{"id":119,"date":"2019-01-03T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottowensshow.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2019-01-03T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:00:50","slug":"remembering-byron-macgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Byron MacGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in the shadow of the Motor City, everyone eventually listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CKLW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CKLW<\/a>. Its 50,000 signal blanketed 28 states and 5 Canadian provinces with the famous Top 40 format promoted by Bill Drake and guided locally by Paul Drew.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Byron-MacGregor-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"139\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Byron MacGregor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One dimension of the CK sound was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BDCdbmwy9l8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20\/20 News<\/a><\/strong> (Video), a high energy newscast at 20 and 40 past the hour that presented the stories of the day in a breathless, tabloid manner that shocked and delighted Detroit audiences. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Byron_MacGregor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Byron MacGregor<\/a><\/strong>, born Gary L. Mack on March 13, 1948 was a central figure at 20\/20 news. At the height of CKLW&#8217;s popularity, he recorded a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Sinclair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon Sinclair<\/a><\/strong> editorial, entitled &#8220;The Americans&#8221;. It resonated with our psyche and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard pop charts in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Byron went on to anchor television news at Detroit&#8217;s WKBD-TV and became an afternoon news fixture on WWJ Radio before succumbing to complications related to pneumonia on this date in 1995. He was just 46.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Byron MacGregor - Americans\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lw2ysu1RWLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in the shadow of the Motor City, everyone eventually listened to CKLW. Its 50,000 signal blanketed 28 states and 5 Canadian provinces with the famous Top 40 format promoted by Bill Drake and guided locally by Paul Drew. One dimension of the CK sound was 20\/20 News (Video), a high energy newscast at 20 and 40 past the hour that presented the stories of the day in a breathless, tabloid manner that shocked and delighted Detroit audiences. Byron MacGregor, born Gary L. Mack on March 13, 1948 was a central figure at 20\/20 news. At the height of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}