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Bobby Skafish
Bobby Skafish is a longtime radio personality in the Chicago area.
Career.
- 1976-1983 WXRT
- 1983-1993 WLUP
- 1993-1994 WKQX
- 1994-2006 WXRT
- 2007-2015 WDRV
Background.
Bobby Skafish who grew up in Hammond, Indiana, majored in Telecommunications at Indiana University and worked at WIUS, now WIUX, the college radio station.
In January 2007, Bobby Skafish launched an internet radio station, , broadcast by Live365.
Skafish
Skafish is a Chicago punk band, fronted by Jim Skafish, cousin of Chicago area DJ Bobby Skafish. The band was formed in 1976 and had their first performance that November.
In 1977, "Billboard" magazine printed a review of the band's performance as the opening act for Sha Na Na at Chicago's Arie Crown Theater. Finding Skafish to be a "peculiar appetizer for the straight, conservative crowd" that Sha Na Na attracted, the reviewer stated that "[l]arge numbers retreated to the lobby