Veteran Chicago radio and TV personality Jerry G. Bishop was working in the announce booth one Friday night in 1970 at Chicago's WFLD on the horror movie show "Screaming Yellow Theater" when he started doing a Count Dracula voice. Before long, he developed it into a character named "Svengoolie," who soon became the show's on-camera host. "Screaming Yellow Theater" ran until 1974, when the new owners of the station fired him for "The Ghoul" from Cleveland. When Mr. Bishop moved to San Diego for more radio and TV work and running a pizzeria, his assistant Rich Koz brought back the character as "Son of Svengoolie" when WFLD went through another ownership change (and then got fired when Rupert Murdoch bought the station to start Fox)--when WCIU became a general audience indie in the 90s, Koz returned as "Svengoolie" and is there to this day, with owner Weigel Broadcasting's MeTV digital subchannel net showing him nationally now on Saturdays, but it all started with Mr. Bishop:
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