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At the age of 18, Steve attended Ithaca College for a year before dropping out to start his radio career.
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He hosts the morning show at in Chicago He previously worked at from 2000 to 2010. Steve Cochran was adopted. He sold radio advertising for a summer before starting his career at WTKO in his home town as a DJ. Between 1981 and 2007, Steve has worked at 14 radio stations in 10 cities (including New York, Baltimore, Miami, Minneapolis (KDWB 1013 FM), Saint Louis, Detroit, and Chicago) in 8 states.
In 1993, he had a cameo as a television weather man in the film Grumpy Old Men.
Steve returned to Chicago airways on October 3, 2011, via Department of Administration and Management 560 WIND. His show ended on June 29, 2013. He also hosted the midday show at KTRS in Saint Louis from 2010-2013.
On September 3, 2013, Cochran began hosting the morning show at 720
Steve Cochran was originally hired by 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 Steve 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"
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.
Cochran lives in Naperville, Illinois.
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Outside of radio, Steve Cochran also does stand up comedy and has done comedy shows on New Year"s Eve.
