St. Louis Radio: J.C. Corcoran Departing For Houston

JC Corcoran

After almost 30 years and not quite as many radio stations, radio personality legend J.C. Corcoran is leaving St. Louis for the Lone Star State.

According to Joe Holleman at stltoday.com, on March 21, Corcoran will join Clear Channel's KKRW “The Arrow,” Houston’s classic-rock station, as host of the morning-drive show, 5:30 to 10 a.m., station officials said.

In addition to The Arrow Morning Show, Corcoran will be a contributor to Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Houston’s talk stations, KTRH and KPRC.

Never one to shy away from controversy or confrontation, Corcoran worked at — and often got fired from — St. Louis’ most prominent radio stations.

An unofficial count includes KSHE, KSD (twice), KIHT, KLOU, KTRS, KYKY and KMOX.

“People started trying to run me out of town two weeks after I got here back in 1984.” Corcoran, 57, said. “So I consider it a moral victory that it took them 29 years to do it.”

But along with generating headlines through confrontations with bosses and listeners, Corcoran led a revolution in St. Louis radio.

When he started at KSHE in 1984, Corcoran brought with him the trend of music jocks commenting on politics and news events, something which had begun to grow nationwide in the early 1980s.

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