The Steve Cochran Show

Last updated February 28, 2019

The Steve Cochran Show is the title of two talk shows on 720 WGN AM in Chicago, Illinois hosted by Steve Cochran. The original, airing in the afternoon drive, ran from February 2000 until its cancellation in June 2010. The current is Cochran's second stint at WGN, this time as morning-drive host, which began in September 2013. It airs from 5-10 a.m.

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Steve Cochran is an American radio broadcaster. He hosts the morning show at WGN in Chicago. He previously worked at WGN from 2000 to 2010.

Show features

Show introduction

At the beginning of the show, Steve "starts the show" by having a passer-by on Michigan Avenue read an introduction. The introduction typically references a current event and incorporates a fictitious piece of trivia about Steve (referred to as "this man") at the end. The introduction is concluded with the phrase, "Here's Steve Cochran!". The show's theme music follows the introduction.

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A typical introduction might be:

"Audrey Tautou was recently announced to be Tom Hanks' co-star in the upcoming movie The Da Vinci Code. This man was once selected to be Tom's co-star in Cast Away but was replaced by a volleyball at the last minute. Here's Steve Cochran!"

Audrey Justine Tautou is a French actress and model. Signed by an agent at age 17, she made her acting debut at 18 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Venus Beauty Institute (1999), for which she received critical acclaim and won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Le Libertin and Happenstance (2000).

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as Splash (1984), Big (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Apollo 13 (1995), You've Got Mail (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and Sully (2016). He has also starred in the Robert Langdon film series, and voices Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series.

The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel of the same name. The first in the Robert Langdon film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Sir Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno, and Paul Bettany. In the film, Robert Langdon, a professor of religious iconography and symbology from Harvard University, is the prime suspect in the grisly and unusual murder of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière. In the body, the police find a disconcerting cipher and start an investigation. A noted British Grail historian named Sir Leigh Teabing tells them that the actual Holy Grail is explicitly encoded in Leonardo da Vinci's wall painting, The Last Supper. Also searching for the Grail is a secret cabal within Opus Dei, an actual prelature of the Holy See, who wish to keep the true Grail a secret to prevent the destruction of Christianity.

Kid of the Week

Once a week, Steve honors a "Kid of the Week" by speaking with a kid who has "done something that is super, spectacular, and fantastic".^[1]

Notes

↑ WGN Radio - Kid of the Week

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