Roger Ashby & Mike Holland Morning Show on 1050 CHUM | April 26, 1985

Mar 01, 2008 6 Comments

From Adam Greenberg in Toronto comes this vintage 1985 CHR ‘check of “HitRadio” 1050 CHUM. The HitRadio monikker was used at a lot of U.S. stations in the 80s, and here’s Canada’s first Top 40 station also using it.

One of the great things about CHUM was the fact that they stayed with CHR for a long time after most American AM stations had moved on to other things. Part of it likely was the fact that Canada’s version of the FCC, the CTRC, really kept the AM band going… for one thing, the government licenses FORMATS to stations, something the free market-minded USA wouldn’t ever go for. Canadian listeners can elaborate further by commenting on this aircheck.

You WILL love this aircheck. Running about 21 minutes, scoped, the Ashby/Holland morning show is unbelievably good, including a talent contest (in the last 4 minutes). The audio quality is quite good also, since this is an original recording.

1050 CHUM Toronto

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Adam Greenberg, Toronto

6 Responses to “Roger Ashby & Mike Holland Morning Show on 1050 CHUM | April 26, 1985”

  1. harley Reply Aug 06, 2008 at 1:39 am

    i remember mike holland as a singer, but i can’t remember how he spelled his song, and artist name
    i remember he was called michael boeay, and he had a couple of songs on the charts
    the furrier, and can i come around,
    does anybody remember the correct spelling

  2. Radioman Reply Sep 06, 2008 at 11:00 am

    Michael Bouyea. Check out his utube clip….

  3. bruce eisenhauer Reply Dec 22, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    I used to be the roady for Mike’s band back in the 6o’s It was called The Squires. We where in high school. I’ll never forget the time that Mike talked my mother into letting me skip school to go to New York city to audition at club 54.

    • JoeM Reply Mar 12, 2009 at 5:00 am

      Bruce,
      If your mom let you work for Ernie Giramondi, then being talked into anything by silver tongued Mike should not have been difficult.

  4. DavidB Reply Jan 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    ….not so much that formats were licensed but rather the TYPE of music a station could play. For FM there existed the “hit – non-hit rule”. Basicly, for every hit record you played, you had to pull a real dog out of the library and play it. This gave AM a real advantage because there you could play all hits all the time.
    The other thing to remember is that, underlying all this, were can-con (Canadian Content) regulations that stipulated that 40% of your playlist had to include Canadian content as defined by the MAPL point system (Manufacture, Artist, Production, Lyrics) To qualify as Candian, it had to have at least a score of two out of 4 on the point system. It made compiling a play list a real science — at the college station we used to use que cards and simply arranged and re-arranged them to ensure that we didn’t run afoul of the regulations. At the end of a shift we would then use them to record what we played for the ststion log since they would still be in order….

    • Steve West Reply Jan 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm

      Thanks for that explanation. I never understood exactly how the Can-con regs worked, but that gives us all some insight into the inner workings. I’m sure there’s more to it than that. Seeing as you worked in Canadian radio perhaps you can open up the gates and really explain the whole Anglo/French regs also… Marc “Mais Oui” Denis explained some of it to me, and he really would be the expert, but he doesn’t come to this site much these days.