RadioActive: From 1958 to 1967, that would have been Promotion Director Allen Farrell, often in conjunction with Program Director Allan Slaight or Marketing Director Lyn Salloum (later known as Lyn Rice) if there was a sponsored promotion. From the beginning until 1967, the CHUM chart was designed and created weekly by the amazingly talented artist Ben Wilson, who also created the many brochures and pamphlets that CHUM sales used and the ones that were handed out to the public at the CNE or Sportsmen Shows. Slaight left CHUM in 1966. Farrell and Wilson left in 1967 to start their own company called Creative Sight & Sound. When J. Robert Wood came in as Program Director, he, in conjunction with the Promotion person at the time would have decided who to put on the cover, unless it was a sales promotion.  

The Radio Kandy Shows were sent to U.S. stations on vinyl. I do have almost all of those shows. We did two hours a week, 52 weeks for 2 years, so just over 200 hours. John wanted to do almost an SCTV on radio with parody commercials, which we did and of course, we played music. We even had Jimmy Doohan as Scotty, Radio Kandy's engineer. I wrote all of those opens & closes and John and Jimmy were magic together.  I'll send some segments to you RA and you can put them on SOWNY if that's works for you. 

Another Radio Caroline alum was Errol Bruce Knapp who came to Canada and was the voice of Ryerson with Chuck The Security Guard on "The All Night Show" on CFMT in 1980-'81. Errol was one of the creators of that program. He later hosted "Strange Days" on CFRB about the paranormal using the line "Strange Days Indeed" from John Lennon's song "Nobody Told Me"  

Love Eddie Lawrence. "Hey there bunkie.." I have 3 of his albums and a bunch of his 45's on Coral. 

Jack Kent Cooke did a lot of shady things in his broadcasting history. When he didn't get the Toronto TV license that went to Baton (Basset/Eaton) that became CFTO, he sold CKEY and moved to the U.S. where he was granted instant citizenship.  

At one point he bought Top 40 KRLA in Los Angeles and held a contest that had the FCC take away his license.

He's also the guy that changed the name of CKEY's DJ Digger Dave Mostoway to Duff Roman.

I'm very happy for Eugene, but miffled that John Candy does NOT have a star in Hollywood. Yes, he has one in Toronto and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star cost mucho dinero, but John should have his star there as well.

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was waaaay ahead of its time in term of its writers, which included Mason Williams ("Classical Gas"), Bob Einstein (pre Super Dave Osborne and Curb Your Enthusiasm), a young Steve Martin, Winnipeg born Allan Blye (The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour as well as The Elvis '68 Special), Carl Gotlieb (Co-writer of the "Jaws"  screenplay, comedian Murray Roman and quite a few others.  Tommy Smothers played guitar and sang on John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band's "Give Peace A Chance" recorded at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel. in June 1969.

I interviewed Tommy and Dick Smothers sometime in the early '90s (I'd have to check the DAT for the exact year).
It was a fun interview.

Another sad sign of the times.  

Denny was one of the good guys. I hung out with him for a couple of days in New York in the '90s, when he was playing with my friend Spencer Davis.

Very sad day.

Cool article. When I started at CHUM in February 1965, I worked with Larry Solway on his nightly talk show, Speak Your Mind, for two years.

Then when I was promoted into the production department, I worked with Larry & Garry producing their commercials. My favourite feature was recording Garry and Jay Nelson doing the "Mysterious Minerva" comedy bits. Garry always cracked Jay up and we always left it in.

Boliska would have been making no more than $14,000. at CHUM. CKEY took him up to around $25,000. CKEY seriously wanted to hurt CHUM, but Boliska's audience stayed with CHUM and Jungle Jay. Dave Mickie at CKEY worried CHUM management much more than Boliska's leaving ever did.  Had Dave stayed, he really would have hurt CHUM's ratings, certainly at night.

By the way, we have Boliska's World Worst Jokes files and archives at the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation. They had been with Don Cullen and when he died, our mutual friend Bud O'Reilly suggested the Museum would be the best place for them.  

Harvey was a CHUM newsman prior to the launch of Top 40 in May 1957.  He was Harve Kirk then (no 'c' in Kirk).  He left CHUM for a TV anchor job at CHCH in 1960.

Listening to Sirius/XM channels that DO have commercials, the ads that mention phone numbers or websites repeat them three times.

Always.

Quite annoying and something I would never do in any radio ad I wrote and/or produced unless I made the entire commercial about it.

In the early 1970s, there was a Canadian film, directed by David Acomba, titled "Slipstream" about a reclusive DJ in Alberta that a couple of listeners tried to find.  It starred Luke Askew. 

Pretty sure this movie was made on a showstring budget because my business/creative partner at the time, Bill McDonald and I wrote and produced a radio commercial for this movie in 1973 and we were offered a tiny percentage of the film as payment for the commercial...so in other words, we did it for free.  

This "Slipstream" is not to be confused with the 1989 sci-fi film,  also called "Slipstream", starring Bill Paxton and Mark Hamill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(1973_film

His afternoon gig on CFRB was very good for his brand and his public profile, pre-mayoralty run.

Now, not so much.  He is, as I understand, still very much a part of the Rogers board of directors.