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Brady Bunch icon Maureen McCormack (Marcia Brady) talks with Chris & Janeen about her rough days of teen stardom and her new book Here's A Story. Click here to listen!
Hollywood screen legend Robert Wagner was a great interview when he was on with Chris & Janeen
Hear part 1 by clicking here!
Hear part 2 here!
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conductor Erich Kunzel tells Chris & Janeen about his Music Hall ghost!
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Chris & Janeen emceed the 33rd annual Kindervelt Gala for Children's Hospital. The Division of Asthma Research benefitted from this year's event. Thanks to the 1,100 Kindervelt members for their hard work!
How convienient that Janeen "forgot" her cash, so as usual the "Bank Of Chris" comes through:
Chris makes friends with the Split The Pot winner:
photos by Susan Deye
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Chris & Janeen (Dr. McDreamy & Meredith -- yeah, right) recently emceed the Halloween "Boo Bash" fundraiser for the new Bethsda North Breast Center programs:
Who invited the radio cosultant:
Chris (on harmonica) & Janeen (on tambourine) as they jam with Band Of Brothers OMPG at the Boo Bash--
and, no, they're not doing one of their Bengal songs:
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Janeen tells actor Robert Vaughn (left) that she thought he was dead! Click here.
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Chris & Janeen with Little River Band at Ft. Thomas Music & Merchants:
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For the past several football seasons, Chris & Janeen have been recording weekly Bengal songs. They're done tongue-in-cheek, which is probably why they sound so funky/bad. The songs are not meant to be serious, just meant to spur the team on to victory.
Yeah, how's that been working out so far?
Week 1 "Hey Hey They're The Bengals!"
Week 2 "Beat The Titans Up"
Week 3 "Team From NYC"
Week 4 "Cleveland Browns"
Week 5 "Marvin, Don't Let Your Bengals Get Beat By The Cowboys"
Week 6 "Bengals and the Jets"
Week 7 "Another Bengals Game"
Week 8 "Bengals Mash"
Week 9 "Jacksonville!"
Week 10 "ONE"
Week 11 "7 More To PLay"
Week 12 "Puttin Up With Fitz"
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CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer wonders if being on with Chris & Janeen was a good idea. Click here for an excerpt:
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Christmas in the air! The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes stop by the studio to kick things into high gear...
George Foster and Pete Rose of the Big Red Machine!
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During Kings Island's Reunion Weekend, Janeen and actress Carmen Electra -- both having worked in shows at the park -- were enshrined in the first King's Island Walk Of Fame:
Janeen, Carmen and former employee Dennis Spiegel place their hands in cement:
Enquirer photo
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Married with Microphones
Chris O'Brien and Janeen Coyle
103.5 WGRR Cincinnati
Weekdays 5-9am
The WGRR morning team of Chris O’Brien and Janeen Coyle have been married for more than 20 years, and have worked together in some capacity for longer than that!
Chris & Janeen met while both worked at Cincinnati’s WKRQ in 1979. They married 6 years later.
Chris began in radio while a teen in his native South Carolina, working in the south before being offered a job in Cleveland while in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chris moved from Cleveland to Cincinnati in 1974. Except for doing afternoons at Chicago’s WMET 1977-78, Chris was with WKRQ for nearly 13 years. He was named Best Radio Voice by Cincinnati Magazine and a Billboard Personality of the year nominee. Chris joined WGRR in 1991. (Little known fact: Chris was the first announcer for the Jerry Springer Show when it began – yikes!) Chris is also an honorary Kentucky Colonel, son!
Janeen joined WKRQ in 1979 while attending the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory Of Music. She began with overnights, worked middays, and later moved to afternoon drive where she remained until 1988. From there Janeen did talk radio, hosting the very popular Chick Talk show. Janeen co-hosted morning drive with on WKRC until she was contacted about joining Chris in 1995 and forming the unique husband & wife team. The two even did a daily live morning “watercooler” segment, simulcast on Cincinnati’s WCPO-TV for four years.
Chris & Janeen are very involved in the community, appearing at fundraising events and supporting the Arthritis Foundation, SPCA, Diabetes Association, Breast Cancer Awareness (Chris's mom is a survivor), Feed The Children, Cincinnati Association for the Blind, and Kindervelt, among others in the tri-state area.
Their son, Dylan, who attends the University of Cincinnati, has been a part of their show since he was born! And not to be forgotten, Frank-The-Pug, also noses his way in!