Back when I was in radio at WPEN in Philadelphia, we had a real ‘rock and roll’ news department. Our newsmen (and women) made sure their copy was always snappy with lots of alliteration and plays on words.
Our news presence would never have been characterized as serious.
Bruce Erik Smallwood (all our newspeople had middle names, whether they did or not!) once said of the local electric company, “Ready Kilowatt says his costs are up, so he’s going to have to (pregnant pause, then with inflection) up yours!”
We were good, but we were posers compared to CKLW, a station licensed to Windsor, Ontario, but really serving Detroit. Recently, I was sent a link for a story about CK’s newsroom, which I thought I’d post here.
If you were a radio fan in to 70s, you’ll enjoy this.
I remember back in the 1960s in NJ picking up CKLW late at night. The music wasn’t much different than the music from WABC or WMCA, but there was something special tuning into a station from Windsor/Detroit.
David
what was your middle name?
Wow. A “blast from the past”…I’m one who truly misses radio. I find myself pining away for the likes of the great AM New York stations and the DJs such as Murray the K, Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie. I think I almost remember the early morning hours show called “The Night Light” on 1010 WINS when they played music? Now I’m giving away my advanced age… Evi
Showers and …. THUNDER showers were frequent on Monument Drive that Summer of 1979.