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CKLW first came on the air on June 2, 1932, [3] as CKOK on 540 kilocycles, (which until 2013 was the long-time home of today's CBEF [4]) with 5,000 watts of power.The station was built by George Storer [5] and was sold to a group of Windsor-area businessmen led by Malcolm Campbell, operating as "Essex Broadcasters, Ltd." CKOK became CKLW (and moved to 840 kHz) [6] in 1933, when Essex ...
Under Baton's ownership, CKLW-FM had, by 1973, completely separated programming from its successful CHR AM sister. The FM station had a country format with news and talk oriented toward the Windsor audience (as opposed to the AM, which chiefly targeted the American side). During the 1970s, CKLW-FM was known as FM 94 (pronounced "FM nine four").
The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio ... following National Public Radio. c. 1 April: CKLW in Windsor, ... (AM)'s shared broadcast tower.
Swingin' Time was a music variety show, similar to American Bandstand, hosted by WKNR (Keener 13, Detroit) personality Robin Seymour and also, for a time, CKLW radio's Tom Shannon. [1] This show was broadcast on CKLW-TV Channel 9 (now CBET-DT) out of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, from 1965 to 1968, and also seen in a few other markets in ...
CIMX-FM (88.7 MHz, Pure Country 89) is a commercial radio station in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.It primarily serves Essex County, but has a signal that reaches the entire Detroit-Windsor metropolitan area.
Pat St. John (born February 12, 1951) is an American radio personality and voice-over artist. He began his radio career on Windsor, Ontario's CKLW (800 AM) in 1969 and 1970, followed by WKNR (1310 AM) in late 1970 to early 1972, followed by WRIF FM (101.1) to April 1973.
Due to other programming commitments, [6] the 1966-67 regular-season games were subleased to RKO General, which aired a series of Sunday afternoon broadcasts [7] [8] at 4 p.m. Eastern Time during the last eight weeks [9] of the regular season, starting on February 12, 1967.
Robin Henry Seymour (March 9, 1926 – April 17, 2020) was an American radio personality and disc jockey who worked at CKLW and WKMH. He was also the host of the television series Teen Town and Swingin' Time in Detroit. [1] He started in radio as a child actor on the Lone Ranger Show and eventually became one of the country's longest-serving ...