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January 7, 2019 12:03 pm  #1


How Chuck McCoy Got Into Radio & Wound Up At 1050 CHUM

This fascinating summary outlines how a kid in Winnipeg dreamed of a life in radio, starting as so many of us did by talking into a tape recorder and playing 45s in his basement, to literally standing in front of CHUM Toronto while on vacation as a young child and vowing he'd worked there some day. 

Of course, most here know that he did just that and a whole lot more. How that came to be is outlined in a remarkable mini-bio of a career that's worth reading if you ever listened to him at either CKFH or CHUM. 

The Chuck McCoy Story