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 ...

CKLW radio in Windsor is reporting that former Red Wing Bob Probert has died at the age of 45 after being rushed to a Windsor hospital with no vital signs. The Windsor Star provides some details: July ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 a kid growing up in the Detroit area in the 70’s, I found the lure of rock-and-roll and R&B music blasting out from rock radio pioneers CKLW, WWWW and WRIF totally irresistible. I spent hours ...