PERSON: Steve Cochran

Live From My Office Podcast

Podcast Host

Steve Cochran (born March 14, 1961) is an American radio broadcaster. He hosted the morning show at WGN in Chicago from 2013 to December 2019. He previously worked at WGN from 2000 to 2010. After leaving WGN in 2019, he started the podcast “Live from my Office,” sponsored by Team Hochberg. He has been the morning host for WLS (AM) in Chicago since June 2022.

Cochran was originally hired by WGN in early 2000 as a substitute host in various rotating shifts. He became a regular host unexpectedly after morning drive time host, Bob Collins, was killed in a collision while piloting his private airplane. To replace Collins, Spike O’Dell moved from afternoon drive to morning drive, John Williams moved from mid-afternoon to afternoon drive and Cochran filled the mid-afternoon time slot. The Williams and Cochran shows swapped time slots in 2007.

He broadcast The Steve Cochran Show on weekday afternoons. He described his show as being “a combination of funny and serious elements with special attention paid to charitable causes and kid issues.”

WGN management decided not to renew Cochran’s contract in mid-2010. His final day on the air was June 25, 2010. He returned to the station in July 2013. Steve was let go from WGN radio on December 20, 2019.

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