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Early history and Top 40 format DJs
CHUM DJs of the 1960s were zany morning man Al Boliska, who quit in late 1963 to go 'across the street' to CKEY. He was replaced by WKBW Buffalo radio & TV personality Jay Nelson, popularly known as "Jungle Jay" from his role as host of a children's show on Buffalo's Channel 7 which was also popular among Toronto youngsters. He would be followed by housewives' jock John Spragge; singer/DJ Mike Darow; Pete Nordheimer, replaced in 1961 by witty Bob McAdorey; teen DJ Dave Johnson; and all night maven Bob Laine. Later additions to the CHUM DJ lineup included Duff Roman and Brian Skinner, both of whom came over from CKEY (then owned by Jack Kent Cooke).
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, CHUM DJ's included Duke Roberts (also known as Gary Duke for a time), Johnny Mitchell (better known today as Sonny Fox), J. Michael Wilson, Tom Rivers, Scott Carpenter, Jim Van Horne, John Rode, Don Reagan, John Majhor, Mike Cooper, Daryl B, Terry Steele and Roger Ashby. Among their later night-time hosts was J. D. Roberts, who joined CHUM in 1977, went on to co-host CTV's Canada AM in the early 1990s, and would eventually become known across North America as White House correspondent for CBS-TV and today hosts CNN's morning program American Morning.
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LINK TO TEXT AND AIRCHECK: Roger Ashby & Mike Holland Morning Show on 1050 CHUM April 26,
Roger Ashby & Mike Holland Morning Show on 1050 CHUM April 26, 1985
From Adam Greenberg in Toronto comes this vintage 1985 CHR ‘check of “HitRadio” 1050 CHUM. The HitRadio monikker was used at a lot of U.S. stations in the 80s, and here’s Canada’s first Top 40 station also using it.
One of the great things about CHUM was the fact that they stayed with CHR for a long time after most American AM stations had moved on to other things. Part of it likely was the fact that Canada’s version of the FCC, the CTRC, really kept the AM band going… for one thing, the government licenses FORMATS to stations, something the free market-minded USA wouldn’t ever go for. Canadian listeners can elaborate further by commenting on this aircheck.
LINK TO SITE AND AIRCHECK (AUDIO TRACKS):
Roger Ashby & Mike Holland Morning Show on 1050 CHUM April 26 ...
Jackson Armstrong, 1050 CHUM Toronto June, 1968
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1050 CHUM DJ JOHN MAJHOR
RELATED LINK: 1050 CHUM - 1050 CHUM John Majhor
LINK TO THE FOLLOWING: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/174224
YouTube Link: City TV Toronto Rocks promo 1984
TORONTO STAR
Jan 24, 2007 04:30 AM
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Tamara Cherry
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To a generation of Torontonians that came of age before MuchMusic, John Majhor was the iconic voice – and also face – of rock and roll.
Majhor was the rare charismatic radio personality who was able to make the transition easily to television. Quick on his bare feet – he disdained wearing shoes, finding "they bug me for some reason" – and sporting a silver hoop earring in his left lobe, his shining brown hair and flirtatious smile made him a commanding television presence.
He died yesterday morning, surrounded by family in his suburban Minnesota home following a five-month battle with cancer. He was 53.
During the '80s, he was CHUM's prime rock interviewer, rubbing shoulders with Elton John, Meat Loaf and George Harrison, to name a few. But to his family, he was all that and then some. ...http://www.thestar.com/News/article/174224
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1050 CHUM JOCK "TOM RIVERS'
Tom Rivers on 1050 CHUM May 8, 1981
LINK: Jock Lounge
Tom Rivers
Tom Rivers, who died Friday (11-19-04) of cancer, was a true Top 40 icon. He spent four decades in Top 40 radio, with stops at KFRC San Francisco, WIBG Philadelphia, CKLW Windsor, CFTR Toronto and several other top stations. But he is perhaps best remembered for his many years at CHUM Toronto, where he came and went several times between 1970 and 2004. Catch a net full of Tom's airchecks at the Rock Radio Scrapbook.
Toronto Star
Rivers loved rocking the boat
Former CHUM deejay used to rule the AM dial in Toronto Last of the rebels drove his listeners wild and his bosses up the wall
By Peter Goddard
Everything about Tom Rivers was big: His size (6-foot-8 "in round figures," as he'd say), his genuine talent for mayhem and his impact on Toronto.
His death yesterday, aged 57, after a battle against cancer, comes with a big reminder attached. The biker-like deejay was also one of the last great AM radio rock jocks here or in any rock 'n' roll town.
His greatest blast of publicity came in true rebel Rivers fashion in 1984 when the Canadian Labour Board ruled that CHUM unjustly fired him from his $65,000-a-year job in September 1982.
He wasn't entirely exonerated, though.
In her decision, adjudicator Jane Devlin took note of the rock deejay's unruly behaviour and apparent wilful inability to follow rules that led to his highly publicized dismissal - on his 35th birthday, yet - from the local Top 40 station. ...Jock Lounge
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1050 CHUM JOCK PHIL STONE
LINK: TheStar.com Obituary Phil Stone, 94: Brought rock 'n' roll to ...
Phil Stone, 94: Brought rock 'n' roll to Toronto
Before he spun the disc 'Rock Around the Clock' on CHUM, Canada had never heard such radio
May 06, 2008 04:30 AM
Philip Mascoll
Toronto Star
On May 27, 1957, at 4:23 p.m. in Toronto, CHUM broadcaster Phil Stone changed Canadian radio forever.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new sound for you and I hope you like it," he told his listeners.
"It goes like this ..."
He played "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets, the first rock 'n' roll piece ever played on radio in Canada.
Stone, who died last week aged 94, was a pioneer in many ways, his son Glen said in a telephone interview.
"The rock 'n' roll thing turned out to be a good idea," Glen Stone said. ...
Glen Stone said his father had been part of CHUM radio since the late 1940s and was there when it became a 24-hour Top 40 station..... Read more @ TheStar.com Obituary Phil Stone, 94: Brought rock 'n' roll to ...
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1050 CHUM THE RETURN OF DUKE ROBERTS - OVER 3 HOURS OF AUDIO - DIRECT LINKS BELOW
LINK: Duke Roberts Remembers - 1050-CHUM Jock 1969-1973 - Gary Duke ...
Duke Roberts has been heard across North America since the mid-60's, on radio stations, television ads & voiceovers, doing commercials, corporate presentations, narrations & documentaries.
He's also been heard on Armed Forces Radio & Television around the world.
Duke took time away from the microphone to build, buy, run, and sell six Florida radio stations.
Duke Roberts, the voice talent, is back - doing what he does best; with a fresh, well-trained, clean voice.
The voice says it all! Listen to the demos or Duke Roberts Remembers...
READ MORE AND/OR LISTEN TO A PIECE OF THE OLD 1050 CHUM Duke Roberts Remembers - 1050-CHUM Jock 1969-1973 - Gary Duke ...
AUDIO LINKS 3 HOURS OF UNEDITED AUDIO FROM 'DUKE ROBERTS LIVE' AND 'DUKE ROBERTS REMEMBERS':
AUDIO LINK: Hear Duke Roberts "Live" 3 hour (unedited) show from 2007 on 1050-CHUM, Toronto
TO SITE WITH AUDIO LINKS: "DukeRobertsRemembers" CHUM, Toronto
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1050 CHUM HISTORICAL SITES - 1050 CHUM DJ
Jim Van Horne (born David Melnyk on December 15, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian sports anchor.
Van Horne began his broadcasting career on CKMP in Midland, Ontario, in 1971. From 1972 to 1980, Van Horne was one of the top disc jockeys in Canada at 1050 CHUM in Toronto. He was named Billboard Magazine's Disc Jockey of the year in 1972, the only Canadian to ever claim the honour. From 1980 to 1984, he was the late night sports anchor for CFAC television in Calgary, while hosting the Calgary Flames' NHL broadcasts.
He moved on to a long career with TSN where he was a sportsanchor from the beginning of that sports network's history in 1984 until 2001. He took a couple years off television and returned to TSN's rival sports network Rogers Sportsnet in 2003.
LINK: Wapedia - Wiki: Jim Van Horne
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1050 CHUM EX-JOCK - BOB MAGEE
SITE LINK: CHUM (AM) at AllExperts
LINK: Bob Magee
Bob Magee (born December 13, 1949) is the professional name of Denny O'Neil, a Canadian radio personality and host of the afternoon drive time show on Toronto's CHFI-FM since 2003. From late 1999 to 2003, he co-hosted CHFI's morning show with Erin Davis.
Magee first joined Toronto's legendary top 40 powerhouse 1050 CHUM briefly in the early 1970s, before heading to Western Canada. He returned to CHUM in 1979, and became the station's morning host when it moved to full-time oldies in 1989. He was fired from that post in 1997.
For CHUM's fortieth anniversary as a top 40 station, Magee produced a documentary that aired on co-owned television station Citytv Toronto.
Magee subsequently joined the adult contemporary outlet CHFI, starting as a substitute host on swing shifts. He permanently replaced Don Daynard as Erin Davis' morning co-host on Magee's fiftieth birthday in 1999.
Magee was formerly married to the high-profile fashion journalist and broadcaster Jeanne Beker .
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LINK: John Gilbert (broadcaster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Gilbert (14 September 1930 – 14 September 1998) was a Canadian radio broadcaster.
Gilbert was a broadcaster with CJCH Halifax until Toronto's 1050 CHUM radio announced in February 1971 that he would succeed Larry Solway as host of the talk show Speak Your Mind. In 1973, he became the most successful radio talk show host in Canada with 120 000 measured listeners, more than Vancouver media legend Jack Webster. Gilbert's term with CHUM ended in 1977.
In 1980, Gilbert hosted Night Talk, a weekday late night program planned as a national talk show. However, the CRTC ordered that the network of stations broadcasting the programme be cut back to the six stations then owned by Maclean-Hunter: CFCN Calgary, CFCO Chatham, CHNS Halifax, CKGL-FM Kitchener, CKOY Ottawa and CKEY Toronto. However, this effort was short-lived. ....John Gilbert (broadcaster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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LINK:Kevin Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin's father, known to many as national radio legend Jungle Jay Nelson, worked at 1050 CHUM for 20 years.
LINK: Jay Nelson -
http://www.spock.com/Jay-Nelson
Jay Nelson (a.k.a. Frank Coxe and Jungle Jay Nelson) (July 12, 1936 – February 18, 1994) spent most of his career in radio, although he did a brief stint on television in the early 1960s. He was married twice and had four children. His son Kevin is one of the morning hosts on Majic 100 in Ottawa, Ontario.
He started in radio at WRIT in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1955. He then moved on to WARM in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1956; WHLO in Akron, Ohio in 1957; and WBNY in Buffalo, New York in 1960. He switched briefly to television, appearing on WKBW-TV, also in Buffalo, where he hosted an afternoon children's show in 1963.
On this show he appeared wearing a pith helmet and a faux leopard-skin costume, often working with a chimpanzee. It was at this time that he took the professional name Jungle Jay Nelson, a name that stuck for the rest of his career.
In the fall of 1963, CHUM radio was looking for a new morning host. It has been reported that Irene Ryan also auditioned for this position. However, CHUM selected Jay Nelson for the job.
From May 27, 1957 until June 6, 1986, CHUM printed a weekly list of top songs and distributed it through local record stores. Jay Nelson's picture first appeared on the cover of a CHUM Chart in issue Number 351 on Monday, December 2, 1963. By coincidence, the first Beatles song ever to appear on a CHUM Chart, She Loves You, was listed at position 42 in that very same issue. However, Jay Nelson did not actually start working at CHUM until the following Monday, December 9 and the Beatles did not appear on the Ed Sullivan Show that made them famous until February 9, 1964.
Jay Nelson remained at CHUM for the next 17 years, leaving in 1980.. http://www.spock.com/Jay-Nelson
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 BROADCAST DIALOGUE
SIGN-OFF: Allen Farrell, 70, in Toronto after a heart attack. Farrell was among the originals who had a huge hand in shaping the 1050 CHUM Toronto mythology from the early Top 50 days.
Farrell, who joined the station a year after its launch as its Creative Writer/Promotion Director, went on to become the third Al – after founder Allan Waters and PD Allan Slaight. More recently, Allen Farrell wrote The CHUM Story, a book about the broadcast icon’s early days.
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CHUM DJs of the 1960s
Al Boliska
Jay Nelson
John Spragge
Mike Darow
Pete Nordheimer
Bob McAdorey
Dave Johnson
Bob Laine.
Duff Roman
Brian Skinner
Late 1960s, early 1970s, CHUM DJ's included:
Duke Roberts (also known as Gary Duke for a time), Johnny Mitchell (better known today as Sonny Fox)
J. Michael Wilson
Tom Rivers
Scott Carpenter
Jim Van HorneJim Van Horne
Jim Van Horne
John Rode
Don Reagan
Terry Steele
Roger Ashby
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GORD JAMES
LINK: MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENT…
CELEBRATING BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
2007 Business Achievement Awards
CONGRATULATIONS
AWARD RECIPIENTS
...Special thanks…
to Gord James, Broadcaster for 1050 Chum, for being
the Master of Ceremonies, the Judges and the Business
Achievement Awards Committee for their time and
expertise. Your efforts are greatly appreciated..
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'Book Launch Media Event This Fall - You're Invited!!
Soul Drums Ltd. invites you to attend the press release media event and community drum circle launch of Doug Sole's highly anticipated new book "Human Rhythmic Energy -- Transformational Leadership for Classrooms, Communities and Corporations" Sept 18th at the Lula Lounge -- Hosted by Gord James from "Mornings 1050 AM CHUM Radio" with special guests Lance Secretan, The Soul Drummers, and you! RSVP by email to Soul Drums (sales@souldrums.com) to reserve your "No Charge" guest list ticket. Limited Space available. $20 general admission without reservation. ...'
EULOGY
Born: October 28, 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
After a few reincarnations 1050 CHUM quietly passed away on March 26, 2009
1050 CHUM was a legendary Top 40 powerhouse from the late 1950s through to the early 1980s.
The station had a formula no other station has been able to duplicate.
Through the formative ‘50s, the unforgettable ‘60s and the interesting ‘70s, 1050 CHUM played a major role in shaping the radio landscape in Toronto. Recording acts from Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Guess Who, Elton John, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers and Bob Seger not only graced the airwaves but walked the halls of 1050 CHUM.
The radio station was famous for the CHUM Chart. From 1957 to 1986, 1,512 consecutive weekly charts were published, making it the longest-running chart of its kind in the world.
Also, 1050 CHUM was noteworthy for hosting many famous rock concerts including, among others, visits to Maple Leaf Gardens by Elvis Presley (1957) and The Beatles (1964, '65, and '66).
Chart #1 - Monday, May 27, 1957 - TOP 50
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