- Chuck Southcott
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Chuck Southcott has been a radio personality and program director of various Los Angeles radio stations for over 25 years. Some stations he's been involved with include KGIL, KPRZ, KMPC, KJQI, KKJZ and KKLA-FM in Los Angeles. In that time, Southcott has worked alongside Robert W. Morgan, Wink Martindale, Gary Owens, Charlie Tuna, Jim Lange, Sweet Dick Whittington, Dick Whittinghill and Peter Marshall, among others.[1][2]
Southcott entered radio as a 15 year old disc jockey on WSTA, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. He and his family were living on their boat in St. Thomas and were taking tourists on chartered skin diving, scuba diving and spearfishing 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 career at an unusually young age.
Chuck Southcott was named Los Angeles Times “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. While at KMPC that station was given the Marconi Award by the NAB 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 in re-structuring and updating the “Music of Your Life” 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 nationally distributed “Jones Standards” format, and host of the internationally syndicated weekly show, “Musical.”[3]
As a southern California broadcaster, Southcott has also done work in Hollywood film and television productions as a voiceover talent. Southcott also served as music consultant for the 1997 film, “Fools Rush In”, starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.[4]
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, Henry Mancini, Duke Ellington, Steve Allen, Milton Berle and Nat King Cole. Peggy Lee 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 Radio Networks syndicated Adult Standards format as Carl Hampton.[5][6]
Off the air, Chuck Southcott has served as President of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters[7] as well as Vice President of the World Childhood Leukemia Council[8] and on the AFTRA Los Angeles Board.[9]
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