How GREAT Top 40 radio was done at Canadian powerhouse CKLW, The Big 8. The board operator spins all the songs on 45s and plays jingles and commercials on tape carts. The DJ in the other room does all the talking. Windsor, Ontario. 1967
That's board-op Colin Kennedy and DJ Johnny Williams behind the studio window. (man, did this this guy have a great, DEEP voice!)
For years as a teen in Milford, Connecticut, I could pick up CKLW at night and recorded them on hundreds of hours of tape. At 50,000 watts AM, they came in clearly on most evenings on the East Coast.
This was one of the tightest, fastest paced, dynamic and funky stations I've ever heard. Being within miles of Detroit, they played a lot of Motown and other R&B tunes you never heard anywhere else. In large part, my love of radio began in this little studio so far away from where I lived. In later years, I had my own Saturday evening radio show on a Connecticut FM station, strongly influenced by the sounds and pacing of CKLW.
How GREAT Top 40 radio was done at Canadian powerhouse CKLW, The Big 8. The board operator spins all the songs on 45s and plays jingles and commercials on tape carts. The DJ in the other room does all the talking. Windsor, Ontario. 1967
That's board-op Colin Kennedy and DJ Johnny Williams behind the studio window. (man, did this this guy have a great, DEEP voice!)
For years as a teen in Milford, Connecticut, I could pick up CKLW at night and recorded them on hundreds of hours of tape. At 50,000 watts AM, they came in clearly on most evenings on the East Coast.
This was one of the tightest, fastest paced, dynamic and funky stations I've ever heard. Being within miles of Detroit, they played a lot of Motown and other R&B tunes you never heard anywhere else. In large part, my love of radio began in this little studio so far away from where I lived. In later years, I had my own Saturday evening radio show on a Connecticut FM station, strongly influenced by the sounds and pacing of CKLW.