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AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of June 6, 2010
Weekly issue #583

Talent: DICK HAYES
Station: CHUM Toronto
Date: June 7, 1967
Time: 7:38

He worked at several stations, under a number of different names. But southern Ontario radio fans will remember him as Dick Hayes, and the two years he spent at CHUM.

Hayes arrived at CHUM in the fall of 1965 - his first appearance on the CHUM Chart was on December 6 of that year (pictured above.) Prior to that, he had been Dick Haase (same pronunciation, different spelling) at WWTC Minneapolis-St. Paul. At CHUM, he took over the 1-4 shift from Mike Darow, who would go to host the ABC game show "Dream House." Hayes spent two years at CHUM - all of it in afternoons - before leaving for KOL Seattle in late 1967 where he was known as Jeff Boeing (the promo KOL used was "KOL has acquired Boeing!")

In 1968, he moved to WXYZ Detroit as Jack Hayes. By late '68 or early 1969, he was Jack Hayes on New York's WNBC but left in March, 1970. We don't know what happened to him right after that, but he shows up again in the '80s and '90s as Richard D. at WHND Monroe, Mich. He was PD/air personality there until 1994. The man born Richard Haase went on to Greater Media Detroit, where as of 2010 he was a senior information systems analyst.

Enjoy Dick Hayes - and Gene Scott with a news update - on CHUM here.

(The CHUM Archives/Bob Laine and Doug Thompson)

More from The CHUM Archives here!

 


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