AN EXCELLENT 1050 CHUM ARCHIVES SITE:
LINK: RT40RR - The Dan Haber CHUM Collection
1050 CHUM HISTORY:
The CHUM Chart: A History
LINK: http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/chum1050.html
DALE R. PATTERSON
(Note: Much of the information below is gleaned from Ron Hall's book, "The CHUM Chart Book." I've added and expanded on that information and put it into my own words.
On May 27, 1957, CHUM radio in Toronto made two changes that would prove very historic. They became the first station in Canada to program Top 40 hit music, 24 hours a day. Also, they began a tradition that would last 29 years with the weekly issuing of the CHUM Chart.
It was not unusual for Top 40 stations to issue their own weekly music charts in 1957. Several North American stations were issuing charts by that time; even more common were informal charts like Hound Dog Lorenz's weekly list for WKBW.
What made the CHUM Chart unusual was its longevity. From May 27, 1957 to June 14, 1986, 1,513 charts were issued without interruption (the last chart was prepared but never issued; there was one week in 1971 when two charts were issued.) This extended run made it the second-longest continually issued music chart by a private North American radio station in history (the record of 32 years - from 1960 to 1992 - is held by Hamilton's CKOC).
Few of the first CHUM charts survive. One reason for this is that on the early charts listeners were asked to fill out a form on the chart, tear it off and mail it in. So, many of the early charts were destroyed. Also many people simply never thought to save these early charts - who knew at the time it would last 29 years? ....
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LINK: Pictures - GORD JAMES MORNING SHOW
105 CHUM HISTORICAL ARCHIVES SITES - ROCK RADIO SCRAPBOOK
LINKS
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Doug Thompson's Production Corner
Rock Radio Scrapbook: The CHUM Archives, Part 1, the '50s and '60s
Rock Radio Scrapbook: The CHUM Archives (Part 2)
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Rock Radio Heaven (U-V-W)
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Jingles
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1961 airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks 1963
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks 1965
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1969 airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks 1971
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1972 airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1973 airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1974 airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1979 airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks 1981
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Airchecks 1990
Rock Radio Scrapbook: 1996-present airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: CHUM lineups
Rock Radio Scrapbook: The CHUM Charts
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Goodbye airchecks
Rock Radio Scrapbook: Canada's Aircheck Archive
On May 27, 1957, CHUM radio in Toronto made two changes that would prove very historic. They became the first station in Canada to program Top 40 hit music, 24 hours a day. Also, they began a tradition that would last 29 years with the weekly issuing of the CHUM Chart.
It was not unusual for Top 40 stations to issue their own weekly music charts in 1957. Several North American stations were issuing charts by that time; even more common were informal charts like Hound Dog Lorenz's weekly list for WKBW........READ MORE @ Rock Radio Scrapbook: The CHUM Charts
LINK: 1050 Chum at Canadaspace.com
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1050 CHUM LINK SITE
LINK: http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/ck-apr19.html
CHUM Twin Spin (Part 1)CHUM 20th Anniversary Remembrance1977 (never aired)
(The CHUM Archives)
Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of April 19, 2009
Weekly issue #526
Subject: CHUM's 20th ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE
Station: CHUM Toronto (never aired)
Date: 1977
Time: 16:34
In 1977, on the 20th anniversary of CHUM adopting a Top 40 format, CHUM founder Allan Waters was presented with this audio recording as a gift from his staff. And what a gift! It contains greetings from many of CHUM's early voices, in the following order and times:
(00:17) - Harvey Dobbs (mid-morning host 1957-58)
(2:36) - Phil Stone (afternoon host 1957-59)
(3:52) - Pete Nordheimer (afternoon host 1957-61)
(5:52) - Bob Laine (all-night host 1958-68; midmornings 1968-69)
(7:01) - Dave Johnson (evening host 1957-65)
