The CKLW BIG 50 (plus) hits in Windsor/Detroit. This survey was tabulated overall by record popularity appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of CKLW Radio. (1964)
Previewed for the week of March 24-30, 1964
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A special THANKS to Ray Tessier, of Allen Park, MI., for recently contributing this CKLW March 1964 survey chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks. 🙂
CKLW 20/20 NEWS | DICK SMYTH | DATE:MONDAY, MAY 26, 1969
REMEMBERING DICK SMYTH
— MARCH 6, 2021 —
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Today, Motor City Radio Flashbacks pay homage to the memory of famed Canadian news broadcaster and veteran radio news director, Dick Smyth. His voice was heard daily over the Detroit and Windsor airwaves on CKLW in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was also news director at CHUM, CFTR, and later, 680 NEWS.
While in hospice care, Dick Smyth passed away, Saturday, March 6. He was 86.
For more on the passing of Dick Smythe, pleasego here.
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends heartfelt condolences to the Smyth family
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Audio source from the Motor City Radio Flashbacks archive.
THE MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS AIRCHECKS COLLECTION
Photo Inscription (written on the back of second photo): “Shutty (9 AM) landing after 3 hours of traffic reporting from helicopter for CKLW.” (Photos: Ira Rosenberg; November 7, 1974)
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Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2021. Newspapers.com
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“The listing of 30 records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, listener requests and CKLW’s judgement of the record’s appeal.”
PREVIEWED FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 6-13, 1967
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— In MemoryofGeorge Griggs —
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
When this CKLW daytime coverage pattern card was published in the early-1980s, CKLW was picked up clearly as far off as Toledo and Cleveland (where it was consistently a highly rated station during its Top 40 days), Lansing, Michigan, and even the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio.
It has been reported the CKLW night-time reception was picked up (E.; S.; S. mid W.) as far off as Toronto/Oshawa, Ontario; Hartford, Connecticut; Pennsylvania; New York City; Little Rock; Des Moines, Iowa; and San Antonio, Texas.
By the late 1960s, it was reported that CKLW could be heard in at least 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
During CKLW’s Top 40 heyday, because of its nighttime directional pattern, the station was frequently heard in Scandinavia, but was often rendered unlistenable just a few hundred miles to the west and south of Detroit because of interference from the Juarez and/or Bonaire stations.
At one time, before end of 1970, with its massive 50,000 watts of transmitted power, the Windsor, Ontario 800 AM station was the third most listened to Top 40 radio station in all of North America. Behind WLS in Chicago and WABC in New York City.
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The below post is courtesy of Amy Confer — January 6, 2020:
Tough to report we lost legendary 20/20 newsman Grant Hudson (Jim Reese) to cancer on Dec. 16. This tribute is by his former mate Amy Confer:
“ I wasn’t sure how else to get this out to people who might want to know, so . . . Jim passed away December 16 after a very lengthy battle with cancer.
James (Jim) Raymond Reese III was born 4/4/44 in Hagerstown, MD. He always liked the symmetry of that. He was the son of a divorced fundamentalist preacher and a home maker. He lived in various small towns in MD, VA and PA growing up. He loved the time he got to spend on South Mountain, PA and remembered fondly having the entire mountain to explore and the freedom to do so. It will come as no surprise to anyone who knew him that Jim hated school, not because he wasn’t an avid learner, he was, but because he hated authority and ‘having’ to do anything.
Jim did his first radio gig at 15 on one of his dad’s radio stations and, yes, according to him, he had that voice even then. He was very nearly continually on the air from then until his death at 76.
Grant Charles Hudson was ‘born’ in early 1971 in the newsroom at CKLW when news director Byron MacGregor yelled, ‘Try using Brent’ just as Jim went in to read the news having only decided on using “Hudson” as his last name. Grant Hudson it was when he misheard.
He was a rock n roll jock (WVAM), a country announcer (CKLW FM – yep), station manager (WNOE in New Orleans), a station owner (WJRB in Bradenton), but most of all, he was a newsman. His career as one of the Big 8 newsmen is legendary, but he was also on drive time at WWJ with Joe Donovan, WCAR, WFLA, WSRQ, WOWO and many other stations.
It was Grant, not Byron MacGregor, who first read The Americans (by Gordon Sinclair) on the air at CKLW. Unfortunately, Grant was an American, so when Westbound Records asked for it to be recorded, they asked Byron to do it. It went on to sell 3.5 million copies.
One of his favorite stories about that time was when he did strident, in your face news for CKLW as Grant Hudson, would get off his shift, drive to the CBC affiliate where he would be introduced, ‘And now, news reader, James Reese,’ all somber and straight forward. The station manager for the CBC affiliate would sometimes rail about those awful people at CKLW, ruining the news . . . especially that Grant Hudson.
Jim was a voracious reader and had a keen and passionate mind. He started, but never finished, a book on how ancient Sumerian and Egyptian texts seemed to reveal an even more ancient, alien even, civilization. His politics were, as he would say, ‘Just to the right of Atilla the Hun,’ being perhaps even further right than the average far right libertarian. He was happiest when he could sit in a chair with a dog or two in his lap, a cup of coffee by his side and read.
Both Jim and Grant could strike up a conversation with anyone at any time for any or no reason. After a 30 minute phone call one day, I asked who he was talking to and he said, ‘I don’t know, it was a wrong number, but they were calling from New Orleans.’
Jim is survived by daughter Tiffany, grandson James, brother David, sister Carol and several half siblings. He is preceded in death by his son James (Jimbo), ex-wife Karen and both parents.
And I believe he would have loved the symmetry of dying in 2020.”
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(Courtesy of CKLW Facebook Page. Posted on January 6, 2021)
CKLW Joe Donovan and Grant Hudson(Photo courtesy Charlie O’Brien; The Big 8 CKLW Facebook Page)
— IN MEMORY —
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Grant Hudson was one of the best newscasters CKLW 20/20 news ever produced. Having said, the talent was there and present on day one.
Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends our heartfelt condolences to the Reese family.
Godspeed, Grant Hudson. R.I.P.
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CKLW Big 8 Break courtesy the Charlie O’Brien You Tube Channel
THE BIG 80 RECORDS HAS BEEN COMPILED FROM CKLW WEEKLY BIG 30 CHARTS, REFLECTING TOTAL RECORD SALES AND REQUESTS.
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PREVIEWED FOR DECEMBER YEAR-ENDING 1976
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— In MemoryofGeorge Griggs —
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
“The listing of records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, listener requests and CKLW’s judgement of the record’s appeal.”
PREVIEWED FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 10-16, 1968
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— In MemoryofGeorge Griggs —
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
“The listing of records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, listener requests and CKLW’s judgement of the record’s appeal.”
PREVIEWED FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 3-9 1968
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— In MemoryofGeorge Griggs —
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
