"PAMS Radio Jingles" "PAMS Series 29 "Go-Go" "CKCK 620 AM Regina, Saskatchewan"

"Regina (ruh-JEYE-nuh) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, after Saskatoon, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. CKCK was an AM radio station that had its beginnings in 1922, July 19 to be exact. The first broadcast was during a thunderstorm and the station kept rolling along. There isn't much about the station that is easily accessible, except this information on Wikipedia; Bert Hooper was the station's only employee for a spell, until the hiring of Pete Parker, which gave the station two announcers. Historically for CKCK, in 1923, Mr. Parker "...called a Regina Capitals hockey game on the station - the world's first complete broadcast of a professional hockey game. Around the same time, the station conducted the British Empire's first live remote broadcast of a church service." Also, according to Wikipedia, CKCK dominated the broadcast market in Regina in the 60s, and southeast Saskatchewan, broadcasting at 5000 watts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKCK-FM The following information I was able to cobble together and paraphrase from an excellent web site, "It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine" that details the history of a band that got its start in the 60s, The Andantes. In the telling of the band's story, there is also the only extensive information about what kind of a station CKCK was in the 60s: "There were two radio stations playing popular music: CKCK and CJME. CKCK in particular was a radio station willing to take chances on new music formats and voices. Their original rock disk jockeys were Ron Andrews, Russ Campbell, “Big Daddy” Doug Alexander, John Wessel, and Dave Jacobsen. An indication that the youth market was considered of growing importance was their recruitment of disc jockey J. Robert Wood. Not only was he on top of the latest rock and pop releases, but he started a weekly teen column in the local newspaper the Leader-Post in April 1965. He would shortly be joined in his endeavours by Johnny Onn of CJME, Howard Green (known as the Jolly Green Giant) who left CKX Brandon and joined CKCK in June 1965, and by the end of the year they added to their ranks a young dynamic DJ – Terry David Mulligan" , who reported on which new records were most popular in the province’s capital. The new music of the 60s spurred many kids to form bands in Regina. Some of the young bands were: the Dynamic, The Canadian Downbeats, The Shandermen, Boleros, Rhodesmen, The Tracers and Regina favorites, The Andantes.  These bands played original material as well as the music of the Beatles, Hollies, Beach Boys, Yardbirds and Rolling Stones. CKCK was very involved in promoting these local bands with the “CKCK Spring Big Band Battle Blast” In 1965. The winner would score sponsorship by the station which meant free on-air promotion, regular bookings, the occasional use of a studio for practicing, access to the record library and, depending on the gig, use of the CKCK P.A. system. A second CKCK Battle of the Bands in October 1966. Bands included The Anadantes, The Hard Varks, Rhodesmen, Bod Squad, Shandermen and, from Moose Jaw, the winners Mozart & the Wolfgang. https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/20... Beyond this one article, the only thing I could find out was that in 2001, CKCK was replaced on 620 KHz by CKRM, using CKCK's transmitter and the CKCK call letters were retired."