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AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of October 17, 2010
Weekly issue #601

Talent: DON PERCY
Station: CKY Winnipeg
Date: July 14, 1977  (Upgraded 10-17-10)
Time: 22:15

Jay Nelson may be CHUM's longest-lasting morning personality, but a lot of other well-known radio people have also held the post.

Pete Ladd did the morning show first in CHUM's rock era, holding down the shift from May to fall 1957 when Al Boliska took over. Boliska ruled as CHUM's morning mayor from 1957 to 1963 when he left for CKEY and Nelson came up from WKBW Buffalo to replace him. Jungle Jay spent an amazing 17 years on CHUM's morning show, leaving in 1980.

Tom Rivers, Roger Ashby, Mike Holland (co-host with Ashby) and John Majhor did the CHUM morning show in the '80s up until the end of that station's life as a Top 40 station in 1986. In June of that year, CHUM went to a "Favourites of Yesterday and Today" format and the morning show went to a deejay popular in western Canada, Don Percy.

In July, 1977, Percy was at CKY Winnipeg.

Hear him here.

NOTE: Hosting CHUM's morning show after Percy were Gerry Forbes, Bob Magee (with Samantha Houston and Robbie Evans as Bob, Sam and Robbie), Russ McCloud, Brian Henderson (with Nancy Krant) and Gord James. It should be noted that John Rode has been a frequent fill-in and Bob McAdorey did mornings for a brief time in 1963 after Boliska left and Nelson started.

(The Bill Dulmage Collection)

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