Michael Williams is a Canadian television personality who may be best known for his work as a VJ at

MuchMusic Much (an abbreviation for its full name MuchMusic) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary that airs programming aimed at teenagers and young adults. MuchMusic launched on August 31 ...

from 1984 to 1993. Born in

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, Williams moved to

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in the 1970s to attend the Communications Arts School at Loyola (now

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). Williams was part of MuchMusic's core opening team of VJ's alongside

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, Christopher Ward, and Denise Donlon. At MuchMusic, Williams hosted various shows including ''Soul in the City'', ''

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'', '' Electric Circus'', ''

Pepsi Power Hour The ''Pepsi Power Hour'' was a live one-hour program that aired on the MuchMusic television channel in Canada from 1986 to 1991. It ran once weekly every Thursday, until 1989 when a Tuesday hour was added. The show was dedicated to hard rock and ...

'' and ''

The NewMusic ''The NewMusic'' was a weekly music and culture television newsmagazine that aired on the Canadian television stations owned by CHUM Limited: MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, Citytv, A-Channel and CP24. Created by John Martin, and intended to combine ...

''. He was recently a

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as host of the program ''College of Musical Knowledge'' on Wave 94.7br>
Previous radio work included Montreal's

CHOM-FM CHOM-FM is an English-language radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it broadcasts on 97.7 MHz from the Mount Royal candelabra tower, with an effective radiated power of 41,200 watts ( class C1) usi ...

and

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-AM, and in

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at CHUM-FM. Williams also owns Black Rose Recording Studios in Toronto and since , he has been teaching. Williams also works as an occasional fill-in host on

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in Toronto. Williams is a regular on-air contributor to CTV News's entertainment segment "Noteworthy".

References

External links

The Ruckus - Audio Interview with Michael Williams from December 2008
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