Chicago's (and San Diego's) Jerry G. Bishop: Super 'CFL and Svengoolie-- Part 1

From Wikipedia. I wrote about his death in September in my Cooter's History Thing blog and was thinking, besides Svengoolie, I remembered him being on WCFL-Am 1000 in Chicago. He was. My high school and college days were spent listening to WCFL and their "enemy station," WLS, a whole lot. These were the stations Chicago kids listened to.

JERRY G. BISHOP (August 3, 1936-Sept. 15, 2013). Radio/TV personality, creator of the original Svengoolie and 12-year host of "Sun-Up San Diego."

Born Jairus Samuel Ghan in Chicago. Attended school in Chicago, then Wright Jr. College, University of Illinois and Columbia College in Chicago. He got his first radio job at Evanston, Illinois's WNMP-AM in 1961 where he was morning-show host. Then he went to WPGC in Washington, DC, and Cleveland Giant KYW (I thought stations east of the Mississippi began with W) where he was nighttime dj using his first and last names. The program director got him to use just G. for last name, Jerry G.