David Marsden is a Canadian radio broadcaster. As the driving force behind Brampton, Ontario radio station CFNY in the 1980s, he became one of the most influential figures in the Canadian music industry by giving many Canadian and international alternative rock artists their first major Canadian radio exposure. Nickname: Location in the Region of Peel, in the Province of Ontario Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Incorporation 1853 (village)   1873 (town)   1974 (city) Government  - Mayor Susan Fennell  - Governing Body Brampton City Council (click for members)  - MPs Navdeep Bains, Colleen Beaumier, Ruby Dhalla, Gurbax Malhi  - MPPs Vic Dhillon... CFNY is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ...

Early career

Born in Toronto, Marsden got his first radio job in Chatham, Ontario. He first came to fame in April 1963 as the fast-talking Dave Mickie, a DJ at Toronto's CKEY top-40 AM radio station, and called "the most controversial thing on Toronto radio."^[1] He left CKEY after just five months due to contract disputes. He hosted the weekly Mickie A Go Go on CHCH-TV in 1964-1966. AT the same time he became host of Music Hop on CBC Television in 1965, succeeding Alex Trebek. He also started writing a column for the Toronto Star in the same year. Nickname: Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Ontario County none–Single-tier municipality Established 1998 Government  - City Mayor Randy Hope  - Governing body Chatham-Kent Council  - MPs Bev Shipley (CPC) Dave Van Kesteren (CPC)  - MPPs Pat Hoy (OLP) Maria Van Bommel (OLP) Area  - City 2,458 km²  (949 sq mi) Elevation 198 m... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... CHKT is a Canadian radio station, airing at 1430 AM in Toronto, Ontario. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... CHCH is a television station in Hamilton, Ontario that is part of the CH system. ... CBC Television is the primary English language television service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Alex Trebek, with his once-iconic mustache, hosting a 1986 episode of Jeopardy! George Alexander Trebek (born as Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek [1] on July 22, 1940) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host whos best known as the host of the game... The Toronto Star is Canadas highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. ...

As David Marsden, he joined Montreal's CKGM (AM) in 1967, and in 1973 returned to Toronto with a completely different on-air persona at CHUM-FM. While at CHUM David was the first DJ in North America to air Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. He left the station in February 1976 to devote more time to his radio commercial production company. CKGM is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. ... CHUM-FM is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario and operated by CHUM Limited. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ... This article is about the Pink Floyd album. ...

David Marsden has made cameos in many recording productions, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Give Peace A Chance", in which he was one of many people clapping his hands in the room in which Lennon and Ono staged their "Bed-In for Peace".

Creates The Spirit Of Radio

Marsden was hired by station owner Leslie Allen as CFNY's program director in 1978. The station's mandate had been to present significantly different programming than other radio stations in the Greater Toronto Area, but before Marsden's arrival the station's format had been highly eclectic. Marsden saw the commercial potential of punk and new wave, and opened CFNY's focus, creating Canada's first alternative music station in the punk/new wave format. Throughout the 1980s, under the slogan the spirit of radio, CFNY was one of the most influential promoters of new International and Canadian artists most radio ignored. A map of Torontos Census Metropolitan Area, which contains a large portion of the Greater Toronto Area. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ...

The Artist RUSH wrote a song called 'The Spirit Of Radio' as a tribute to CFNY and the team producing this amazing radio.

In July 1987, Marsden and CFNY general manager Bill Hutton hired Don Berns as the new program director. Initially, Marsden continued as director of operations, and as executive producer of the CASBY Awards, but left CFNY a year later. He joined the CBC to produce the sucessful TV show Pilot 1. That show won several awards including Silver at the Chicago Film and Video Festival. Also some of those shows were seen on BBC UK. Following that Marsden launched another Progressive Free Form Modern Rock station, Coast 1040, in Vancouver. The CASBY Awards are a Canadian award for independent and alternative music, presented annually by Toronto radio station CFNY. The name CASBY stands for Canadian Artists Selected By You. ... CKST is a radio station located in Vancouver, BC, Canada currently owned by CHUM Limited. ...

Marsden in the 2000s

In the late 1990s Marsden became co-founder and vice-president of Internet music portal Iceberg Radio. As of 2002 he produces a show heard Thursday and Friday evenings on [CKGE-FM|The Rock 94.9]], (www.therock.fm) playing a freeform mix of classic rock and alternative rock music. Marsden continues to program the Iceberg Radio channel Vinyl FM. (www.icebergradio.com/vinylfm) Iceberg Radio is a Canadian Internet radio service, which provides 250 channels of streaming audio. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Marsden was Canada's first openly gay radio broadcaster,^{[citation needed]} and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's radio wing.^{[citation needed]} GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ...

References

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External links

• David Marsden at SpiritOfRadio
• David Marsden's Official Site