| February 1,
2001 At 12 midnight, the music
died. One of the last Top 40 Greats expired. LG73, officially known as CKLG AM
730 Vancouver was no more. Over the last few years LG73 slowly ran into the
ground.
CKLG originally signed on February 2, 1955 at 1070
khz with a 1,000 watt transmitter at Blair Range in North Vancouver. The
"LG" in the call letters stood for Lions Gate, with the owner Lions Gate
Broadcasters. The night time interference from 50 kilowatt KNX Los Angeles on the
same frequency necessitated a frequency change to 730 on August 18, 1958. The Top
40 era began at CKLG on August 22, 1964, when the station took on the other Vancouver Top
40 station, CFUN AM 1410. The two ran head to head (except for a brief time
when CFUN was All News CKVN) until the mid eighties when CFUN turned to soft rock and then
to talk.
LG73 was home to some of the greats:
Bob Allen
69-70, Paul Arthur 65, Bud Bolton news 60s; Bob Boving 1970, John Buchanan 86-88, Timothy
M. Burge 70s, Daryl B Burlingham 67-69, Donny Burns 76-77, Frank Callaghan 60-75,
Pat Cardinal 88-92, Raccoon Carney 78-83, Howie The Hitman Cogan eve/PMD 88-93,
Cal Coleman news 60s, Merv Connelly news 80s-90s, Kate Corman 90s, Erin Davis 90s, Wayne
Deschover, Debra Donohue news 96-98, Jesse Dylan 90s, Stirling Faux 74-75, Humble Howard
Glassman 80, Dave Gordon 74, Steve Little Stevie Wonder Grossman 60s, Kirk Hansen
70, Doc Harris AMD 75-83, Graham Hatch 80s-90s, Jim Hault 68, Roy Hennessy eve/AMD 64-74,
Dean Hill AMD 88-95, Sam Holman 64-65, Rick Honey 70-73, Samantha Howe 88-98, Russell
James 92-93, Stu Jeffries AMD 96-2000, Gordon Johnson 80s; David Kaye 90-94, Des Kearney
60s, Freeway Frank Kelly 93, Roger Kelly 81-82, Trevor Kidd, Darren The Skywalker
Lamb 89-90; Glen Uncle Angus Lamont 88, Jerry Landa 65-66, Fred Latremouille
65-67, Mick Luvzit 80s, Nails Mahoney 90-93, Frank Emperor Malone 64, Jack Marion
news 78-85, Kerry Marshall news 80s-90s; Stu McAllister news 74-00, Mike McCoy 79-83, Jay
McPhail 78-79, Ched Miller 80s, Dave Mitchell, Tank Montana 90-93, Ronald J. Morey 70,
Charlee Morgan 86-90, Michael Morgan 74-78, Bob Morris 69-74, John Moxin, Terry David
Mulligan early 70s & AMD 83-84, Al Murdoch 91-97, Ellie O'Day 78, Gerry O’Day
82-87, Dennis O’Neill 89-90, David Palmer 65-71 news 71-72, Brad Phillips 87-90,
Stone Phillips news 88-90, Jeff Rechner eve/PMD 85-89, Terry Reid 76-85, Bill Reiter late
60s, Kevin Ribble 86-90, Don Richards 67-68, Gord Robson 74-84, Gary Russell 72, Cam Scott
news late 60s, J.B. Shayne 67-68, Russ Simpson PMD 63-66 & mid mornings 71-72, Tamara
Stanners early 90s, Peter Starr mid 60s, Don Stevens 70-82, Kat Stewart late 80s, Ingrid
Tammen 91-94, John Tanner 67-70, Bob Taylor mid 60s, Randy Taylor news 78, Phil Toombs
69-72, Jim Van Horn, Calvin Jay Walker 80-83, Casey White 78-81, Bruce Williams, Dan
Williamson 74-77, Mike Woodman, Rita Woodman 84, and others still to be uncovered. This list is in
alphabetical order and will be continuously updated.
When LG73 died, there was no fanfare, just an
appropriate final song, "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachan. (CHUM AM
1050 Toronto, which had a similar lengthy run, evolving into an oldies station, went out
later in 2001 in a blaze of glory and nostalia, with a tribute befitting of the
station.)
LG73, many years down the road, I will remember
you.
On February 1, 2001 LG73's owner, Corus
Communications changed it to All News CJNW or NW2 in an attempt to capture
listeners from existing News 1130 CKWX.
About 15 months later, at 5 a.m. on May 28, 2002
All News programming ended and the station switched to automated rock, but continued
carrying Stanley Cup Playoff games. On June 14, NW2 went off the air for
transmitter and tower upgrades. It returned July 19th with a continuation of its
rock stunting. At 6 a.m. on August 6th CJNW AM 730 Vancouver officially launched as MOJO
Radio, an offshoot of its Toronto all-guy format, followed by a call letter change to
CHMJ.
In early February 2004, MOJO moved to an
All Sports format. |
