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 ...

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 ...

The trailblazer served as music director at influential Windsor radio station CKLW-AM/The Big 8 for nearly 20 years. By Karen Bliss Canadian broadcast legend Rosalie Trombley, a trailblazer for women ...

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 ...

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 ...

CKWW took to the air in 1964 to answer complaints that Windsor’s other radio station, CKLW — now known as AM800 — was too focused on attracting an audience from the U.S., and its commercial rates were ...

Windsor’s annual street party will this year pay tribute to a local radio pioneer and hitmaker remembered as the “girl with the golden ear.” Open Streets Windsor — “The Big 8 Kilometre Edition” — will ...

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.

Long before the internet, in the glory days of AM radio, a powerful signal would creep out across the continent come nightfall. This is part of the reason why CKLW from Windsor, Ontario, boasting ...