Marvin Jay Cohen, better known by his broadcast name of Jay Marvin is a retired
American
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liberal
radio
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talk show
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host and writer.
Marvin began his radio career in 1971 as a country music DJ at KWMC in Del Rio, Texas.
After that, he worked at various stations including WWOD Lynchburg, Virginia, K102 FM El Paso, Texas, WHBQ in Memphis, WJEZ and WJJD Chicago, Illinois,
and KKAT Salt Lake City, Utah, and Top 40 station
KIXZ
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in Amarillo, Texas. He switched to talk radio in the late 1980s starting at WTKN St. Petersburg, Florida and then moved to
WFLA in Tampa. From there, he moved to
WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
WLS Chicago (twice), and
KHOW and
KKZN in Denver, Colorado. He has also guest hosted nationally for
Ed Schultz
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He was the host of '' The Ed Show'', a weekday news talk program on MSNBC fro ...
,
Jerry Springer
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, and
Alan Colmes
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.
Marvin has interviewed many famous guests on his show, including
Howard Dean
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,
John Kerry
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,
Jimmy Carter
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, and
Mike Gravel
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, as well as other guests and local Colorado politicians including
Mark Udall
Mark Emery Udall ( ; born July 18, 1950) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, repres ...
,
Bill Ritter,
Ed Perlmutter
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, and
Diana DeGette
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.
In September 2010, Marvin announced his retirement from radio.
Bibliography
* ''Punk Blood'', 1998 ()
* ''The White Trash Chronicles'', 2001 ()
References
External links
Jay Marvin's pageon Denver's Progressive Talk Channel (760 AM)
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American alternative journalists
American television talk show hosts
People with bipolar disorder
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Radio personalities from Denver
Radio personalities from Tampa, Florida