RIP Rosalie Trombley

[Jake from State Farm]

In charge of the Big 8 CKLW back in the days they were heard across 27 states and four provinces she was the only program director to ever have a song written about her



https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.detroitnews.com/amp/8749753002

 

[maumann]

In charge of the Big 8 CKLW back in the days they were heard across 27 states and four provinces she was the only program director to ever have a song written about her



https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.detroitnews.com/amp/8749753002

RIP to the lady with the golden ear. (Although I must admit I HATED many of the songs she promoted, so I'd have made a lousy PD.)

I know Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland were huge markets for pop influencers, but CKLW was one of those stations that was right up there for me. I know they played a really unique playlist for its time -- songs I never heard in either Miami (on WQAM) or San Francisco (KFRC or KYA) -- and always wondered who was programming music for them. Amazing to think it was a woman in an era when MDs and PDs (music directors and programming directors) were almost exclusively men.

I always looked forward to visiting Detroit when I was really thinking about radio as a career, because there was so much great happening on the airwaves in the Motor City and across the river in the '70s.

 

[Tighthead]

I think CBC did a great doc type feature on her and CKLW years ago.

 

[Starman]

I think this is it.

Watch Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 Online | Vimeo On Demand

 

[Starman]

Type in the address for

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then fill in


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To watch it for free, until the end of the month.