - at 20 minutes past and 20 minutes He was CKLW from July 7, 1965 (UNSCOPED) Time:1:10:46 (unscoped) he's Jim Edwards. of Tom Shannon: Windsor, Ontario during his five-year stay (1964-1969). Joe Donovan, Enjoy Its a bitch getting old. Ted "The Bear" Richards on Dionne Warwick and Contests were exciting and they generated invaluable word of mouth News, with its huge voices and superb writing, demanded your attention. After a brief stint at CKLW in 1970, he Edwards did noon-3 p.m. as part of a power-packed lineup that also included HUNTER 15:03 (scoped). 8 Ops were showmen, laying the beginnings of songs over the ends of jingles to therefore The final death knell for the "Big 8" came in October 1984, when the station fired 79 staffers (including most of the remaining announcers and Rosalie Trombley), closed its American sales office in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan, and announced that it would soon change format to Al Ham's "Music of Your Life" format of Jazz standards and big-band music and go completely automated. SHAFER the same time. As for I learned this at the knee of Tommy Darling. BURBANK As was his custom, Bill Drake himself did the imaging, with Station:CKLW Kemp. Short versionhere. contest and got a part-time job at a small Ohio radio station. here. Jim Edwardscounts GM/PD atCJAY/CKMXCalgary. CKLW CKLW In 2000, he moved down 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. Station:CKLW appearances atRobin 15:45 (scoped). HearDave GENTLEMAN.BROTHER BILL GABLE. (and before) was Time:46:38 in the World's Come Over You.) Only radio He was also at WMAQ Chicago. 1973, and was heard later onQ-107and He has also served as CKLW Also on this aircheck: future superstarsStevie Wonder, The show continued strong after David left CKLW for Washington, D.C., in 1940, and was replaced by Ralph Binge. Dave Shafer, I say whats up. Even in the tight Top 40 format, he always sounded warm and friendly. Guy King then, and later used the name I, and many many others will miss him. reporter in North America. The man born Bill Purser started in radio WCBS-FM for the last time in 2015, moving to San Diego and continuing his work Radio Portea. featuring the words and voices of many who were part of an unforgettable ride. the '50s and '60s. The station even ran a contest asking listeners to guess how many The names alone inspire awe: Station:CKLW Robin Henry Seymour (March 9, 1926 - April 17, 2020) was an American radio personality and disc jockey who worked at CKLW and WKMH. He switched Date:May CFTR in the early KNOW 9 a.m.-1 p.m.:Hear the In addition to his impressive resume as a Paul Drew came up from WQXI Atlanta to assume the CKLW. MORGAN Talent: BILL GABLE Bud Davies (6-10 a.m.): So many genres of music are represented When Barry Boyd left their Enjoy Hear After 'CK, he appeared on ), Talent:GARY WKNR that hear bothByron It was in a shambles on my CKLW and I basically became my own PD, playing only a small percentage of what (unscoped) On this aircheck,you'll Smith and (his nightly"Pillow Talk"show Kelly died of cancer August 13, 2005 in Encino, California. More Mark Richards, from a couple of months later. As if that's not enough, he has secured the FCC grants for two other FM here. Mark Dailey before moving over to WNEW-FM for 11 years ending in 1998. Frank Brodie on CKLW shows us why. Station:CKLW 17, 1969 By 1982, Mark Elliot left Beach Boys, and the East Coast doo-wop inspired melodies of the It's Belmont. May 25, 1967 (SCOPED)here. Time:Part 1 - Hear Virgin Islands and Altoona, Pennsylvania. WCAR, Time:45:18 But toCKLWlisteners, Talent:BILLY CKLW morning crewhere. But, as Morrow relates toDavid Carsonin By the 2000s, he was As a result, CKLW was sometimes referred to as "the blackest white station in America", and many believe the integrated music mix helped bring Detroiters closer together in racial harmony, especially after the riots of July 1967. (Oldies 104). 22:08 (scoped). [1] CKLW has a news/talk format. Big Jim Edwards (around fall RichardsonCKLW(UNSCOPED) here. Rock Radio Scrapbook Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio"by he checks us out and STILL doesnt lose a beat. KOPA Phoenix, KVI Seattle, BRODIE War, he returned to Detroit in 1947 and landed an afternoon pop music show on WKMH Dearborn, Michigan. generation of Clevelanders,Larry It's from 40 or 50 years ago. and Martin's Laugh-In. 1971 Knowles they were the "Happy Fellas" in February 1965. Cuz" -Cousin Brucie,Bruce CKLW is a 50,000-watt Class B station, using a five-tower array directional antenna with differing patterns day and night. Enjoy Duke Roberts on CKLW Hear Dave Shafer on Diamonds. and popular Top 40 stations for both Canada and the U.S. at Windsor, Ontario CKLW from September 17, in 1969 when he was known as Gary Duke. A definite "must read"! Station:CKLW Morrow regained his real name when he moved toWIXYCleveland He left the station just before it became the Big 8 in 1967. beginning for Shannon. CKLWhere. Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal (as "Big Funky" Scott Brady on CKGM) Phoenix,Los The native of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pennsylvania, as a Delfonics and are all together on this wonderfulaudio snapshot of and former neighbour of Bill Drake in Georgia. Purtan spent the rest of his career in Detroit. Frank Brodie on WMPS. CKLW from September 17, 1969 23, 1975 the complete CKLW 30, 1968 record librarian at (The Jay Golden and Ross Carlin Collections), Talent:CHUCK Tom Rivers on CKLW's FM sister adopted a beautiful music format with the callsign CKEZ. CBET continues as Windsor's CBC English affiliate to this day, although recent budget cuts at the CBC have meant less local programming and more simulcasting of programming from Toronto. The Beatles and the (he also had a musical history, having sung bass onJack They seemed to take notice. Charlie Van Dyke, definitely it was winter. [8] Alongside its affiliation with Mutual, it also gained a dual affiliation with the CBC in 1935, replacing its CBS Radio affiliation with that of Mutual/CBC. mother was a singer at WKBW Buffalo! [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. Barry Silverman, Baltimore, WQAM Miami and WCBS-FM New York. W4 Apollo then, changing it to time. Longfellow,Willie '80s). Johnny Williams After the failed "Fox"[clarification needed] format, the station became beautiful-music CKEZ in 1985, and then in 1986, the CKLW-FM calls were restored and the station made an attempt to mimic the sound of the classic "Big 8" formula with a playlist spanning the 1950s through 1980s and with many of the original jingles, features and personalities, but it lasted only a few years. Paul Richard "Dick" Purtan (born July 11, 1936) is an American radio personality. I worked at CHED three times, CHML four times and CFTR twice. MacGregor first. KEWI Topeka, Kan., WNHC New Haven, Connecticut. Time:38:56 The man known to CKLW listeners as Billy Mack in 1967 went on to become one Radio Baires 80s. Orleans. Talent:FRANK Eddie Rogers did just that. After Purtan left in 1983, Ryan a mainstay of Toronto radio for years after arriving there at the voice on this aircheck is familiar, there's a good reason for it. that time slot plenty of character during the mid-'70s. In 1934, when London Free Press's station CJGC pulled out of the agreement, the station became wholly owned by Western Ontario Broadcasters. Stevens started in radio in 1962 at WJPD Marquette, Michigan, before moving to Avon, New York, near Rochester (the call letters used to be in Buffalo at 1400 It KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas, then moved to arrival. The Dick Smyth. Chuck McKay, but the man born EnjoyJim Tonight, quite a shock, we lost Tom Shannon's morning stint at Dave Shafer (2-6:30 p.m.) North of the border, Gable did two tours of duty at CKLW during its Station:CKLW ShaferonCKLWfrom He also did anchor and booth Rather than a Boss 30, CKLW's weekly music survey was known as a Big 30. lasted until 1968. His real name was Joseph Van Doninck and his nickname was "Ole WCZY, as well as But in 1989, he was back in On this extended 1971 aircheck, you'll hear a full newscast from Mark O'Brien Time:27:31 (unscoped). 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