Kilgore wrote:

Fitz wrote:

some tape of The  Sunday Morning Oldies show. Date unknown and taped off CHUM FM

what year did sunday morning oldies move from FM to 1050 CHUM please
 

I don't know or remember the exact details but I think the show started on the am side around 1980 and may have bounced back and forth a couple of times. Just a guess but maybe moved back from FM to AM around the time when Roger, Rick and Marilyn's signature contest The Morning Mystery Oldie became The Moning Mystery Hit. Perhaps the concept of "oldies" was no longer welcome on a AC/Hot AC format. Not sure what happened during the 1050 Team era - maybe the show the went off and then came back on AM with the return of oldies. I belive the show was running on AM when 1050 CHUM dropped oldies in 2009.

Last edited by Fitz (August 18, 2015 10:02 pm)

Fitz wrote:

Kilgore wrote:

Fitz wrote:

some tape of The  Sunday Morning Oldies show. Date unknown and taped off CHUM FM

what year did sunday morning oldies move from FM to 1050 CHUM please
 

I don't know or remember the exact details but I think the show started on the am side around 1980 and may have bounced back and forth a couple of times. Just a guess but maybe moved back from FM to AM around the time when Roger, Rick and Marilyn's signature contest The Morning Mystery Oldie became The Moning Mystery Hit. Perhaps the concept of "oldies" was no longer welcome on a AC/Hot AC format. Not sure what happened during the 1050 Team era - maybe the show the went off and then came back on AM with the return of oldies. I belive the show was running on AM when 1050 CHUM dropped oldies in 2009.

The Sunday Morning Oldies show started on CHUM-AM on November 20, 1980. I don't know when it moved to FM, but my best guess would be in 1986 when CHUM-AM switched to "Favourites of Yesterday and Today." The show went through several changes on CHUM-FM - at one point they shortened it to two hours and called it "Sunday Seventies" and later "Sunday Soul" (I think it was also called "Sunday Oldies" for a time).

Sometime after CHUM-AM's switch to oldies in 1989 the show went back to AM where it returned to a three-hour format beginning at 9 a.m., repeated at 9 p.m. (it was back no later than 1997 as I have an aircheck of the show from that year). The show disappeared sometime before CHUM-AM switched to The Team in 2001 but returned after it went back to oldies in 2002. The Sunday Morning Oldies show ended in March 2009 when CHUM-AM began simulcasting CP 24, thus ending its oldies/classic hits format.

Notes: Somewhere deep in my memory banks I recall Daryl B hosting the show for a very brief time on the AM side. I also remember Ashby used to host The Sunday Morning Oldies Show from September to June then take the summer off while continuing his weekday duties. He did that for years but later started doing the show year-round.
 

Lorne wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

The show disappeared sometime before CHUM-AM switched to The Team in 2001 but returned after it went back to oldies in 2002. 
 

I recall that the rationale given by CHUM-AM for cancelling it was that they weren't getting full credit for it in the ratings ... they said that some people were crediting CHUM-FM instead, because of it being hosted by Roger Ashby. Tried to find an online source for this, but it was probably contained in an email from the station to one or more of us here on SOWNY. It was definitely discussed here.

I remember that too.