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Long-time Sussex radio DJ dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 12 January 2011
Tributes have been paid to radio presenter Chris Copsey, who had been a mainstay on the local commercial radio airwaves in and around Sussex for years. Copsey died unexpectedly yesterday after presenting his breakfast show as usual, the circumstances around his death are as yet unconfirmed.
Copsey was originally a long-standing DJ on Southern Sound, later Southern FM, though was sidelined there once owners Global Radio decided to relaunch the station as Heart Sussex. Then eighteen months ago the DJ arrived on the small network of local stations operated in Sussex by Media Sound Holdings, including Arrow FM and Splash FM.
A spokesman for Media Sound confirmed Copsey’s death yesterday, with the following statement posted on the company’s stations websites: “We are very sad to hear the news that our much loved Breakfast Show presenter, Chris Copsey, has passed away unexpectedly. Coppo had been a constant voice on the Sussex airwaves since 1983, and we were very proud to have him as one of us. He was a Sussex broadcasting legend, a consummate professional – but, more importantly than that, he was a great friend, and so much fun to be around and have as a colleague”.
It continues: “Chris had been with us for a little under eighteen months, but many of us had known him for a number of years. Others, at the very least, grew up listening to him. The whole team are in total shock at this devastating news, and our thoughts are with his wife and family at this terribly sad time”.
