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Trombley and her then-husband Clayton moved to Windsor, and she was hired in 1963 to work as a part-time switchboard operator and receptionist at CKLW. [5] [6] After becoming familiar with how a top 40 station worked, she accepted a position in the music library, and in the fall of 1968, she was offered a full-time position as CKLW's music director, [7] a job she later attributed to "being in ...
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 ...
Thomas Shannon (August 11, 1938 – May 26, 2021) [1] was an American broadcaster from Buffalo, New York. [2]Shannon was born in Buffalo, New York, [2] and graduated from Bishop Timon – St. Jude High School in 1956 and Buffalo State College in 1960. [1]
Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY February 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM Al Trautwig, an iconic New York City sports broadcaster who covered the area for more than 30 years and did multiple Olympic Games, died at ...
Byron MacGregor (born Gary Lachlan Mack; March 3, 1948 – January 3, 1995) [1] was a Canadian radio and TV news anchor, news director, and recording artist. He received a "LegendsInduction" into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2024. [2]
St. John was born in Detroit and was raised on the music of Motown.In early 1969, at the age of 18, he landed his first gig as a radio personality on Windsor's CKLW, where he also worked for CKLW's 20/20 news doing newscasts one day a week, and part-time booth announcing on CKLW-TV Channel 9.
Burbank founded and co-owned Burbank's Real Bar-B-Q and Ribs restaurant in Sharonville, Ohio.In December 2009, the restaurant closed. The Sharonville restaurant was the first to open and last to close. There were others, including one at I-75 and US 42 in Florence, Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky and one on Colonel Glenn Highway in Fairborn, Ohio near Wright State University and Wright ...
Seymour's afternoon "Bobbin' with Robin Show" featured all the top records on the music press sales charts. He pioneered rock-and-roll on the Detroit airwaves before the Top 40 format emerged. In the mid-50s, Seymour was among the first of the nation's DJs to ask his listeners what they thought about new records.