Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of April 13, 2014
Edition #779

Talent: BILL GABLE
Station: CKLW Windsor, Ont.
Date: August, 1974
Time: 30:51 (unscoped)

Bill Gable had a great radio career on both sides of the border.

The native of Phoenixville, Pa., got his start at WAEB Allentown, Pa., as a teenager in 1968, followed by a stint at WRAW Reading, Pa. His first big market gig was at WEAM Washington in 1970. Many other U.S. stops followed: KHJ Los Angeles, WHBQ Memphis, WLW Cincinnati, WMAG Greensboro, N.C., WGRV (The Groove) Detroit and WOCL and WMMO Orlando.

North of the border, Gable did two tours of duty at CKLW during its Big Eight glory in the '70s ("one of the five best radio jobs in the world that you could get" says Gable) and also appeared on Toronto stations CFTR and CHFI-FM. He retired from radio March 31, 2014, having spent the last six years of his career co-hosting the morning show at AM 740 Toronto.

A three-time nominee for Billboard's Air Personality of the Year Award, Gable also won the CLIO award for Best Conceived Radio, one of radio's top advertising awards, for his work in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis.

Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (unscoped) here.

Hear Bill Gable on CKLW (scoped) here.

(The Tom Howard Collection)

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