… I’m what you call your ‘Hot Ticket’ on the radio …
The self-proclaimed “Hot Ticket” was Chuck McKay, who had been temporarily scheduled overnights on CKLW in 1975. Program Director Bill Hennes, who became aware of McKay’s inexplicable performance via an early morning phone call from the station engineer, writes:
“He went nuts on the air. Today, instead of blowing him out, I would hire him and pay him big money for the same act.”
McKay was correct – this performance got him a “hot ticket” right out of the radio station – never to return – that very morning.
McKay, (real name Jim Welch), died of natural causes in Phoeniz, Arizona, in 2008. He was 59.