CHARLIE O’BRIEN CKLWaircheck date (unknown): JULY 1975
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The CKLW BIG 30 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.
Previewed for the week of OCTOBER 22-28 1974
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Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
The Honor Roll of Hits comprises the nation’s top tunes according to record sales and sheet sales, disk jockey and jukebox performances as determined by The Billboard’s weekly nationwide sales.
WJBK | WXYZ | WKMH | CKLW
The Billboard (week-ending) October 6-12 1957 Honor Roll of Hits featured 30 of the most popular radio air plays covering four Detroit top 40 radio stations on the AM dial in 1957.
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The WJBK FORMULA 40 hits was compiled, tabulated and produced by Radio 1500’s Bob Martin and Rosemary McGann.
This survey was tabulated overall by each record’s popularity and its appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of WJBK Radio.
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Previewed for the week of October 14, 1957
Note: By year’s end, 1957, Casey Kasem was no longer at WJBK 1500. Kasem left Detroit for Buffalo’s WBNY, New York, November 1957. To fill Kasem’s departure, Dan Baxter became the new replacement. Baxter was hired for the all-night shift on WJBK.
Eventually, by early-1958 Tom Clay would fill the time slot allocated the same hours Casey Kasem held prior his exit on WJBK.
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Above WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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SCOTT REGEN WCARaircheck date: TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1972
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A staff memo from the desk of Joel Lind, WNIC programmer (1986-1988)
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Johnny Williams joined the airstaff in late 1985 and was hired to replace Alan Almond (Pillow Talk; 7-12M) who left WNIC for WMJC (Candlelight) in November 1985.
While I was employed there (1983-1987), Jim Harper, morning host and program director at WNIC, left for WDTX 95.5 in July 1986. Joel Lind, replacing Harper, was hired as WNIC station programmer in May, 1986.
This was a typical memo having affirmed the station’s quarterly ratings – congratulatory in scope – as was penned by the WNIC program director. Attached to the above memo as well was a letter written by a former WMJC listener to Johnny Williams of which Joel Lind alluded to in the memo (see below).
From the programmer. As it was 33 years ago. 100.3 FM WNIC . . . ‘Detroit’s Nicest Rock’.
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IN THIS March 20, 1987 page from Radio & Records, former WNIC Program Director Dave Ervin (Chicago; WCLR) and then-current WNIC programmer Joel Lind both weigh in on the success of the Pillow Talk concept in radio from its beginnings at WNIC (Detroit market) under Alan Almond (WMJC) to its current Pillow Talk host on WNIC 100.3, Johnny Williams.
Extending beyond the Detroit market, The ‘Pillow Talk’ concept has largely generated respectable evening audience shares in several markets around the country. Similarly, the Detroit-based “romance” format found their place on FM radio in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Tampa.
The published R&R article was copied and made available to the entire WNIC staff by program director Joel Lind at the time, of which I retained and have kept my copy, featured above.
RADIO & RECORDS
March 20, 1987
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