65 years old.
We regret to note the passing of former "Big 8" Chief Engineer, Ed Buterbaugh on September 1, 2008. As Art Vuolo, Jr. wrote on Michiguide.com:
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Ed Buterbaugh, one of the greatest and most respected chief engineers in the radio industry. Ed, who we reported in this column several weeks ago, was suffering from bladder cancer and died over the holiday weekend. The cancer was diagnosed right around the time that he retired from a twenty year stint as the chief of engineering at WJR. While at CKLW, Ed was the mastermind behind the big booming sound of the station in its hey-day as "The Big 8." The signal that he fine-tuned from a cluster of five towers in rural Harrow, Ontario, was legendary. He lived only a few miles from that transmitter site. In 1984 he remodeled all of the studios at CKLW at a time when AM 800 had a morning show hosted by Erin Davis and Paul W. Smith, prior to his joining WJR on a fulltime basis, which happened a decade later.
We regret to note the passing of former "Big 8" Chief Engineer, Ed Buterbaugh on September 1, 2008. As Art Vuolo, Jr. wrote on Michiguide.com:
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Ed Buterbaugh, one of the greatest and most respected chief engineers in the radio industry. Ed, who we reported in this column several weeks ago, was suffering from bladder cancer and died over the holiday weekend. The cancer was diagnosed right around the time that he retired from a twenty year stint as the chief of engineering at WJR. While at CKLW, Ed was the mastermind behind the big booming sound of the station in its hey-day as "The Big 8." The signal that he fine-tuned from a cluster of five towers in rural Harrow, Ontario, was legendary. He lived only a few miles from that transmitter site. In 1984 he remodeled all of the studios at CKLW at a time when AM 800 had a morning show hosted by Erin Davis and Paul W. Smith, prior to his joining WJR on a fulltime basis, which happened a decade later.
65 years old.
We regret to note the passing of former "Big 8" Chief Engineer, Ed Buterbaugh on September 1, 2008. As Art Vuolo, Jr. wrote on Michiguide.com:
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Ed Buterbaugh, one of the greatest and most respected chief engineers in the radio industry. Ed, who we reported in this column several weeks ago, was suffering from bladder cancer and died over the holiday weekend. The cancer was diagnosed right around the time that he retired from a twenty year stint as the chief of engineering at WJR. While at CKLW, Ed was the mastermind behind the big booming sound of the station in its hey-day as "The Big 8." The signal that he fine-tuned from a cluster of five towers in rural Harrow, Ontario, was legendary. He lived only a few miles from that transmitter site. In 1984 he remodeled all of the studios at CKLW at a time when AM 800 had a morning show hosted by Erin Davis and Paul W. Smith, prior to his joining WJR on a fulltime basis, which happened a decade later.
We regret to note the passing of former "Big 8" Chief Engineer, Ed Buterbaugh on September 1, 2008. As Art Vuolo, Jr. wrote on Michiguide.com:
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Ed Buterbaugh, one of the greatest and most respected chief engineers in the radio industry. Ed, who we reported in this column several weeks ago, was suffering from bladder cancer and died over the holiday weekend. The cancer was diagnosed right around the time that he retired from a twenty year stint as the chief of engineering at WJR. While at CKLW, Ed was the mastermind behind the big booming sound of the station in its hey-day as "The Big 8." The signal that he fine-tuned from a cluster of five towers in rural Harrow, Ontario, was legendary. He lived only a few miles from that transmitter site. In 1984 he remodeled all of the studios at CKLW at a time when AM 800 had a morning show hosted by Erin Davis and Paul W. Smith, prior to his joining WJR on a fulltime basis, which happened a decade later.
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