Station: 1280 CHIQ Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Featured Air Talent: Dave Mickey
Contributor: Russ Horton
Aircheck Entry: 1,441
Date of Contribution: 8.28.2016
Everybodys swingin and havin a ball on the Dave Mickey Show!
Comments:
The station once located at 1280 in Hamilton, Ontario is, and has been for several decades, 820 CHAM. A station that once was a pioneering Canadian Country station. Now, just an opinion here, but this kind of Top 40 radio done in the first half of the 1960s is precisely everything that formatically was wrong. A jock who rambles on about absolutely nothing, sings with nearly every record, music broken up by long stretches of station elements…
Still, the listeners LOVED it!
This is perhaps the magic that listeners to the Top 40 format opine about. You see, stations such as CHIQ exhibited here, were a teenage escape from the pressures of school and the expectations of fawning parents. Listening to the DJ was as much an escape as the music was. Its a magic that simply cannot be recreated today. Perhaps, its best that this kind of radio exist simply in the realm of museums such as ours. If you like, please feel free to comment below!
Very much like Barney Pip.
I spent many hours sitting in my dad’s 56 Buick listening to Dave Mickey on 1280. I was devastated when he left Hamilton. He didn’t quite sound the same in Brampton. Thanks for letting us listen to this Russ.
Met Dave Mickey in 1964 on his CHCH television show Club 11 in Hamilton. Probably the 1st TV star I met …..holds a special place in my heart.