Music in his blood
Michael Godin has been involved in music and broadcasting in Canada since 1969. When he was 16 years old, he had a high school radio station and even interviewed John Lennon during his Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Michael was music director and disc jockey with CFQR, CFCF, CJFM – all in Montreal; and CFOM in Quebec City. His voiceover work includes being the voice for two Mattel Toys television commercials, the “He-Man Power Sword” and the “Skeletor Skull Staff”, which ran for two years in the United States. He joined A&M Records Canada in Toronto in the fall of 1975, as Director of Artist and Repertoire. Later he became Vice-President Artist & Repertoire with A&M Records, where he signed and helped develop the career of Bryan Adams. Michael also worked with Lance Freed, President of Rondor Music International, the music publishing division of A&M Records and son of Rock & Roll pioneer Disc Jockey, Alan Freed.
In 1986, he moved to Vancouver on the West Coast of Canada and started Michael Godin Management Inc., a full service artist management group, a music publishing company (West Broadway Music and East Broadway Music) and a consulting company. One of his clients was the multi-award winning recording artist and songwriter, Paul Janz.
As a management consultant, Michael provides a variety of services to broadcasters, media and arts companies, individual recording artists, and managers. In the 1990s and early 2000s Michael represented Canadian pioneer disc jockey Red Robinson, one of the seven original DJs in North America to play rhythm and blues and rock & roll music on radio, Red has been recognized by many organizations including his election to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Rockabilly Hall of Fame, Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and more.
From 1986 to 1993, Michael was a National Director of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), the organization presents the annual Juno Awards, Canada’s network televised music award show which recognizes excellence in recording achievement. He was also Chairman of the Board of the B.C. Chapter of CARAS, which for ten years staged the annual West Coast Music Awards. At the end of his tenure, he was presented with his own Juno Award for outstanding service to the Academy. In 1998, on behalf of CARAS, Michael hosted an Internet first, the live online video presentation of the Juno Awards Backstage and conducted interviews with many of the winners.
From 1993 to 2005, Michael also managed the Western Canada operations of NABS, the National Advertising Benevolent Society, a non-profit charitable organization which helps people from the advertising, marketing and media community across Canada who have encountered illness, injury, unemployment, or financial difficulties, and Michael organized a variety of annual events that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the charity.
1997 heralded Michael’s return to on-air broadcasting when he launched Treasure Island Oldies as its host and producer. Treasure Island Oldies became a pioneering show and today is one of the world’s longest running weekly radio shows on the Internet. Since the show began in 1997, Treasure Island Oldies has been working closely with Hugh Dobbie Jr and the online streaming companies he started. In the fall of 2016, Hugh’s new venture, Yare Media, is the exclusive online streaming host for Treasure Island Oldies.
Michael also worked in Television media sales with KVOS MeTV, Vancouver. He built and maintained strong relationships with advertising clients and helped them bring their message to the over one million monthly viewers, the 50 Plus Baby Boomers.
In 2017 Treasure Island Oldies celebrated its 20th Anniversary! Treasure Island Oldies has been carried on dozens of AM, FM and Online radio stations in the United States, Canada, China, Cypus, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, Sweden, and New Zealand, as part of the Treasure Island Oldies Broadcast Partners Network.
