Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
August 15, 2010
Weekly issue #593
Talent:
JIM BRADY
Station: CJCL Toronto
Date: August 21, 1981
Time: 20:05 (first show)
(Graphic and description courtesy Dale Johnson)
After eight years as morning DJ at rock station CJCL, Jim Brady left in 1981 to become morning DJ and program director at Metro 1430 CJCL.
The former CKFH has sunk low in the ratings, and the new owners, Telemedia, bought the station and rebranded it. The programming was a mix of information and music aimed at 25- to 49-year-olds - those too young for CFRB and CKEY, but too old for CHUM or CFTR. "We're 17th in a 16-station market," Brady said in the Toronto Star. Brady kept many of the popular features from his CFTR days, including the "who-haw it's Friday" jingles and the weather fairy.
Brady wasn't at CJCL very long, leaving in 1983. He moved to stations in Calgary and Winnipeg before returning to the Toronto market for a few months in 1990 with CFGM.
CJCL tried a variety of formats, including talk, oldies and sports. In 1995, CJCL swapped frequencies with the former CKEY, moving down to 590, and it's now all-sports, and known as The Fan 590. Meanwhile, 1430 began broadcasting multi-cultural programming under the new call letters CHKT.
This aircheck also features the voices of Mike Marshall, newscasters Glen Stone and J. Michael Philips, Pam Kioti on traffic and sportscaster Scott Ferguson.
Hear Brady during his first day on the air at Metro 1430 CJCL here.
(The Dale Johnson Collection)
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