Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of June 5, 2016
Edition #888

Talent: DAVE MICKIE
Station: CHIQ Hamilton, Ont.
Date: July, 1964
Time: 25:23

(Logo courtesy Bill Dulmage)

He was called the Dick Biondi of Canadian radio, "The Fastest Tongue in the North." But above all, he was radio's greatest chameleon.

Dave Mickie earned a legion of fans from his days in the early '60s as an incredibly energetic night-time deejay at CKEY Toronto. By 1964, however, he had moved down the QEW to CHIQ (now CHAM) in Hamilton. He was still screaming and talking faster than most people - especially parents - could listen.

It was an entirely different Mickie that Toronto listeners would hear in the 1970s. First, he was now known as Dave Marsden. After a stop at Montreal's CHOM-FM in the late '60s, Marsden joined CHUM-FM in Toronto in the early '70s and if anything was the SLOWEST talker in the North.

In six years at CHUM-FM, Marsden established himself as one of the country's top FM rock announcers. In 1977, he brought his considerable talents to what was the new CFNY-FM in Brampton, Ont., which had just changed its call letters from CHIC-FM. With Marsden as PD and program host, CFNY became a force to be reckoned with in Toronto radio.

Marsden left the station in the late '80s for the Vancouver radio scene. After blazing a trail with the then-new medium of Internet radio in the '90s, Marsden returned to the terrestial airwaves at The Rock in Oshawa, Ont., in the 2000s. He left The Rock in 2014 to focus on his Internet venture NYTheSpirit.com.
 

Enjoy Dave Mickie on CHIQ here.

Enjoy Dave Mickie on CHIQ here.


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