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Rosalie Trombley (born circa 1939) is a Canadian former music director of AM Top 40 powerhouse CKLW - also known as "The Big 8". Her ability to select the songs that would become big hits contributed to the success of CKLW, and earned her much respect in the music industry. At the height of her fame, Kal Rudman, editor of the ''Friday Morning Quarterback'', a music trade publication, referred to her as "the number one music director in the United States." 〔Robert Martin. "Super-Monster Rosalie Trombley is Queen of the Top 40 Charts." ''Toronto Globe & Mail'', January 13, 1973, p. 25.〕 Her influence as a music director later led to an annual award being named after her. ==Career at CKLW== A native of Leamington, Ontario, Canada, Trombley had worked for Bell Canada while in high school, and after she and her then-husband Clayton moved to Windsor, she sought another switchboard job. She was hired on Labour Day weekend 1963 to work as a part-time switchboard operator and receptionist.〔Ted Shaw. "Big 8 Legend Rosalie Feted in Style." ''Windsor Star'', June 15, 2011, p. A3.〕 The more time she spent working at the station, the more familiar she became with how a top 40 station worked; she was given the chance to work in the music library, and in the fall of 1968, she was offered a full-time position as CKLW's music director.,〔Ron Base. "What Rosalie Likes, Almost Everybody Likes." ''Toronto Globe & Mail'', May 26, 1973, p. A7.〕 a job she later attributed to "being in the right place at the right time." 〔 Her ability to find the songs that listeners liked best helped CKLW's popularity to grow; that ability also made her very influential: her decision to add a song to CKLW's playlist could help it to become a huge success.〔 Known for her "good ears",〔"An Audio Odyssey: Coast to Coast and Back in Top-40 Radio." ''Broadcasting'', January 29, 1973, p. 52.〕 she was also frequently able to predict when an album track had the potential to become a hit single.〔"Diehl: Top 40 Success Keyed on Impending Music Polarity." ''Billboard'', May 12, 1973, p. 52.〕 CKLW was a Windsor, Ontario based station, but it programmed for the Detroit market in the USA. In fact, part of its programming strategy was to downplay the fact that its city of license was Windsor, Ontario, and to present itself as an American station.〔 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, CKLW was known as an AM Top 40 powerhouse. With its 50,000 watt signal at 800 kHz on the AM dial, CKLW covered the mid-west states including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, as well as southwestern Ontario. Its signal strength was such that it even showed up in the ratings for Cleveland and Toledo.〔 A ratings leader in the competitive Detroit market, CKLW was at one time a part of the RKO General chain of Top 40 radio stations that used the Bill Drake "Boss Radio" format. In its heyday in the early 1970s, the station was one of the most popular stations (based on cumulative audience) in North America, along with WABC, New York, KHJ, Los Angeles and WLS, Chicago. But when the CRTC mandated that CKLW follow Canadian Content rules and play a certain percentage of Canadian music, the station's American popularity gradually began to fade, although the station remained influential for a few more years.〔 Trombley herself acknowledged in a 1982 ''Billboard'' magazine article that her station no longer had the "clout" it once did; but despite that, CKLW continued to play a role in breaking hits.〔"Rosalie Trombley: Record Breaker, Hit Maker." ''Billboard'', August 7, 1982, p. CKLW-2.〕 Throughout the 1970s, Trombley dealt with the CRTC's Canadian content regulations as best she could, by picking the Canadian records she felt stood the best chance of becoming hits for airplay. In some cases, listener response to the Canadian records the station featured was great enough to force an American single release, with the song going on to become a national hit. For example, a 1973 ''Billboard'' article notes her role in promoting the Skylark song "Wildflower", playing it for over three months as an album cut before its release as a single. Another example is The Carpenters' 1977 cover of Canadian band Klaatu's "Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft". Trombley served as Music Director of CKLW from 1968–84, through the station's top 40 years and into the era when CKLW changed format to appeal to an older audience. After leaving the station, she worked at WLTI-FM in Detroit and then CKEY in Toronto.〔Harry Van Vugt. "CBE Radio's Les Mather Suspended." Windsor Star, December 16, 1988, p. C8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rosalie Trombley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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