Rock Radio Scrapbook


AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of July 11, 2010
Weekly issue #588

Talent: JOHN MAJHOR with BROTHER CHRISTOPHER
Station: CHUM Toronto
Date: June 22, 1984
Time: 40:43

(Picture courtesy John Christopher Sutton)

(Sutton, top, Majhor, below. Jay Nelson is at left)

It's every radiophile's dream - to get on the air at a big station with your favourite jock.

John Christopher Sutton did it.

In June 1984, John Majhor held down the 6-9 p.m. shift at CHUM. He was one of CHUM's most popular jocks during its latter days as a Top 40 station, capping his 11-year stay there with a stint in mornings from 1985 to 1986. But as Sutton tells Rock Radio Scrapbook, he was much more than a voice on the radio...

"I first met John Majhor in 1977. I was 15 years old and John was 24. I was blown away by John's style and personality on the air. I called him on the request line and asked him many questions, thus my love for radio was born. A couple of months went by when I called him again and he remembered me and asked me why it took me so long to call him, then he invited me down to the radio station to see what it was all about. We became instant friends and he showed me the ropes.

I began doing my stint as Brother Christopher in 1982. That came about when an opportunity was at hand for a job at CFMX-FM. I asked John if at some point we could get together and do a demo and John said let's just go on the air together and use that as the demo. The name Brother Christopher was given to me by John and he would use the name and ask people to call the request line and talk with me. I took the top 7 at 7 votes and we did the feature for the History of Rock Film. 

I did get the other job but turned it down after realizing it just wasn't for me, went back to John and he told me the response was so good that we'll keep it up here and see what happens. I did that feature with John until 1984. I never did get my own shift at CHUM but I was offered by management an hour's pay everyday to answer the request line on John's show but of course I couldn't do that - I was working full time in telemarketing making pretty good money.

I would have to say that meeting John, knowing him and the time I spent at CHUM will be one of the most memorable times in my entire life. It was his influence and God's guidance that brought me to my career in radio. Up until September 2009 I was doing afternoon drive and Saturday nights at 2 UCB Canada radio stations, CKJJ Belleville and CKGW in Chatham Kent as Jay Christy."

Enjoy Majhor - with special guest Brother Christopher - here.

(The John Christopher Sutton (a.k.a. Brother Christopher) Collection)

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