Mike Murphy (sports radio personality)


Mike Murphy is an American sports radio personality, who hosted The Mike Murphy Show on Chicago's Sports Radio 670 The Score. His last show aired on June 12, 2009. He currently hosts a show on WMVP-AM every Saturday from 9am-12pm with Fred Huebner.
Mike "Mad Bugler" Murphy was a founding member of the Left Field Bleacher Bums, a group of dedicated Chicago Cubs fans who sat in the left field bleachers of Wrigley Field and rallied the team in the late 1960s and 70s.

Career

Mike Murphy started broadcasting in April 1990 for WLS, a talk radio station in Chicago, hosting a weekly show on Sunday nights called "Fan Talk". Murph would host this show for 18 months, before he was approached by WXRT, a Chicago rock radio station, which was founding a new sports talk radio station, The Score. Murph originally hosted a weekend show on WSCR, but eventually moved to weekdays, where he hosted "The Mike Murphy Show". He currently hosts a show on Saturdays on WMVP-AM.

''The Mike Murphy Show''

The Mike Murphy Show aired on Sports Radio 670 The Score. Segments included:
The Mike Murphy Show's theme song is sung by Howard Berk.
In June 2009, it was announced that Murphy's program would be dropped from WSCR's lineup later that month to make room for Dan McNeil's "Danny Mac Show." It was subsequently disclosed that he remained off the air since then, and that his contract expired in May, 2010.
In June 2010, Murphy sued WSCR's ownership, CBS Radio, over a right of first refusal clause in their contract that prevented him from seeking employment within 50 miles of the station for 90 days before and 6 months after terminating employment with CBS Radio, unless he gave CBS the right to match the offer.
Mike Murphy returned to radio on WMVP-AM on Sunday April 23, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the baseball season. His co-hosts the show with Fred Huebner, whom he previously co-hosted with at WSCR.
On August 30, 2012, a conversation during an episode of the Boers and Bernstein radio show on the Score between Dan Bernstein, Laurence Holmes and Matt Abattacola, revealed that a regular contributor to Murphy's show was fictional. During many of Murphy's shows, Murphy would read emails he said were from a long time listener named Kenny Owens. However, Kenny Owens was a fictional character created by Murphy, whose emails were sent from Murphy's wife's email address, according to Abattacola. Upon finding this out, Rock Mamola, a member of Murphy's production staff at the time, called in using the moniker 'Kenny Owens' and outed Murphy's fabrication.