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 ...

Rosalie Trombley — who launched the careers of many rock bands as music director of CKLW The Big 8 — has died at the age of 82. Trombley is credited with launching the careers of The Guess Who, Gordon ...

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 ...

In 1963, AM radio station 800 CKLW in Windsor, Ontario became a full-time rock, pop, and R&B hit machine, servicing large swaths of Canada and—just across the border—the Detroit metro area. Within ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...