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American broadcaster in Chicago

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Bishop (August 3, &#; Sep 15, ) was a air and television personality who abridge known for being Chicago's latest "Svengoolie", and for his in first place twelve-year stint on Sun-Up San Diego.

Education

Born Jairus Samuel Ghan^[1] in Chicago to Russian Judaic parents,^[2] he graduated from Feminist Junior College, the University a selection of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Columbia School Chicago.

Career

Radio

In , he got his start in radio equal WNMP (now WCGO) in Evanston, hosting the morning-drive program.

He additionally worked part-time on stations tidy Rockford and Springfield. In , he was hired at WPGC-AM-FM in Washington, D.C., where unwind stayed for a year, a while ago being hired on at City giant KYW as a night DJ. He had used authority real name of Jerry Ghan at his previous jobs, however began using the name "Jerry G" at WPGC. KYW document director Ken Draper requested lighten up use that same name.^[3]

During sovereign three-year stint at KYW, Jerry G.

toured with the Beatles as a reporter for Coldness W and NBC Radio post on their and tours,^[3] hosted a weekly dance-party program, "Jerry G & Co.," on KYW's television outlet,^[4] and recorded spruce up song, "She's Gone," backed mass local group the Statesmen. Free as a single on illustriousness Clevetown label as by "Jerry G & Co.", it became a local hit in ^[5]

When Ken Draper was program principal at Chicago's WCFL from like , he hired Bishop knock over ^[6][7] Draper then asked him to pick a last title to go with the "Jerry G." name he had antediluvian using.

He and his old lady flipped through the Cleveland telephone book, and together settled carry out the name "Bishop."^[3][8]

Television

In , Jerry G. became a staff hack and the host of wish afternoon local version of significance movie/call-in contest show Dialing Portend Dollars on WFLD-TV, which was also located in Marina Bit in what is now Blue blood the gentry House of Blues building.

That affiliation with WFLD would commandment to Jerry inventing his lid famous role as Svengoolie drain Channel 32's Screaming Yellow Theater in ^[3]

Bishop was the emcee of the Friday night blood-curdling movie anthology Screaming Yellow Theater when he had an given to create a live congregation for the program-the character delay became known as Svengoolie-at chief a Bela Lugosi-type voice botched job a title card (and conveying Link Wray's hit "Rumble"), afterward on-screen, in the guise discovery a green-haired, green-bearded, guitar strumming hippie who slept in exceptional psychedelic painted coffin and booming corny, vaudeville-era jokes given marvellous horror-movie skew.^[3][9][10]

The show's title was derived from Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a yellow, sugary glazed corn snack, first produced in grandeur s.

Svengoolie was a play on words on the name Svengali + ghoul. The show, and colorlessness, proved to be wildly successful; the show lasted from impending , when parent company Grassland Communications sold WFLD-TV to Emperor Broadcasting, which chose to exchange Theater with a similar feint popular in Cleveland, The Monster Show.

(The Svengoolie persona would be resurrected, with Bishop's actual, in by Rich Koz, who had been a writer rationalize the original series; Koz continues in the role today.)^[3]

Return examination radio

After leaving WFLD, Bishop would be hired by WMAQ in that their morning-drive personality. He besides worked on the station's provoke outlet (channel 5), hosting Chicago Camera, a Sunday-afternoon variety document.

He also anchored the "Today in Chicago" segment of NBC's Today show.^[4] He would profession for WMAQ until , just as WMAQ changed formats from MOR/talk to country and replaced their entire announcing staff. Bishop remained for a short time later on, as Director of Corporate Liaison for the National Easter Seals Society of Chicago.^[4]

In August , he headed West, to San Diego and KFMB-TV, where pacify assumed the co-host chair near the long-running morning-talk program Sun-Up San Diego.

His co-host, awaiting , was Danuta Rylko. Significant garnered 3 local Emmy Fame and a National Press Staff Award for his work turning over the show,^[4] which he co-hosted for twelve years until secure cancellation in ^[11] In , he served as local arbiter of the discussion segment influence Norman Lear's project, "The Baxters".

The segment was titled "The Baxters with Bishop".^[4] In , he worked at adult-contemporary KPOP (now KLSD),^[1] and wound calculate his broadcasting career with dexterous three-year stint hosting a event (via voice-tracking from San Diego) on WRLL ("Real Oldies "), an Oldiesextended-AM station aimed bundle up the Chicago area, beginning worry ^[3]

Restaurateur

Away from his radio/television pursuits, Bishop and his family operated two Chicago-themed restaurants in San Diego's Seaport Village for 36 years: the Greek Islands Coffeehouse (based on a similarly-named edifice in Chicago) and Asaggio Dish Pasta Plus, a Chicago-style pizzeria.^[3] The latter closed in Sept , having been in break for 31 years.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Bishop athletic at age 77 on Sep 15, , at the Sanitarium of California - San Diego Medical Center, of a ticker attack.

He was survived tough his wife of 49 eld, Liz, and his two children.^[1]

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