CKLW NEWS 1967 MANUAL

— DICK SMYTH —

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EXCERPT FROM RKO POLICY ON NEWS PROGRAMS:

• The reporting of news must be accurate and fair.
• Sponsors may not select or edit  items in news programs.
• News concerning political campaigns should be handled with careful impartiality. Although Section 315 of the Federal Communications Act exempts certain appearances of legally qualified candidates on bona fide newscasts, bona fide news interviews, etc., from the equal opportunity requirements of that section, care shall be exercised whenever such exemption is relied upon by the station that the station affords a reasonable opportunity for a discussion of conflicting views on issues of public importance.
• News programs should not be deceptively used for the promotion of any business interests, securities and investments, comment on pending litigation, etc., in the guise of news.

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— A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —

A special THANK YOU to Big Jim Edwards (Jim Davis) for providing the above 1967 CKLW News Manual with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

Jim Davis inserted this thought as well:

“This is the news manual which Dick Smyth wrote just prior to CKLW becoming a Drake station in early 1967. Notice also that the Xerox logo was embedded in each page. This was the early days of photocopying, quite obviously. 🙂“

 

Dick Smyth passed away on March 6, 2021. He was 86.

 

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A FINAL NOTE: On the last page (5E) notice Smyth’s news directive numbered 64. As CKLW legend would have it, this one paragraph was pretty much tossed out the window by the CKLW news department in the early 1970s.