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Michael Moran McKenna (born 29 June 1965) is an Irish-American radio news anchor and host and television actor. He has announced over 2,000 newscasts on WCEV radio 1450AM (Chicago) since August 2000 as well programming :30 minute and :60 minute music segments and writing, producing and hosting "Radio Tales" which aired from Dec 2008 to April 2009. He has appeared on WYCC television as Italian Prince Machiavelli and as a modern day version of this same Prince for a program called Great Books: Power and Passion which aired on WYCC-TV Thursday Feb 24 and Sunday Feb 27th 2005. He also produced WYCC station IDs featruing the soon to be World Champion Chicago White Sox in the Spring of 2005. These IDs aired most of 2005 and again in 2006. He has written one as yet to be published novel entited The Great Plains which he describes as: What happens when an impoverished, humble clerk and a smooth, handsome pool sharp cross paths because of two girls, a simple factory worker and a beautiful heiress?

Early Life

McKenna was born the fifth child of Frank and Anne (nee Moran) McKenna in Oak Lawn, Illinois. He lived the first 9 years of his life in a Chicago neighborhood known locally as Auburn Gresham and known parochially as Little Flower parish. McKenna family moved to leafy Evergreen Park in 1974 where Michael began to attend Queen of Martyrs schhol. He graduated in 1979 and began caddying at local golf course, Beverly Country Club to earn money for high school. In Fall of 1979 he began attending Marist High School. In 1983, McKenna was awarded an Evans Scholarship and was advised to attend Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI on it. McKenna graduated with a degree in Broadcast Communication in 1987.

Career

McKenna postponed his broadcasting career to attend to family matters for the first major segment of his life from age 24 to 34.

McKenna began working for WCEV radio in Fall of 2000. He began working with WYCC television on June 19th of 2001.