I can't wait for Mornings with Michael Savage.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Didn't Cochran's show used to start at 5:00 AM and while everyone else who was part of the show was in studio, Cochran called in from his car for the first hour? Was there a reason for that besides him just not wanting to get there in time for a 5:00 AM start?

No, just couldn't bother showing up to work on time

Cochran seemed like a great WGN-kinda guy about 15 years ago but has been exposed in any timeslot other than middays when the Cubs don't play.

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What an asshole. I'm sure that went over real well with the rest of the people on the show who had to be there by 5:00.

He's just a lazy fat fuck who's sucked enough dick to do whatever he wants.

Cochran back in the day had a really sunny, almost cloying tone to his show. Not quite David Stein what's-good-in-your-life, but it was very, for lack of a better term, WGN-y talk. I think WGN has tried to recapture that with a couple of fill-in guys (that St. Augustine guy) because Cochran himself is just a grumpy half-awake clod now.

Like Nick D, he was another guy that the boards all seemed to want the best for. At some point he got promoted to afternoons (I think it was a simple flip with John Williams), but there was no satisfaction or eventual disappointment from the move. He got a better timeslot and everyone stopped caring altogether. Then Randy Michaels fired him.

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CH : who are your top 3 radio professionals in Chicago you've witnessed during your career?

I don't understand the phrasing. I haven't really "witnessed" anyone downtown, only worked with some people in Milwaukee and Lake County, and certainly nothing I'd call a career.

Off the top of my head, Norm Pellegrini, Norm Winer, and Jimmy DeCastro would probably be the most accomplished people in the semi-modern history of Chicago radio.

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I think Cochran's time in Minneapolis influenced that style. The big station up there was WCCO and their slogan was 'Good Neighbor to the North'. Getting fired from KDWB was a huge blow for him. He didn't see it coming. I remember him being interviewed the day after on another station and one of his comedy club buddies called in to gloat. Cochran thought it was a bit, but this guy was seriously happy that Cochran had gotten fired.

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"I give you my word as a Biden"

You never recover from Pig Virus.

Seriously, though, AM is dying. It's held on longer and stronger in Chicago than virtually anywhere else, but now the death throes are here too. Once Sinclair takes over the station will get less local and more political and that'll be all she wrote.

Dan Lee and Seth Mason are pretty accomplished as well.

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WGN radio lost their way 20 years ago. Never have recovered nor will they.

It happened when the cancelled the Noon Show.

I'm assuming you're referring to the death of Bob Collins? That was definitely a major blow to the station, but I think they were able to manage it somewhat well by promoting Spike O'Dell. If anything set them off course never to recover, it was Spike's retirement several years later.

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