Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
November 15, 2009
Weekly issue #555
Talent:
BEAU BODEAN
Station: CKGM Montreal
Date:
October 26, 1979
Time: 2:58
(Photo courtesy Beau BoDean)
Who better to tell the story of Beau BoDean than the man himself?
Born Wolfgang Fritzsche in Lingen, Germany, the radio personality we now know as Beau BoDean came to Canada at the age of three. He grew up in Winnipeg and also started in radio in Manitoba. Rock Radio Scrapbook asked BoDean about his career and he sent us this wrap:
"CHTM - Thompson, MB. - 1972 - 1973 my first radio job under the name “ Mel Corey “ (all shifts)
CJME - Regina, SASK. - 1973-1976 as Mel Corey (middays, afternoons, and “The Moneymobile Guy “ on the Hart Kirch morning show)
CKRC - Winnipeg, MB - 1976-1978…this is where Mel Corey became Buster BoDean … thanks to Reg Johns !….(afternoons)
CKGM - Montreal, PQ - 1978-1982…sometime during my stint here Buster BoDean evolved into just “ Beau” to capitalize on the French Connotation!! (afternoons…evenings…promotions…program director)
CJBK - London, ONT. - 1982-1989…John Mackey (our former CKGM PD) moved both Michael Dee & me down to London in May of 1982 (mornings, afternoons, music director, program director )
Q94 FM – Winnipeg, MB - 1989-2006...Hooked up with Tom Milroy for the Beau & Tom Morning Show with various female co-hosts including Caroline Hunter….Frazier….Dez Daniels ( PDs were Mark Maheu & Howard Kreuger)
99.9 BOB FM – Winnipeg, 2006-present...Tom & I moved down the hall to our sister station in August of 06…just this past March (2009) we celebrated 20 years on the air together here in The Peg!! In September Frazier rejoined us on the morning show after leaving 10 years ago for Calgary! We’re still having lots of laughs & fun…can’t imagine doing anything else!!! Kudos to our great PD Chris Brooke for letting us live the radio dream….."
Thanks, Beau!
Enjoy Beau BoDean on CKGM here.
(The Marc Denis Collection)
More 1979 airchecks here!
Talent:
STEVE ANTHONY
Station: CKGM Montreal
Date:
September 30, 1985
Time: 1:36
(Photo courtesy Marc Denis)
As the original CKGM was ending, Steve Anthony was just getting started.
Anthony broke into big-market radio in the 1980s at CKGM, in the dying days of the Top 40 format at the Montreal station. The Montreal-born radio and TV personality left CKGM in 1987 for the morning show at Toronto's CFNY. Shortly after his departure - in 1989 - CKGM dropped its call-letters to become CHTX (it would change again to CKIS in 1991). And while the CKGM calls would return in 1996 under an oldies format, the original Top 40 CKGM was long gone.
Anthony, meanwhile, went on to an incredible career in Canadian radio and television. From 1987 to 1995, he was a VJ at MuchMusic, while doubling as a co-host on CITY-TV Toronto's Breakfast Television from 1989 to the mid-'90s. Anthony returned to Montreal to host the morning show on CHOM-FM from 1998 to 2001. Then he came back to Toronto in 2001 for a seven-year stint at Mix 99.9, first as co-host (with Carla Collins) on the morning show, then solo in afternoons.
By 2009, Anthony was back in morning television. He was the Chopper 24 news reporter at Toronto's CP24, and later co-host of CP24 Breakfast with Melissa Grelo.
Hear Steve Anthony on CKGM here.
(The Marc Denis Collection)
More 1985 airchecks here!
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