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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Previous to coming to Detroit at WKNR "Keener 13" in 1965, Purtan worked at WOLF in Syracuse, New York and WSAI in Cincinnati; he began his radio career in his hometown of Buffalo, New York at WWOL under the station-mandated name "Guy King" [1] and also worked for a very short time at WBAL in Baltimore (only to be forced to leave the station ...
Scottish actor Callum Kerr is speaking out after the brutal slayings of his mother and stepfather.. Callum, 30, shared a statement, which speaks for several members of the couple’s family, on ...
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]
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 ...
Hollywood is mourning the death of Emmy-nominated actor John Amos, who died of natural causes at the age of 84 on Aug. 21, his son Kelly Christopher "K.C." Amos confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE ...