Bill Whittington

Terry and I stayed in touch a lot.

And we would either email or call around Christmas, just sent him an email, how you doing?

No response, not totally unusual.

And then Friday morning, this past Friday around 9.30, I sent him a text, hey, how you doing?

And his son Joe called me and said, my dad's in hospice.

Hospice?

You know, I didn't expect that.

And he goes, we don't expect you to last much longer.

And at 1.30, he called me and said he had passed.

But

He was the scorer.

I don't think any of us, you know, the station would be as powerful as it is today without Terry Bores.

It's interesting to listen to all the people who have weighed in since his passing, and it gives you the indication of how much he meant beyond the station itself and really not just even in Chicago, but his impact was everywhere, and it's still...

resounds in people who never even met the man, right?

Right.

I mean, there's a radio host in Nashville, Chris Childers, who's from the Chicago area.

He put out like 150, 200 words on why he's in the business because of Terry.

And then electronic media, Tony Kornheiser, you know, from ESPN said Terry kind of set the movement of print journalists moving over to TV and radio because of Terry Boers.

Yeah, the audience.

And Layla, you know, remember we had a celebration at real time and you were part of that and saw the interaction with you and him.