Chris Cowey

Chris Cowey (b. c. 1961 in Sunderland) is a television producer specialising in music shows, who most notably produced Top of the Pops from 1997 until 2003. He co-presented the Tyne Tees television pop show "All Right Now" and spent several years as a disc jockey at Sunderland Mayfair (Mecca) in the late 1970s. He also produced the Channel 4 music show The White Room between 1995 and 1996 and worked on The Tube in Newcastle the 1980s.

He became one of the judges on ITV1 reality show Soapstar Superstar in 2006 and reprised this role in 2007.

He is a supporter of Sunderland A.F.C.

References

• Pareles, Jon (6 January 2002). "Television/Radio; Seeing, at Last, How Britain Counts Down the Hits". New York Times. Retrieved 12 December 2008. 
• "Peters takes on Top of the Pops". BBC News Online (BBC). 23 July 2003. Retrieved 12 December 2008.