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Chuck Southcott has been a radio personality

Radio personality

A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

 and program director

Program director

In service industries, such as education, a program director or programme director researches, plans, develops and implements one or more of the firm's professional services...

 of various Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

s for over 25 years. Some stations he's been involved with include KGIL, KPRZ

KPRZ

1210 KPRZ is owned and operated by Salem Communications and offers Christian talk such as David Jeremiah and Christian music on Saturday nights for the San Diego market. It is licensed to San Marcos, California. The three broadcast antennas are near the area in the city, which recently became a...

, KMPC

KMPC

KMPC is a radio station based in Los Angeles, California and is owned by P&Y Broadcasting Licensee, LLC. Radio Korea is a division of the Radio Korea Media Group. The station airs Korean-language programming...

, KJQI, KKJZ

KKJZ

KKJZ is a non-commercial public radio station in Southern California broadcasting from the Long Beach State campus. The station is one of several public radio stations in Southern California presenting jazz and blues....

 and KKLA-FM

KKLA-FM

KKLA-FM is a Christian talk and teaching radio station serving Los Angeles and owned by Salem Media. During the week from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. the station features Christian call in talk shows. After 7 p.m. and on weekends the station runs ministries and teaching programs such as J. Vernon McGee, John F...

 in Los Angeles. In that time, Southcott has worked alongside Robert W. Morgan

Robert W. Morgan

Robert Wilbur Morgan was an award-winning morning radio personality best known for his work at several stations in Los Angeles, California, in particular KHJ-AM....

, Wink Martindale

Wink Martindale

Winston Conrad Martindale , known professionally as Wink Martindale, is an American disc jockey and television game show host.-Radio:...

, Gary Owens

Gary Owens

Gary Owens is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens is equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and is...

, Charlie Tuna

Charlie Tuna

Charlie Tuna is the stage name of Art Ferguson , a radio personality based in Los Angeles, California currently working at KRTH-FM....

, Jim Lange

Jim Lange

Jim Lange is a former American game show host and disc jockey. He was particularly well known to listeners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles radio markets with stints at several stations in both markets, racking up over 45 years on the air...

, Sweet Dick Whittington

Sweet Dick Whittington

Sweet Dick Whittington is a long-time disc jockey in Los Angeles, who has also appeared as an actor in movies and on television.Prior to his arrival in Southern California, Whittington was a popular radio personality in the San Francisco Bay area at Oakland's KROW , where he hosted the "Night...

, Dick Whittinghill

Dick Whittinghill

Dick Whittinghill was an American movie and television actor, recording artist and radio disc jockey in the United States...

 and Peter Marshall, among others.

Early Years

Southcott entered radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 as a 15 year old disc jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 on WSTA, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea and with the islands of Saint John, Saint Croix, and Water Island a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States. Located on the island is the territorial capital and port of...

. He and his family were living on their boat in St. Thomas and were taking tourists on chartered skin diving, scuba diving

Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....

 and spearfishing

Spearfishing

Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia. Early civilizations were familiar with the custom of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks....

 trips. Rick Ricardo, a WSTA DJ and diving friend of Southcott's suggested he consider working at the radio station. After some mentoring from Ricardo, Chuck was hired and began his broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 career at an unusually young age.

Career

Chuck Southcott was named Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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 “Disc Jockey of the Year” and received both the Billboard and Gavin awards as national “Program Director of the Year.” While with KGIL that station was named “Radio Station of the Year” by Billboard magazine

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

. While at KMPC that station was given the Marconi Award by the NAB

National Association of Broadcasters

The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association, workers union, and lobby group representing the interests of for-profit, over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States...

 as “Radio Station of the Year.” It was while Chuck was the midday air personality and Program Director at KPRZ that he worked with Al Ham

Al Ham

Albert W. Ham was an American composer and jingle writer. He was notable as the composer of the Move Closer to Your World music package used since the 1970s on WPVI-TV's Action News broadcasts in Philadelphia, as well as many on many other newscasts in the United States throughout the 1970s and...

 in re-structuring and updating the “Music of Your Life

Music of Your Life

Music of Your Life is a satellite-delivered radio network featuring the Adult Standards music format. Created by record executive and jingle writer Al Ham, and now under the direction of Marc Angell, Music of Your Life has more than 50 AM, FM and HD-2 radio station affiliates, and has been in...

” format for future satellite distribution. From 1995-2007, Southcott served as both Program Director and air personality for Music Of Your Life.

In addition to his years as PD and afternoon personality on MOYL, Southcott has also been the morning host for the Jones Radio Network’s

Jones Radio Networks

Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. JRN and JMN provide local radio stations with satellite-delivered formats. They also offer other services to local radio such as news and talk programs, syndicated radio shows,...

 nationally distributed “Jones Standards

Jones Standards

Jones Standards was a short-lived 24-hour music format that was produced by Jones Radio Networks. Its playlist is composed of mostly adult standards from artists such as Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Rod Stewart and a dozen more artists....

” format, and host of the internationally syndicated weekly show, “Musical.”

As a southern California

Southern California

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 broadcaster, Southcott has also done work in Hollywood film

Film

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 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 productions as a voiceover talent. Southcott also served as music consultant for the 1997 film, “Fools Rush In”, starring Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry is Canadian-American television and film actor.Matthew Perry or Matt Perry may also refer to:*Matthew C. Perry , American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West...

 and Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...

.

On the air, Chuck Southcott has presented various genres of music, but primarily Adult Pop Standards. One of his signature features has been his “biographies in sound” of Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...

, Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

, Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

, Steve Allen

Steve Allen

Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...

, Milton Berle

Milton Berle

Milton Berlinger , better known as Milton Berle, was an American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , in 1948 he was the first major star of U.S. television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr...

 and Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...

. Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...

 gave her last extended radio interview to Chuck at her home in Bel Air, California.

Currently, Southcott can be heard mornings on Retro-1260, KGIL in Los Angeles (which streams at http://www.retro.1260.com). Chuck also continues to syndicate his THIS IS MUSIC Standards radio format, and fully hosted syndication package.

Chuck Southcott’s son, Karl Southcott is also a broadcaster. Currently, Karl works on Dial Global

Dial Global

Dial Global is a radio syndication company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Triton Media Group and is a sister company to Townsquare Media, both of which are owned by Oaktree Capital Management....

 Radio Networks syndicated Adult Standards format as Carl Hampton.

Off the air, Chuck Southcott has served as President of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters

Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters

Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters was founded in 1966 by veteran announcer Art Gilmore and 178 other original members, with Edgar Bergen as the founding chairman of the board...

 as well as Vice President of the World Childhood Leukemia Council and on the AFTRA

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists , promo and voice-over announcers and other...

Los Angeles Board.