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CHUM's Music Magazine??
Does anyone remember this? CHUM apparently put out a music magazine at one point. This from the CHUM Chart this day in 1967. Looks like it was called CHUM'S GO! Image from RadioWest.ca
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I not only remember them, I have some of them. At first, they charged 10 cents for them, but then changed them all to freebies. Each edition consisted of syndicated music news, leaving two pages for local content.
A few samples are pictured below.
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What you may not know is that this wasn't exclusively a CHUM promotion. GO was actually published by a company that distributed editions to rock radio stations across North America. Nearly every market had one. Again, the same first few pages, followed by room for local radio inserts.
WKBW was the "Go" to place for the newspaper in Buffalo. They not only promoted their DJs, but also featured a weekly chart. 
In New York, WMCA was the station that was on the Go. The publication only lasted a year or two. But in that time, the cover art and logo changed a bit. Here are two examples.
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One more sample.
Here's the edition from March 8, 1968, when they changed from fee to free.
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When was it discontinued? Why?
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RadioWiz & THE Wiz are NOT the same person.
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According to this webpage and an interview with the publisher, they decided to try and break free of their radio station ties, opting in the 70s to try and make a "Go" out of it as a real for-profit magazine dealing with contemporary issues.
That obviously did not last.
Publisher and editor Phil Flamm: "When GO Magazine started ... we were an 8 page, tabloid ... a teeny-bopper magazine ... rock music has become more socially oriented and we found it impossible to write about the music without getting into the social implications. However, the fact that we were distributed through radio stations precluded our getting into anything BUT the music ... so we changed GO from a weekly distributed through radio stations to a monthly on sale at newsstands ... "
Here are a few more details about GO, including the surprising name of the guy who edited the national copy.
GO Magazine
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Thanks for all of the information RA. I had never been aware of GO magazine or the connection to radio stations. Not a bad idea for the time, but like many other good things, it wasn't around too long. And of course Robin Leach eventually moved on to more extravagant projects.
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And CHUM's Go magazine had a regular column from a Doug Thompson....
It wasn't me!
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I checked (but not from the Ex!) but I don't seem to have any of those "Doug Thompson" articles in the editions I have. I did, however, find one of the weirdest CHUM-related promotions I can remember. You wouldn't think a teenybopper station playing Top 40 for kids would have any interest at all in ballet.
Yet, here's the ad for CHUM's "Toe A Go Go" with one of the most unlikely cast of characters ever assembled. (And you might think someone in the copy department would know how to spell "McAdorey.")
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I have a very large collection of Rock mags and I know I had an issue or two of GO. I just had a cursory look and no luck in finding today and even the cursory look took way too long.
One of these days when I have the time I'm going to fully organize the collection as at present it is semi-organized. The magazine collection is somewhat overwhelming much more so than my records or even the reel to reel tapes which get the number 2 spot in hard to locate items.
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Sounds like we're kindred spirits of a sort. I only digitized all my radio reel-to-reels and cassette materials when I was recovering from an operation and couldn't leave the house for three weeks. It gave me something to do when I didn't really feel like doing anything.
I hope the reason you find the time is a lot better than mine was! Still, I'm grateful to have it all done.
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This morning I resorted to an easy way out. Looked at my computer for pics I have taken of mags over the years and thought I would share a few random but interesting ones:
1. I found this GO but it may not be the same
2. Beetle - Canada's answer to Rolling Stone
3. Grapevine another Canadian mag
4. Hullabaloo which later morphed into Circus I think
5. Zoo World - which always featured an album cover on the cover
6. An early edition of Hit Parader
7. Creem - my very favorite rock mag
8. A Brit mag called Strange Things Are Happening
9. RPM but not the Canadian RPM
10. A local Toronto mag from 1968 which cost 15 cents
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