Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of June 30, 2013
Edition #738

Talent: CHUCK MORGAN
Station: CKGM Montréal
Date: February 6, 1977
Time: 59:39 (unscoped)

CKGM “Summer of 98” Concerts Series of the mid-late '70s, Montreal Forum, with contest winners, Beach Boy Carl Wilson, CKGM emcess Marc Denis (back) and CKGM swing jock and promotions director Chuck Morgan (far right)                          

   (Description by Marc Denis)

In the long and colourful history of 98 CKGM Montreal, no decade was more prominent nor more successful than the 1970s. The legendary AM Top 40 rocker in La Belle Province garnered huge ratings and attracted nothing but the top on-air talents from across Canada and the U.S. during that special era.

One of the highly-memorable Americans to smoke the airwaves in Montreal during the '70s was Chuck Morgan (aka Tom Watson). Energy, enthusiasm, personality…the “Chucker” brought it all and took no prisoners during two different stints on the Great 98 during the 1970s. Aside from his tenure in Montreal during the '70s, the well-traveled Watson also worked on-air at CHUM Toronto (overnights), WQXI-FM Atlanta, WNCI Columbus Ohio, KJR Seattle, KIFM San Diego, KEZR San Jose, KVIL Dallas, KXKL Denver, WOLL West Palm Beach, Fla. (PM drive and PD) and KJLL Los Angeles, the latter as Director of Operations and Programming.

Tom Watson (aka Chuck Morgan) today

The Tennessee-born Watson has won many awards including a Billboard PD of the Year & Marconi Award, another as Consultant of the Year by Billboard Magazine and was named One of America’s Best PDs by Radio INK four different times throughout his stellar broadcasting journey.

Tom Watson is currently President of A.C.C. Consulting & Marketing International based in Burbank California and has consulted radio stations in Australia, Hong Kong, London, Dublin, Stockholm, and Istanbul as well as in the U.S.A. in the areas of management, on-air talent development and coaching, morning show talent development, promotions, programming, music, marketing, and sales.

Says Marc Denis, creator and curator of the CKGM Montreal Super 70s Tribute Pages:

“As I celebrate 10 years of building the CKGM Super 70s Tribute Pages online, and on RRS creator-curator Dale Patterson’s special invitation, allow me to thank Dale for his on-going support of my initiative and to thank the dozens of ex-listeners and ex-employees of 980 CKGM now scattered around the world who forwarded CKGM audio and visual memorabilia of all kinds my way between 2003 and 2013. I started out July 1^st, 2003 with a mere page or two of sparse material, so proud to say that 10 years later, the CKGM Tribute Pages have grown to 5 fully-documented sections with a 6^th chronicling the CKGM 50^th Anniversary Alumni Reunion of 2009. A big heartfelt merci beaucoup to all…and keep it coming, mes amis, as we continue together to write the CKGM Montreal story for all to enjoy, mais oui  !

And now, to celebrate 10 years online, MUCH MORE MUSIC with one of my great on-air colleagues of those memorable CKGM Super 70s years…”

Enjoy Chuck Morgan on CKGM, unscoped, here.

(The Marc Denis Collection)