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Media: June 2021 β€’ “Steve King’s Cult 45”

Media: June 2021 β€’ “Steve King’s Cult 45”

| May 31, 2021 | 0 Comments

People in Chicago know Steve King for his four–decade run as a radio DJ and talk show host (WLS, WGN), but before his legendary radio career began, he was doing something else entirely. β€œI was a full-time musician. That was my career in the early β€˜60s. Even when I first got into radio (1966), If […]

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Media: October 2016

Media: October 2016

| October 1, 2016 | 2 Comments

In 2014, when WGN Radio unveiled their Walk of Fame, two of the inductees were their long-time overnight team – the husband and wife radio duo of Steve King and Johnnie Putman. β€œThat was one of those pinch-me moments,” King says now. β€œTo be mentioned in the same breath as Wally Phillips and Bob Collins […]

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