Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of June 26, 2005
Weekly issue #331

Talent: MARC DENIS
Station: CKGM Montreal
Date: June 23, 1980
Time: 23:23

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Remember when Top 40 stations had million-dollar weekends, those oldies extravaganzas that started every Friday afternoon? Well in 1980, CKGM improved on that, running a "World's Longest Weekend"!

What CKGM did was to feature a different major artist within the daily music mix while including the Quebec holidays of ''St-Jean Baptiste Day (a.k.a. La Fête Nationale)'' on June 24 and ''Canada Day'' on July 1. The fun began June 23, lasted nine days and was appropriately called ''The World's Longest Weekend''.



This aircheck showcases some of the elements that made classic Top 40 radio so special. The programming was fresh and creative ... it blended personality and music ... and it was both live and local. The result: magic!

Along with the delightful Omega Medina "Sister O" reporting on Montreal traffic, enjoy Marc Denis, doing his usual signature bilingual thing (with Spanish in there too), on "The World's Longest Weekend" here.

(The Marc Denis Collection)


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