John Gallagher - In the Still of the Night: The Education of John Gallagher. Saturdays, 1am-5am.
John Gallagher
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Gallagher is the newest addition to the New Classical 96.3 fm line-up. A 25-year on-air veteran of the Toronto airwaves on both TV and radio, John's got decades of morning show experience with the biggest and most successful teams in Canada. John is also a Foster Hewitt award winner, nine-time Toronto Sun Readers' Choice winner, RPM magazine gold medal winner, and host of the #1 talk show in the country, "Gallagher" on TSN. That, and of course, 15 years under Moses Znaimer's helm at Citytv.
John is an avid collector of music, with over 4,000 CDs and LPs, many of them classical, as part of a massive library. He's a news, information, and pop culture junkie, a self-described "foodie," and a closet wine expert who's hooked to the Food Network. He's also a world traveler, vacationing in such far away places as Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich, Paris, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin (dozens of times, chasing his Irish roots), not to mention 40 or so trips to a handful of Caribbean islands to upgrade that year-long tan.
He's the kind of person who wants to jump on his bike, like in the movie "Breaking Away," when Mendelssohn's "Italian" starts playing, or bounce on a trampoline like Geoffrey Rush in "Shine" while listening to Rachmaninoff's "Rach 3," or change the channel to NBC just to hear John William's news theme at 6:58 every night. Says Mr. Gallagher, "Step into the sun my friend, because this is the church of classical music, and every day is Sunday." Catch his eccentric take on the classics as he educates himself and takes you along for the ride.
