[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well our main station was WJR, and I can hear the morning announcer's voice in my head now, but I can't remember his name. But we also listened to CKLW at times. I had no control over the radio in those days; my parents called the shots!

Yikes! Now I'm obsessing about that announcer's name. Might have started with a J...

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 8:19 PM,n those days Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Scott, wasn't the local Canadian station in Detroit CKLW?
> 
> There were a bunch, but CKLW was the Big 8, the powerhouse Top 40
> station, with CKLW 20/20 News and so on. Studios in Windsor but some
> talent from Detroit (to a point, as there were Canadian-content laws
> and labour laws in play). 20/20 News had newsmen with big voices over
> a teletype obligato breathlessly reporting on "rampaging rivers of
> rats" found in a burnt-out house or something. Lovely.
> 
> The CBC station was CBE 1550, which is now CBC Radio One. CBC Radio
> Two is 89.9. I also enjoyed "listening" (but not understanding much)
> to CBEF 540, the local French-language CBC affiliate.
> 
> There was also CKWW, with lighter Mom-and-Dad music and talk. At night
> I could tune in CFRB 1010 from Toronto.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA