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One of St. Louis' most recognizable people, JC Corcoran is a successful radio and television personality, columnist, author and father. JC arrived in the Gateway City in 1984, and things haven't quite been the same since.
It's hard to name a celebrity JC hasn't interviewed, a topic to which he hasn't added his unique perspective or a charity that hasn't benefited from exposure on his show. Avid listeners recall "The Showgram's" live broadcasts from the annual Cubs-Cards weekends in Chicago (including the first-ever night game at Wrigley Field), from Moscow during the 1990 May Day festivities, and from locations like Phoenix, The Bahamas, Jamaica, Hawaii, Disney World in Orlando, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Mexico, as well as from the 1985 World Series games in Kansas City, the 1987 World Series in Minneapolis and the 2006 World Series in Detroit. In keeping with his strong music presence, JC also has broadcast memorable shows from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the Grammys in New York and Hollywood and the famed Abbey Road Studios in London.
For fourteen years JC Corcoran was a familiar face on local TV, having served as Entertainment Editor at KSDK (NBC) from 1985 to 1991, and for KMOV (CBS) from 1992 to 1999. During that period, JC traveled to show business capitols like Los Angeles and New York over three hundred times to screen new motion pictures and interview the industry's hottest actors, actresses and directors. Among Corcoran's more memorable conversations were with Harrison Ford, Oprah, Bill Murray, Madonna, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Michael J. Fox, Tom Hanks, Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kim Basinger, George Clooney, John Goodman, Steven Spielberg and Jimmy Stewart. JC also covered the concert and comedy scene, presenting one-on-one interviews with Jay Leno, David Letterman, Bill Maher, George Carlin, Dana Carvey, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman and Phil Collins. In 2007 and 2008 JC provided nightly commentary pieces entitled "What's On My Mind" on the FOX2 (KTVI) News at Five and Nine. In 1990 Corcoran won an Emmy for his television special, "JC Went to Cardinal Spring Training and All We Got Was This Lousy TV Show." And in 1989 he was a featured guest on a spirited edition of the Sally Jessy Raphael Show that dealt with music censorship. Corcoran's sharp interviewing style has been on display for a quarter century opposite familiar news and sports personalities like Dan Rather, Keith Olberman, Andy Rooney, Mickey Mantle, Albert Pujols, Brett Hull, Marshall Faulk, Tim Russert, Terry Bradshaw and Bob Costas, a frequent guest on the show.
But on any typical morning you're just as likely to hear JC talking about what's happening in St. Louis. It was during his stint at KLOU in 2001 that he was honored at the St. Louis "Air Awards" with the prestigious March of Dimes "Lifetime Achievement Award," and he still maintains a close relationship with the Salvation Army, having raised over a quarter-million dollars and over fifty tons of food via the "Food and Cash Salvation Bash" and the "Cans Film Festival." In 2008 Corcoran was named Media Person of the Year by the St. Louis Restaurant Association. JC's books, "Twenty Years of JC...The Man, The Legend, The Lawsuit" and "Real Life Stories of JC and The Breakfast Club or Twenty Minutes in the Dark with Madonna" have been area best-sellers for Virginia Publishing. In 1998, JC learned his annual home-opener baseball radio special had been added to the archives of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. In 1995 and again in 2009 he had the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a St. Louis Cardinal game at Busch Stadium.
JC lives in St. Louis county with his wife, Clarissa, their new baby daughter, Francesca, two cats, Victor and Louie, four satellite DVRs and a basement full of radio and TV-related junk he promises he's going to organize someday. Corcoran pitched in the Men’s St. Louis Senior Baseball League and earned his first complete-game win in thirty-seven years in August of 2008. Young girls have been seen entering and exiting JC's house at all hours, most notably his two daughters, Addison, 17, and Whitney, 15.
Early in 2010, Corcoran launched his revamped website, jcontheline.com, which features “The Daily Dose,” a ten-minute video blog, as well as an extensive archive of St. Louis radio and television history. After only five months the site cracked the 100,000 page-view mark.
JC Corcoran and Trish Gazall can be heard from noon to three each weekday onThe Big 550 KTRS.
