• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

CKLW and WJR Radio

Re: CKLW and Tammy Wynette

Goldilocks94941 said:
You gotta give CKLW credit for dipping into the edges of the pop format back then, too -- probably more during the daytime, since I recall a few surprises on the school bus ride every day back home to Point Place. Does anybody remember hearing Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" on CKLW?

They did, and I do. The song peaked at 10 on their chart. True Top 40 radio.
Click to expand...
 
I don't specifically remember hearing "Stand by Your Man" on CKLW, but don't doubt it was there. I don't join the chorus of pretending that I loved hearing Bobby Goldsboro slam into the Doors, or Donna Fargo into April Wine. I had not heard of "dayparting" when I was in junior high, but I knew if I had a sick day from school or we had a day off for weather or teacher's meetings, the music on CK was kinda gonna suck.
 
gr8oldies said:
...I had not heard of "dayparting" when I was in junior high, but I knew if I had a sick day from school or we had a day off for weather or teacher's meetings, the music on CK was kinda gonna suck...
Click to expand...

That's interesting. In the early 1970s, it never occurred to me that they dayparted music. I rarely heard them mornings or afternoons as I was in grade/high school. But by the time we were out for the day, they were rockin'. Now I'm wondering if I would've noticed the difference as some of you did. P.S. Tracked down the "Awaiting On You All" cover. It's by Silver Hawk apparently. CK added it April 5, 1971. Anyone know if it was Cancon?
 
It's too bad I didn't get to hear CKLW or WJR in its heyday. WJR still brings a big signal at night all the way to Charleston, SC, but the station is so much watered down from what it used to be. CKLW was a good station, from the airchecks, and WJR was the 50,000 watt voice of the Midwest.

Does anyone know when WJR stopped playing music?
 
At night, WJR vaguely comes in to Tampa. No trace of CKLW at all.
 
800 might had well been 1490 in most of the U.S. back in the day I got CKLW in Gainesville FL. Much more crowded frequency plus CKLW sends a lot of their night power straight east so as to avoid most of the U.S.
 
gr8oldies said:
800 might had well been 1490 in most of the U.S. back in the day I got CKLW in Gainesville FL. Much more crowded frequency plus CKLW sends a lot of their night power straight east so as to avoid most of the U.S.
Click to expand...
Gr8oldies,

Do you know when CKLW changed their nighttime pattern to go mostly east? You're certainly right about the 800 frequency being cluttered (along with many others; I guess we have more unofficial "graveyard" channels than ever before.) I did receive CKLW during this past winter, just once and that was the first time, I had been able to receive them in at leasat 4 or 5 years and the reception was pretty weak.

As far as 760 WJR, I'm about 25 miles s.w. of Tampa and I can't receive WJR at all due to the local 760, licensed to Brandon, FL (a suburb, east of Tampa); I'm in one of their nighttime lobs and they completely cover up WJR; can't even hear WJR in the background. The local 760 is regional Mexican and I can sometime hear Cuba in the background, but never WJR.

At my 2nd listening post about 73 miles n.n.e. of here, I can receive WJR albeit , a weak signal most nights. (That's assuming that the Brandon 760 doesn't "forget to power down", which they've had a good memory on that count lately, after a complaint got to the FCC.)

drt
 
gr8oldies said:
I'm thinking maybe 10 years ago, maybe a little more.
Click to expand...
Thanks, Gr8oldies!

That makes it more of a miracle that I received
CKLW this past winter in greater metro Ridge Manor East,FL (approx 49 miles due east of Orlando)

drt
 
gr8oldies said:
THAT was a good catch! What time of night? Around sunset or later?
Click to expand...
It was around 1 - 2 a.m.; Coast2Coast was on, this was either in late February or the first week of March.

Just glad that Cuba doesn't have a high powered station on that frequency.(at least not yet!)

Haven't received CKLW since, I try every time I'm up there; that's as close to Detroit as I be anytime soon........ until a trip to Albany,NY the last week of August; that should be a whole new dx'ing experience.(Actually hearing Radio Reloj under stations instead of over everything!)

Further south in St. Petersburg, the last time I received CKLW was about 1997 or 1998, IIRC.

drt
 
charlestondxman said:
Does anyone know when WJR stopped playing music?
Click to expand...
It was when Jimmy Lontz still worked there...had to have been around 97 or 98. I remember most of the music was short oldies. I recall Jimmy or Foster Brown doing mid-days & playing the Toys "A Lovers Concerto" before an interview with Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson).

btw...is it just my TWO computers or have the smileys on this site been dismantled?
 
610 WTVN in Columbus stopped playing music around that same time. I haven't listened lately but Sunday mornings Tom Campbell does a one hour music show (maybe called "Horizons???) with a different theme every week. a year or 2 ago I was impressed with the odd old Halloween classics he was playing a week or so before Halloween.
Technically, if you're lucky when Coast To Coast is on every so often George or Art let a tune slide in their entirety. Art's always good for letting Brandy by Looking Glass or Al Stewart's Year of the Cat. Just bumper songs "extended".
 
gr8oldies said:
At one time you had that huge 500,000 watt PJB in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles to contend with.
Click to expand...
Very true, now 800 is one of the very few quiet night time frequencies at least here (St. Petersburg); I can hear several weak signals, but so weak, that I can't identify them.

Just one step down at 790 is WLBE,Leesburg,FL with Radio Reloj underneath during the day and at night Radio Reloj rules that frequency with 790 out of Miami underneath.

drt

btw- Nightfly61; it's not just your computer, several people have commented about the "smileys" not working; I was hoping with the maintainance done on the site last weekend, that they "smileys" would be fixed.
 
Technically, if you're lucky when Coast To Coast is on every so often George or Art let a tune slide in their entirety. Art's always good for letting Brandy by Looking Glass or Al Stewart's Year of the Cat. Just bumper songs "extended".

[/quote]

If you're in range of CKLW's nighttime signal, it can briefly remind you of the old days.
 
Haven't been able to catch CKLW here in Atlanta yet, but ever since WSB-AM turned off their I-BLOC garbage, WJR is a daily catch for me in the morning.
 
I can remember listening to CKLW in Richmond VA back in the 60s and 70s. They had an ok signal, but not booming like WABC or WKBW. My memory was they sounded a lot like one of our local top 40s, WLEE. I think they might have been using the same jingle package. I've never picked up even a trace of CK here in the Carolinas, even in the 70s when AM was more reliable.
 
WLEE was truly great for a small market station. I guess Richmond really is not so small now. CKLW came in great in Pittsburgh back in the Sixties
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom