Chris Cowey (born c. 1961 in Sunderland) is an English television producer specialising in music shows.
[1][2] Cowey co-presented the Tyne Tees television pop show All Right Now and spent several years as a DJ 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 in the 1980s.
He co-presented Check It Out 1979 to 1982 and was one of the interviewers of the notorious appearance of John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) when he walked off set, leaving Cowey shaken.
[3] He became one of the judges on the ITV1 reality show Soapstar Superstar in 2006[4] and reprised this role in 2007.