CKLW
CKLW was a Windsor, Ontario based Detroit market AM Top 40 radio station powerhouse. With its 50,000 watt signal at 800 kHz on the AM dial, CKLW covered the midwest states including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, as well as southwestern Ontario. It has been stated that on night pattern the station could be heard in at least 23 US states and four Canadian provinces. A ratings leader in the competitive Detroit market, CKLW was at one time a part of the RKO General chain of Top 40 radio stations that used the Bill Drake "Boss Radio" format. In its heyday in the early to late 1970s the station was the third or fourth most listened to station, cumulative audience, in North America, outranked only by WABC, New York; KHJ, Los Angeles; WLS, Chicago.
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