He was paired with Dan Jiggetts at the start and they put on an incredibly entertaining midday show for several years before North decided he was the biggest star at the station and forced his way into other dayparts. He made a ton of money, but he was never as good with any other partners as he was with Jiggs.

He was the polar opposite of the "smart fans station" concept they have settled on recently, but far more entertaining and actually much more informative because they would ask difficult questions of team spokespeople and were not afraid to disagree with callers, guests, and other hosts during transition.

It was the golden age of the score and for many reasons the station will never reach that level ever again.

He was the most important figure in the Score's early years, but eventually decided to go solo and his show went heavy into politics and lame segments like the Real Estate Game where he would list a home's description and callers competed to guess the listing price. Signed a megadeal for $7.5m over five years, but when that expired, refused to sign a new deal for $800k a year, which I'm sure he regrets.

I always liked him.

He did a dogshit morning show that lost to Mike & Mike and wouldn't accept a new contract that still would have paid him high 6s. He was a tragedy of being a dumbass who couldn't tell success from greatness.

He was a tragedy of being a dumbass who couldn't tell success from greatness.

North was responsible for the rise and the fall of The Score.

He really leaned hard into trying to be like Mancow.

started to believe his own bullshit.

He was a populist and embodied the station's original mission to be the voice of the fan. People loved and hated him. He held management more accountable than any media member ever has in this city. His popularity created an arrogance that the station only existed because of him.

He was a tragedy of being a dumbass who couldn't tell success from greatness.

He held management more accountable than any media member ever has in this city.

I like that phrase and I will use it in the future in real life without giving you attribution.

That's what stands out to me (aside from the malaprops and mispronunciations). He would get into it with Ditka, Ozzie, Hub, and basically anyone. No one confronts guests anymore, which I guess is understandable as they won't come on again. Jesse Rogers deserves a lot of credit for producing in those days.

I also think at some point he stopped being the authentic Mike North, and started playing the character Mike North.

There is no doubt. I know several of his friends and family members who said that he definitely changed.

He started to become greedy, using the station as his own patronage office and elevating his wife to an agent. He became contemptible.

He was the biggest star at the station. And it was because there was nothing else like it at the time. The Jiggetts pairing was nothing special. See Monsters and Money in the Morning.

I like that phrase and I will use it in the future in real life without giving you attribution.

That TV show was a decade after North hit his peak. Their radio show was great and neither matched the same success after the breakup. They played well off of each other. I still do not understand why they had to breakup McNeil and Boers when North wanted to go solo.

But he bought diapers and formula for out-of-work producers!!

Bernstein and Jiggs....appointment radio. This is the event that set in motion B and B which was quite popular and fun...until it wasn't.

I thought it was Danny Mac and Jiggs whose show lasted a nanosecond. Maybe Bernstein also had a stint before B&B?

It was, sorry I was trying to be sarcastic about what would have happened if The Heavy Fuel Crew was NOT broken up.

Appreciate the score history lesson folks. Did other cohosts hate Murphy as much as they lead on? Mac and Boers would always rip on him. You still hear hosts ripping him on occasion now a days. Wish I could find audio of him calling Walter Payton "Wally".

He did a dogshit morning show that lost to Mike & Mike and wouldn't accept a new contract that still would have paid him high 6s. He was a tragedy of being a dumbass who couldn't tell success from greatness.