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Talent: CLINT TRUEMAN
Station: CING-FM (FM 108) Burlington, Ont.
Date: March 27, 1982
Time: 21:54

Back row (left to right): Clint Trueman, Rockin' Robin, Junior Chung, Burt Thombs, Wes Atkinson
Front row (left to right): Steve Richards, Norman B.

(Graphic courtesy Rob Muir)

Anyone who worked at FM 108 in the 1980s would be familiar with the above cartoon. It was a caricature of the oldies jocks at the station and it was posted for years in the music library. The cartoon - by Ben Hicks - originally appeared on the FM 108 History of Rock and Roll Album and is dated April, 1981.

So what happened to the jocks portrayed above?

Clint Trueman: This long-time weekender stayed at FM 108 until the late '80s. In his day job, he has been a vice-president at Fujifilm.

Rockin' Robin: He was FM 108's evening jock for a decade before leaving in February, 1989 to go to the short-lived Canadian Radio Network. Since then, he has had stops at several southern Ontario stations, including CJRN Niagara Falls, CHML Hamilton, CHSC St. Catharines and AM 740 Toronto while continuing to operate his successful DJ service.

Junior Chung: Hosted not one but two reggae shows at FM 108 at one time and was also the station's operations manager. He left the station in 1994 to set up his own station in his native Jamaica. He died of cancer in July, 2005.

Burt Thombs: Did the Saturday afternoon slot at FM 108 throughout most of the '80s, even adding Saturday nights to his schedule for a time late in the decade. Burt helped reprise the FM 108 years by co-hosting the Gold and Great Revival Show on the Internet with Rockin' Robin in 2003-04. He was also at WJJL Niagara Falls, N.Y., for a time in the late '90s. In 2004, Burt retired from Dofasco after more than 30 years and returned to radio as a program host for a time at CKNS-FM in Caledonia, Ont.

Wes Atkinson: The long-time FM 108 morning man left the station in the early '90s. After that, he jocked at CKYC (Country 59) Toronto and CIDC Orangeville, Ont. He died March 2, 2008.

Steve Richards: Also known on-air as Steve Mortensen, he did the all-night show at FM 108 in the early '80s before moving to the Buffalo market at WJYE. He's now in England.

Norman B.: Continued as FM 108's program director into the '90s and remained in management when the station became Energy 108. Norman died January 19, 1997 of heart attack at the age of 53.

Hear Clint Trueman on FM 108 here.

(The Clint Trueman Collection)

More FM 108 airchecks here!

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