Anyone ever hear Gregg Doffin on WJOB Hammond? Morning show late 90's early 2000's, complete loony tune-right "Clinton wants to let the UN take over our lives" kook. He'd openly mock the speech of black callers "it's asked, not axed!". Sort of the heir apparent to Warren Freiberg in Da Region. Not long after 9/11 management deemed his brand of talk radio too controversial and canned him.

I will second the thoughts on Jay Marvin. I disagreed with him on a ton but he was great to listen to and even nicer when I met him in person.

Buz kilman sat night show- he was great with Steve and Garry but had his own show awhile. He'd have regular call ins who would be hilarious.The king of all idiots I remember for one. Can't believe he didn't do more solo on Chicago radio.

Jay Marvin during his first stint at WLS doing overnights was fucking awesome. Unapologetic flaming liberal with even anarchist leanings on a mostly conservative station. Laid into both the national GOP and the Daley machine relentlessly. He'd take unscreened calls (the Shootout) to start the show off, then when doing serious topics he would fight with callers to the point of screaming back and forth. He moved to Denver for a few years and came back, but it wasn't the same. WLS neutered him and eventually put him with this shrill woman in middays.

Didn't Jay Marvin have very serious health problems, like, almost died? I don't remember the timeline, but that may have had more to do with him calming down than WLS management (which, for a conservative talk station, gave a pretty long leash to liberal talk: Jay Marvin, Mike Malloy, some weekend hosts).

Gregg Doffin was a nut, but an entertaining nut. Whatever happened to him? I figured he'd resurface somewhere, but I never heard about him again.

Sex talk with Phyllis Levy on WLS.

That was one I couldn't remember her name. A charming lady

I remember that vaguely. That’s a long time ago.

Boers allows there's a danger: "I know Stan from Bellwood. I like Stan from Bellwood, I enjoy his company and I think he usually has something interesting to say. Is it fair to give Stan from Bellwood 8 minutes and hold another caller to 30 seconds? No, it's not. We try to balance the calls, not to show favoritism. It's a constant struggle."

Stan Pickett, a training associate with Smith Barney Shearson, became "Stan from Bellwood" shortly after the Score signed on in 1992, though he now lives "in the city." Pickett is a divorced father of two boys who has listened to sports talk since the days of Chuck Swirsky on WGN and Chet Coppock on WLUP. He remembers "occasionally calling Mike Murphy when he was at WLS," but downplays the Swirsky and Coppock programs ("Chet and Swirsk didn't really take calls of substance").

"Terry and I talk off the air," admits Pickett. "We go to the races and compare notes. My main sports are the horses, baseball and basketball, which also interest him. The only drawback I've seen is being recognized for my voice. If I open my mouth at one of the OTBs, somebody's there to say, `Hey, you're Stan from Bellwood! Which horse looks good?' "

Seka had one with a guy who sounded exactly like Stan from Bellwood. (Stan Lawrence).

And Dr. Ruth had a crazy show, once with a caller who claimed that he would pop his girlfriend's fake eye out and go to town.

But I loved Terry Armour and Stan's show on CKG, featuring Bonnie Green from time to time. And she was often hilarious.

Seka had one with a guy who sounded exactly like Stan from Bellwood. (Stan Lawrence).

And Dr. Ruth had a crazy show, once with a caller who claimed that he would pop his girlfriend's fake eye out and go to town.

But I loved Terry Armour and Stan's show on CKG, featuring Bonnie Green from time to time. And she was often hilarious.

Jake Hartford on weekend mornings
Murph on WLS
Sportswriters on weekends
Coppock's show pre-Score
Nate Clay on WLS
Rush during the Clinton years

Ed Tyll!

Jack Benny the greatest. Dont forget his radio fued w/ now forgotten Fred Allen.

Jay Marvin was fantastic in Chicago. When he came to WLS the airwaves were full of Rush Limbaugh and right wing radio personalities. Jay was a breath of fresh air.

Murph on WLS was great too.

JHood on the Score late nights was awesome.

I do remember Jake Hartford. He was a good listen . wow did not know he died.

Loved Nate Clay too.

Remember Bob Lassiter. I think that was his name. His show was just to get people angry.

Seka had one with a guy who sounded exactly like Stan from Bellwood. (Stan Lawrence).

And Dr. Ruth had a crazy show, once with a caller who claimed that he would pop his girlfriend's fake eye out and go to town.

But I loved Terry Armour and Stan's show on CKG, featuring Bonnie Green from time to time. And she was often hilarious.

Jake Hartford on weekend mornings
Murph on WLS
Sportswriters on weekends
Coppock's show pre-Score
Nate Clay on WLS
Rush during the Clinton years

remember the coach and the kid. the kid was like mike north wannabe. wonder if those 2 are still in radio.

It's the classic "get-a-shot-at-big-time-radio" story for Seth Marks and John Cohn.

As sparring hosts of the "Naked Truth about Sports" morning show on Arlington Heights-based WCBR-FM 92.7, the pair has carved out a small, mostly suburban following.

But they've apparently made a big enough impression that the team is being picked up by the city's top sports/talk station, WSCR-AM 1160, on overnights on Saturdays.

"We've got a shot here, hopefully," said Marks, 26, who is pursuing what he refers to as a dream job.

The team's original moniker will be replaced by "The Coach and the Kid." (Cohn, who is 41, used to be the girls varsity basketball coach at Highland Park High School and the softball coach at Loyola Academy.) The gabfest will be similar to what the pair is doing on WCBR.

"They do a nice job," said Ron Gleason, director of sports and programming at the Score. "They have a little bit of a following over there. It wasn't big. Seth at one point was a regular caller into the Score."

Marks and Cohn, who run separate businesses during the day, sent a number of stations demo tapes in anticipation of Big City Radio's takeover of the station next week.

Though the company isn't saying what the new format for WCBR will be, rumors center on a soft jazz format that likely will go up against WNUA-FM 95.9.