3250 Franklin St. “, considering this radio station can't … Come find the top new songs, playlists, and music! Subscribe to our Newsletter. 93.9 is now CIDR-FM, with an AAA (Adult Album Alternative) format as "93.9 The River", using the positioner "it's about the music". During this period it was the top-rated radio station not only in Windsor, but across the river in Detroit, and even in cities as far away as Toledo and Cleveland in Ohio. They contain rankings of radio stations by Average Minute Audience, Average Daily Cume, and Share.

In 1934, when London Free Press's station CJGC pulled out of the agreement, the station's ownership became wholly owned by Western Ontario Broadcasters. Hits Gentile and Binge were a fixture on CKLW until moving to WJBK radio (now WLQV) in 1948, attracting audience ratings as high as 80% at their peak.

The Riverside studios would be sold to London-based Clayland Developments Ltd. in September 2014, though the CBC will be leasing space for their local operations. RKO-General's History, and its relationship with CKLW-AM, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CKLW&oldid=980104731, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2014, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 16:54. Rock, Arabic Ratings improved dramatically, as the station shot back into the Top 10, although the demographics of the station's audience were now substantially older. Another female employee of CKLW who helped break down gender barriers was reporter Jo-Jo Shutty-MacGregor (the wife of Byron MacGregor), the first female helicopter traffic/news reporter in North America.

HOT 102.7 1 Radio Stations. And instead of calling itself Boss Radio, CKLW called itself The Big 8. Rock, Hip Hop This was the first time that this particular award had ever been given to a Canadian broadcaster. When Mutual was restructured as a cooperative in 1940, CKLW was one of the major shareholders in the network. Talk, Adult These hopes were dashed when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) refused to approve the format change on anything more than an "experimental" basis, reasoning that FM was for "fine" music and that Top 40 music belonged on AM.

CKLW is 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, with reports of night-time reception as far off as Toronto/Oshawa, Ontario; Hartford, Connecticut; Pennsylvania; New York City; Little Rock; Des Moines, Iowa; and San Antonio, Texas. At one point, it was stated that CKLW could be heard in at least 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces. CKLW was an internationally known Top 40 station in the 1960s and 1970s.

By creating an account, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the, All Canadian Radio - Pop/Rock/Alternative, Essex County, ON, Canada Amateur Repeaters - VE3III. Talk, Alternative The Station was built by George Storer[4] and was sold to a group of Windsor-area businessmen led by Malcolm Campbell, operating as "Essex Broadcasters, Ltd." CKOK became CKLW (and moved to 840 kHz)[5] in 1933, when Essex Broadcasters, Ltd. merged with the London Free Press and its station CJGC (now CFPL), and became "Western Ontario Broadcasting", which was co-owned by Essex Broadcasters, and the London Free Press. For the station to be heard as far west as Arkansas, Iowa and Texas is impressive, given the station is not a "clear channel" Class A station, and has extreme northward/eastward nighttime directional signal in order to protect stations on 800 kHz in Ciudad Juárez (clear channel XEROK-AM across the river from El Paso, Texas). Although having to play 30% "CanCon" songs that generated little in the way of sales put the station at a competitive disadvantage compared to its U.S.-based competition, CKLW still managed to help break a number of Canadian songs and artists in the United States.

During this era, CKLW used a tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake. In 2015, CKLW began airing its first music program, Here + Now (pronounced "Here and Now", formerly Into Tomorrow) in over twenty years (having switched formats with sister CKWW, becoming all-news in 1993). CKLW is a 50,000-watt, Class B, AM radio station broadcasting on the frequency of 800 kHz (AM) and located in Windsor, Ontario, serving Windsor and Detroit. Rock, Hip Hop Pop