[1] Mike Murphy started broadcasting in April 1990 for WLS, a talk radio station in Chicago, hosting a weekly show on Sunday nights called "Fan Talk".
Segments included: The Mike Murphy Show's theme song is sung by Howard Berk.
In June 2009, it was announced that Murphy's program would be dropped from WSCR's lineup later that month to make room for Dan McNeil's "Danny Mac Show.
[4] Mike Murphy returned to radio on WMVP-AM (1000) on Sunday April 23, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the baseball season.
[5][6] On August 30, 2012, a conversation during an episode of the Boers and Bernstein radio show on the Score between Dan Bernstein, Laurence Holmes and Matt Abattacola, revealed that a regular contributor to Murphy's show was fictional.