Tom Petersen: Bob Collins memories and more

Tom Petersen started his long media career in Milwaukee as a disc jockey, and worked at WEMP in Milwaukee, WXYZ in Detroit, KWWL-TV in Waterloo/Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at a rock station in Duluth, Minnesota, and at WGN Radio, where he worked with Bob Collins for several years. He talks about his news career, Chicago and Detroit's corruption, Bob Collins and Wally Phillips stories, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG115.mp3

Doug Cummings: from crime reporter to crime author

Doug Cummings was a TV and radio reporter in Kansas City and in Chicago at WMAQ and WGN Radio after he was a deputy sheriff near Kansas City. He talks about his career, his passion for crime stories, criminals he encountered, crime stories he covered, seeing dead bodies, how he comes up with story ideas and plots, his writing process and how he stays motivated to write, why he left radio and law enforcement, his new book, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG114.mp3

Steve Bertrand: radio rarity

Steve Bertrand has only worked at WGN Radio his entire career (from the mid-1980s), starting as an intern and currently as a news anchor. For a couple of years, he hosted the Meet the Writers podcast for Barnes & Noble, and interviewed all kinds of authors such as Stephen King, Dan Brown, Nora Roberts, Dennis Leary, and Amy Tan; he talks about what Chris Farley was like at Marquette University (they both went there); his experience with the Chicago Bears show and the 1985 Bears; fun times at WGN (he's worked with Roy Leonard, Kathy and Judy, Garry Meier, John Williams, Spike O'Dell, and Jonathan Brandmeier); how news has changed, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG113.mp3

Jordan Bernfield: sports prediction confirmed

Jordan Bernfield, who hosts Cubs Weekly, Preps Plus Chicago, Northwestern football and basketball broadcasts, and does various sports segments and fill-ins on WGN, and who I predicted would do well in the radio biz, does an update about his new on-air career and talks about hard work; how Dave Eanet, Dave Kaplan, Tom Langmyer, and a vocal coach have helped him; how he deals with haters; the difference between producing and being on air; advice for getting on the air; his obsession with the Cubs; playing guitar and cooking; his food photos; teaching a radio play-by-play class at Columbia College, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG112.mp3