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Category: Detroit/Windsor
Don Geronimo, 93.1 WDRQ Detroit | January, 1980
Notice, there’s a LOT of Rock product on the air on this Top 40 station. It seems WDRQ may have taken a few cues from WLS and it’s “Rock-40” format.
When The Big 8 Still Served Detroit – Scott Miller, 800 CKLW Windsor | April, 1980
Billing itself as “The Great Entertainer”, here’s a bit more subdued CKLW in the cold Spring of 1980.
Bill Bailey, Morning Drive on 93.1 WDRQ Detroit | November 27, 1974
Bill Bailey (left, shown at WWDJ Hackensack NJ) is featured on this roughly 30-minute telescoped aircheck of the morning show at 93.1 WDRQ Detroit. This came to us on a 12″ reel of tape from the WDRQ skimmer reel machine. It was donated to Airchexx by his wife, Sandy Bailey after finding us while looking…
Rob Johnson on FM98 WJLB Detroit | September 1984
WJLB FM98 Detroit – Rob Johnson – September 1984 Courtesy: Steve Apel This aircheck featured Detroit’s longtime R&B station, WJLB FM 98. WJLB started out as an AM station, but as FM became more dominant, they moved the popular R&B format to FM. At the time of this recording, WJLB was winning…
Ted Richards & Johnny Williams, on AM 800 CKLW Detroit (Windsor) | December 1981
CKLW AM 800 Detroit – Ted Richards & Johnny Williams – December 1981 Ted “The Bear” Richards was one of the smoothest and longest running jocks on CKLW, Ted Richards started at ‘CK in 1972 and was there until the end of the *Big 8* era in 1984. According to the Rock Radio Scrapbook…
1960’s KEENER 13 Production and Promotions Reel – WKNR Detroit
This begins with a jock promo, with each jock adding his name to it. You’ll hear Dick Purtan, Ted Clark, Jerry Goodwin, Bob Green, Scott Reegan, Jim Jeffries, Paul Cannon (who later went on to much bigger things) and… Rodney the wonder rodent?! Someone get a trap!
Gary Burbank, The Big 8 CKLW Detroit | 1974
Gary Burbank was one of Cincinnati’s most beloved on-air personalities. But before he became a radio giant on WLW, Gary worked at some legendary stations on the way to Cincy. Burbank was one of the first white disc jockeys at Memphis’ groundbreaking R&B station, WDIA. In the late 60s, Gary landed a gig at…
1310 WKNR “Keener 13” Detroit | March, 1964
The topic of this jock’s show is not the music, but rather, the fact that the phone company has told the station that it can only use ONE listener line. Apparently, the station blew out one of the lines and the utility decided it can’t have the station tying up those resources.
