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Jack the Bellboy.
There were five WJBK personalities who used the JTB moniker in the 1950s and in the 1960s. Ed McKenzie (1951). Tom Clay (1958). Dave Shafer (1962). Terry Knight (1963). Robin Walker (1964).
One other fact: When Ed McKenzie left WJBK for WXYZ in 1952, WJBK retained legal rights to the moniker. Nobody else at WJBK would use the title until Tom Clay was hired in late 1957, when Casey Kasem left Detroit for Buffalo that year. In 1956-57, Casey Kasem had the same late-evening hours as Ed McKenzie, on WJBK. Offered the JTB title by the station, Kasem once stated he simply declined assuming the moniker during the short time while he was there.
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