Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of October 9, 2011
Weekly issue #650

Talent: JIM BAUER
Station: CHUM-FM Toronto
Date: Fall 1972
Time: 4:15

(Photo courtesy Jim Bauer)

A veteran of all three of Toronto's album rock stations, Jim Bauer has an impressive radio resume dating back to the year of the Summer of Love.

Bauer got his radio start at WKNX in his hometown of Saginaw, Mich., in 1967. He was there until 1970, when he moved to WHVY Springfield, Mass. From there it was on to Detroit progressive rocker WRIF in 1971, and then to CHUM-FM in 1972.

Bauer spent six years at CHUM-FM, much of it back-to-back schedule-wise with David Marsden. Bauer left CHUM-FM in 1978, landing the next year at its newly-launched Toronto album rock rival Q-107 (CILQ). In 1980, Bauer began a six-year stay in yet another Toronto album rock station, CFNY.

Bauer returned to Detroit radio in 1990 at WDET-FM, and spent nearly two decades at the Detroit public radio station before leaving in 2007.

Enjoy Jim Bauer on CHUM-FM here.

(The Rob Phillips Collection)

More 1972 airchecks here!

Talent: DAVID MARSDEN & JIM BAUER
Station: CHUM-FM Toronto
Date: February, 1975
Time: 3:37

A secret pleasure of many a radio junkie is hearing deejays sign off at the end of their shifts. Even better is when the deejay signing off banters with the one about to begin his or hers.

On this aircheck, Jim Bauer drops in early to say goodbye to David Marsden, who is finishing his final shift at CHUM-FM. It's one of those special moments that is so lacking in today's overly-formatted, personality-challenged radio.

Hear David Marsden and Jim Bauer here.

(The Rob Phillips Collection)

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