1. Steven Robert Dahl was born on November 20,1954 and is an American radio personality.
46 Facts About Steve Dahl
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Steve Dahl is the owner and operator of the Steve Dahl Network, a subscription-based podcasting network.
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Steve Dahl served as a columnist for the Chicago Tribune in their Live section as the resident "vice advisor" until November 2010.
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Steve Dahl is considered an influential shock jock in talk radio.
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Steve Dahl is an occasional actor, and has appeared in films such as Grandview, USA, Outing Riley and I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.
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Steve Dahl is the son of Roger and Carol Dahl, an electronics parts manufacturer's representative and a homemaker.
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Steve Dahl was told by radio executives that he'd never make it in radio because his voice was too high.
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At one point, Steve Dahl was so discouraged that he quit for about six months and attempted to pursue a career as a recording engineer.
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Steve Dahl later admitted to stalking her by sleeping in his Subaru outside her house.
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In 1976, Steve Dahl's ex-wife told him about an opening for a morning show in Detroit, Michigan on WABX.
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Steve Dahl managed to secure the job, despite the fact that he did not think he was good enough for it.
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At WABX, Steve Dahl learned as much as he could about what constituted "good radio" and began experimenting with his content.
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Steve Dahl's popularity increased to the point that he achieved a 7.2 market share.
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In 1978, after Janet accepted his marriage proposal, Steve Dahl left Detroit for WDAI in Chicago.
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Dahl began at WDAI Chicago on February 23,1978, with his solo Steve Dahl's Rude Awakening show, but it never achieved solid ratings despite media attention.
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In March 1979, after a few months without a job, Steve Dahl was hired to do a morning show at WLUP where he met overnight DJ Garry Meier.
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Steve Dahl effectively forced Meier to use his actual name by calling him "Garry" on-air accidentally.
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However, in February 1981, WLUP fired Steve Dahl, citing "continued assaults on community standards".
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Steve Dahl made on-the-air prank phone calls to the "Islamic Fried Chicken", ordering buckets of chicken for the hostages in the US embassy, for which the State Department later reprimanded him.
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Steve Dahl parodied the John Wayne Gacy murders with his song "Another Kid in the Crawl".
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Steve Dahl and Meier won a local Emmy award for a television special they did in 1981 called, Greetings from Graceland, which was a comedy spoof on the tourist shrine and featured Elvis Presley's "Uncle Vester" selling Elvis cookbooks from the guardhouse.
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Steve Dahl decided to get a vasectomy in March 1989, which was performed live on the air at a urologist's office in Indiana.
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Steve Dahl ended up on WCKG, broadcasting an afternoon show on that station.
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Steve Dahl eventually teamed up with Buzz Kilman, who was Dahl's newsman starting in 1980 on WLUP, and the show was available as a podcast at Dahl's website and streamed live on WCKG's website.
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In 2007, Steve Dahl was named one of the '100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts' by Talkers Magazine.
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On Friday, August 18,2006, Steve Dahl was doing a remote broadcast of his show at Oak Street Beachstro, a restaurant on Chicago's Oak Street Beach.
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Steve Dahl appeared briefly on Dahl's show that same day.
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Steve Dahl announced on October 29,2007, that he would move to mornings at WJMK on November 5,2007, as WCKG changed formats.
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Steve Dahl was the only live personality at the Jack FM outlet as the rest of the station was pre-programmed and run by computer.
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Criminal suspect Drew Peterson and his lawyer, Joel Brodsky, called in to Steve Dahl's show on January 23,2008.
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Steve Dahl had been lampooning Peterson since the start of the former police officer's notoriety.
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On December 5,2008, Steve Dahl announced the end of his show on Jack FM due to low ratings.
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On October 7,2014, media blogger Robert Feder reported that Steve Dahl would be returning to terrestrial radio on WLS AM 890.
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Under the agreement, Cumulus would provide financial, technical and marketing support, while Steve Dahl would continue to host a separate, 90-minute daily podcast for his paid subscribers.
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Steve Dahl's show included an appearance by Ron Magers and a phone interview with Bob Odenkirk.
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In October 2018, Steve Dahl confirmed to Feder by email that he was leaving WLS after four years in December 2018, in advance of the major weekday lineup shakeup the station announced would take place in early 2019.
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Steve Dahl stated that he intended to continue to produce his daily podcasts in partnership with WLS's owner Cumulus Media.
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On September 8,2009, Steve Dahl began doing daily podcasts from a studio in the basement of his home.
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At the time, Steve Dahl was still under contract with CBS, who had agreed in July 2009 to partner with him to produce a daily, hour long podcast complete with a few commercials.
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In 2007, backed by Des Moines, Iowa band The Nadas, Steve Dahl embarked on a tour of Chicago-area concert venues.
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Steve Dahl had minor roles in the films Grandview, USA, Outing Riley and I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.
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Steve Dahl has served on the board of trustees at Columbia College Chicago.
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Steve Dahl has battled alcoholism throughout his adult life, which he has alluded to a number of times.
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Steve Dahl has been sober since 1995, the day after a drinking bout at the White Sox home opener, achieving it cold turkey.
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Also in 1999, Steve Dahl admitted secretly recording conversations among staffers at WCKG because he suspected they were talking about him behind his back.
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In snippets Dahl has played on his afternoon show, two station employees can be heard mocking him as "Steve Dull" and ridiculing his show.