[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Jim Guthrie]

> 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


CKLW blanketed half of Canada at night (as well as much of the Eastern United 
States, though there was a religious station on the frequency in Netherlands 
Antilles that sometimes boomed in along the East Coast and throughout the South) 
with their 50kw signal, blasting out the American Top-40 songbook using what was 
known as the Drake format. In the U.S., stations had a news content requirement 
in those days, and putting the news at :40 minimized loss of the music-centric 
audience.

The Canadian Content Law came along in no small measure BECAUSE CKLW was such a 
powerhouse, and owned by the Canadian subsidiary of RKO-General, which on this 
side of the border, eventually lost their broadcast licenses because of a 
foreign bribery scandal involving their parent company, General Tire and Rubber 
Company.