Ever wonder what goes into applying for a licence and getting a radio station approved in a place where there's already a ton of competition? It may not quite be like this one. 

As a new owner gets set to take over CKWW-AM in Windsor, the story of how the original founder managed to beat the competition to the last open frequency in the region is a cloak-and-dagger operation, involving a lot of stealth, secrets, risk taking and even one Toronto radio station, CKEY.

Here's how it was reported back in March 1964. Note the specifics of the format: "no-rock music. "A movement to return radio to the realm of the sane", the article said, written in the heart of the biggest, or one of the biggest, rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues markets in the U.S., home of the "Detroit sound."

Ironic because AM 580 is, at least for now, one of the few stations playing that old time rock and roll it claimed to despise at the beginning.