Rosalie Trombley, the golden-eared tastemaker who became one of North America’s most powerful radio programmers, died Tuesday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, her family said. She was 82. As ...
This story, chronicling the notorious newscasts on popular CKLW-AM, ran in the Free Press Sunday magazine Jan. 28, 1973. It has been edited for length and content. The tabloid approach to covering the ...
Sean Ross remembers listening to legendary Canadian AM station CKLW and it's playlist of songs by Bob Seger, James Brown, BTO and Funkadelic. By Sean Ross The excellent Juno Awards tribute to Rosalie ...
CKLW 800 AM was THE radio station for NPR's Don Gonyea where he grew up outside Detroit, Michigan. It was his primary source for music and entertainment in the 1960s and 70s, as it was for many young ...
As music director for CKLW, a major radio station in the Detroit market, she furthered the careers of Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, the Temptations and many others. By Neil Genzlinger Whatever story you ...
On May 8, at Canadian Music Week, veteran Toronto-based programmer Liz Janik will receive an award named for legendary CKLW Detroit music director Rosalie Trombley. The award is actually for female… ...
Michael McNamara's exuberantly nostalgic "Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8" should play well with baby boomers receptive to blasts from the past. Docu offers affectionate and ...
DETROIT Ed Buterbaugh would have made most anyone’s list of the “most respected” engineers. That probably never really mattered to Buterbaugh. Friends say that whether he was building new radio ...
On Nov. 14, 1974, an AM radio station in Southwestern Ontario welcomed an unlikely guest disc jockey: Elton John. Billed as “EJ the DJ,” the British pop star sat in on Windsor’s AM800 CKLW (a.k.a.
A prominent voice of morning radio in Windsor and Essex County is signing off for the last time. After 38 years with AM800 CKLW, Lisa Williams, 57, says goodbye to the station and her dedicated ...