EXCLUSIVE PTBTV / Pushin' The Bay TV interview featuring Chuy Gomez of 106.1 KMEL, Part 1 of 2 - interviewed by Ray Luv & Emcee T; on location at KMEL studios. Wake up with Chuy in the MORNING!!! Chuy's nearly 10-year run on KMEL is one of the longest in the Bay Area and a rarity on youth-oriented urban stations.

CMC Television is programmed like radio, but with pictures. Of course, it's really nothing new. Situation comedies, soaps, action, drama, news, sports, game and variety shows, indeed NBC, CBS, and ABC, all originated on radio. Just as radio turned to records when television and FM fragmented the radio audiences, television and even the internet and wireless turn to music for entertainment. This is not the music of the old American Bandstand, Ed Sullivan ,and traditional TV variety shows. This is music video, records with pictures.

Today, virtually every popular song is available in video. All the major record companies, as well as small independent producers solicit CMC to receive air play on this important promoitonal outlet. The vast CMC music video library exceeds 30,000 titles.

CMC is unlike all other music video offerings from the national cable networks, video clip sties, or wireless. CMC is truely radio with pictures. Like successful music radio, CMC is local and live. CALIFORNIA MUSIC CHANNEL serves the San Francisco Bay Area on privately owned, full power, independent, KTSF-TV San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose. KTSF is broadcast over the air on crystal clear digital channel 26.1 with 2.5 million watts of power. The signal is carried on all Bay Area cable systems primarily on Comcast Cable channel 8.

For Bay Area radio listeners, Chuy Gomez is hip-hop.

The DJ is No. 1 among younger listeners, ages 18 to 34. What makes him so popular? It could be his boundless energy, strong local ties, longevity and an outgoing, approachable personality. But the thing that resonates with listeners is his street credibility, said Marcos Gutierrez, a lecturer in broadcasting at City College of San Francisco and a former DJ.

"He knows what happens in the street; that's his forte," Gutierrez said. "He can't lose that edge, that hunger, and is very conscious about what is said and what is happening in the street and in music. Plus, he uses the proper words to reflect that."

Gomez lives the music from sunup to sundown - his morning show on KMEL-FM (106.1), an afternoon music video program on the California Music Channel, gigs at nightclubs and weekend promotional appearances.

All this with four hours of sleep and a smile.

"It's the same music, but it's the people who make every day different," Gomez, 33, said. "It's people that smile, that's what makes me enjoy what I do."

PUSHIN' THE BAY TV (PTBTV) is the most informative, up to date, and entertaining resource for classic Bay Area hip-hop. Founded by artist/entrepreneur Emcee T in 2006 PTBTV has consistently delivered thought provoking and retrospective interviews with veteran Bay Area artists, as well as rare insight to and behind the scene footage of legends such as Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

Filmed by Shaun Tai & Linda Poeng. Produced & Edited by Shaun Tai for SHAUN TAI Films. ©2009