Bonnie's Blog

I’m like a stain on the kitchen wall in the WCKG office. I was thrown into this job (kinda) and I haven’t left and no one has cleaned me off or removed me from the phone that I answer for Stan and Terry. I started out here in the South Suburbs, graduated from HF, and actually was a newscaster for my high school’s radio station (well substitute newscaster, but who cares?) After I appeared in the movie “Hoosiers” as one of the cheerleaders on the basketball team, I became a Hoosier and spent 4 years in Bloomington. I went to 1 football game, accidentally sat on the opposing teams side (stupidly bought the tickets from an ad in the paper) and maybe attended 3 basketball games in 4 years. With a Telecommunications major and Business and Spanish minors under my belt, I tried my luck and moved to the City of Angels. Since all I did as a kid was watch TV, I thought perhaps maybe that’s what my calling was, hey, I wrote an episode of “Mad About You” for my intensive writing class and got an “A”. I spent 6 plus years plugging away in the heartless, carbo-free industry that makes our country's best and worst television shows and films. I did everything; TV production, film, I worked for MTV, CBS, A&E “Biography”, a documentary about boobs, HBO’s “Project Greenlight”, and finally a cool job for a product placement agency. I also write for USA Today’s travel section and some other random websites.

Then in 2002, I had a bad day, and decided to move back to Chicago (to the great disappointment of my family). Well, actually I won tickets in an auction for a Cub game and decided that I would make a cross-country trip to attend the game and then decided to move here while I was at it.

With no real plan in mind, seriously I had no idea what I was going to do, I realized that I loved listening to radio and calling into radio shows, so I interned for the Kevin Matthews Show, stayed long enough, worked for free for long enough and ended up producing it. If you were a listener, my fights with Jim Shorts were legendary and obviously one of us had to go.

I stayed and produced the Pete McMurray Show, where I was proposed to on the scoreboard at the Cell by Mender. We almost made it legal in Vegas, but I could see the future (he couldn’t) and got cold feet. Then as luck would have it here I am producing the Stan and Terry Show. Who says you can’t work with your ex?

Same station, same time (well, with some variations), different voices, different bosses, but still here I am, like a stain on the wall, picking up the phone and talking to you… the listeners.

MY FAVORITES:
Flavor: Chocolate
Team: Cubs (duh)
TV: The Shield, The Office
Movies: Broadcast News, Quiz Show, Hotel Rwanda

Top 3 Guys I’d do: George Clooney, Vince Vaughn, Adrien Brody