Steve Cochran
Host

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Career Highlights:

• From 2000 to 2010, Steve Cochran was on the air at WGN. His topics ranged from the news of the day to entertainment and comedy.

Steve Cochran Biography:

Steve Cochran was the early afternoon host on WGN Radio. Steve is an easy-going guy that's equally at ease with covering the hard-hitting news and helping his listeners through the middle of their day. He updates the day's headlines with an analytical eye and his characteristic comedic slant. Steve's banter with his guests and fellow on-air crew make the day go by a lot quicker.

Steve Cochran was born and raised in upstate New York near Ithaca, in the shadows of Cornell University. The shadows of Cornell were the closest Steve came to an Ivy League education as he found out his grades were more suited to the TV-Radio-Broadcasting school at Ithaca College.

Radio has taken Steve to many places. He has hosted morning shows in Miami ("Nice weather"), Baltimore ("Good seafood"), St. Louis ("Nice arch"), Minneapolis ("Cold enough for you?"), and New York City ("Gee, the people are so friendly there. . . "). Here in Chicago, Steve was the morning host on WPNT-FM and WMVP-AM. He also hosted afternoons and evenings on WLUP-FM.

Over his career Steve has also done some silly acting in some meaningless roles in some average films. The one exception was when he appeared in "Grumpy Old Men" with the late Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The role was crucial: He played the TV weatherman. Surprisingly, Steve was not nominated for an Academy Award. If you rent it, remember it's the first one (the funny one) not the sequel. Steve says that because he still receives residual checks from the Screen Actors Guild.

Steve has performed with Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, and Gary Shandling to name a few- or three. He also has appeared on all the major networks as a talk show guest or news story. These many appearances include hosting Talk Back Live on CNN and playing an inept kidnapper on Unsolved Mysteries. Steve says that these two jobs were very similar.

His hope for the show was only that you liked it, and, if so, that you told your friends about it.