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Jay Marvin, longtime AM 760 host, recovering after suicide attempt

Jay in 2009.​Update below: In 2009, AM 760 host Jay Marvin suffered a health crisis involving a potentially lethal infection and epic back surgery that laid him up for the better part of a year. As a result, David Sirota took over Marvin's slot that December, with Jay formally retiring from ra ... More >>

Jay Marvin, ex-KHOW and AM-760 host, retires from radio due to continuing health issues

Jay Marvin.​Yesterday, Jay Marvin, a mainstay on local talk radio until he was felled by a horrific health crisis beginning in early 2009, marked his 58th birthday yesterday with a decision: to retire from radio. It's a choice he doesn't much like -- and one that he feels was made for him by ... More >>

AM-760 lives on despite Air America's death

David Sirota is now the face -- and the voice -- of AM-760.​Air America, the liberal radio network, has seemed gravebound plenty of times over the past few years -- and now even the folks there admit the project is dead. But AM-760, a Clear Channel Denver outlet originally seen as Colorado's ... More >>

David Sirota to permanently replace Jay Marvin on AM 760

David Sirota is a fill-in no more.​Jay Marvin has been unable to helm the AM 760 morning show since early March due to a life-threatening health crisis we've documented in this space. The recovery process continues -- but syndicated columnist David Sirota, who's been Marvin's primary fill-in, ... More >>

Jay Marvin on his wife's possible breast cancer and the decision to pass the torch to David Sirota at AM 760

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June, before his epic surgery.​Earlier today, Jay Marvin appeared on the AM 760 program he used to host with David Sirota, who's been named his permanent replacement. And those who missed hearing it may not get another chance to catch him on the ou ... More >>

Accident sets back AM 760's Jay Marvin recovery from epic surgery

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June, before his epic surgery.​If anyone deserves some good news, it's AM 760 host Jay Marvin, who's been to hell and back since earlier this year, when he began experiencing the first in a series of health problems that resulted in an arduous surg ... More >>

Jay Marvin well enough to head home at week's end

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June.​ We've been keeping you abreast of developments regarding an epic surgical procedure undergone by AM 760 host Jay Marvin; the operation, which took place in New Jersey several weeks ago, addressed serious medical issues that have kept him fro ... More >>

Progress and pain for recuperating AM 760 host Jay Marvin

The incision surgeons made into Jay Marvin's back.​The last update from Mary Marvin about the condition of her husband, AM 760 host Jay Marvin, who recently underwent an epic surgical procedure to address serious medical issues that have kept him off the air since March, consisted entirely of ... More >>

Jay Marvin's kindest cut

Jay Marvin in the flesh.​This morning, Mary Marvin sent out an update about her husband, AM 760 morning host Jay Marvin, who underwent an epic surgical procedure two weeks ago to address serious health issues that have kept him off the air since March. Instead of e-mailing a description of how ... More >>

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Natasha Khan.​Improve your Batting average. Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Natasha Kahn of Bat For Lashes. • Q&A with Bob Crawford of the Avett Brothers. • Q&A with Dalton Rasmussen, co-curator of the Rocky Mountain Low comp. • Flier of the Week: Church of the Snake at Rhinocero ... More >>

Jay Marvin battles setbacks after epic surgery

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June.​AM 760 host Jay Marvin came through life-threatening surgery on Monday in New Jersey -- a ten-hour operation during which physicians removed two vertebrae from his back destroyed by an aggressive infection that's kept him off the air since Ma ... More >>

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Photo by Tom MurphyThe Sunn O))) will come out tomorrow....​Getting your weekend off on the right note.... Today in Backbeat Online: • Last night: Sunn O))) at the Bluebird. • Hearsay bits: Van Morrison, Yonder Mountain String Band, Tyler Despres Band, Pictureplane. • Freaky Friday - "P ... More >>

Mary Marvin's surgery-day updates about AM 760's Jay Marvin

Photo by Michael RobertsMary and Jay Marvin at home in June.​Yesterday morning, we shared a note from Mary Marvin, wife of AM 760 host Jay Marvin, who's been off the air since March due to a series of serious medical issues. In it, she described the details of surgery he was to undergo that da ... More >>

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Breathe, Carolina, breathe!​Prepare for the jump to Warped speed. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Warped Tour at Invesco Field at Mile High. • Over the Weekend: Kings of Leon at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Houses at the Meadowlark. • Dialed In: This week's local music ... More >>

Jay Marvin readies for epic surgical procedure

Photo by Michael RobertsA photo of Jay Marvin at home, taken in early June.​In a June interview at his home, AM 760 radio host Jay Marvin talked in detail about a serious illness that's kept him off the airwaves since early March. At that time, Mary Marvin, Jay's wife, said doctors had ordered ... More >>

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The Diamond Boiz.​Diamonds in the rough? Today in Backbeat Online: • Update: Diamond Boiz crew ready to bust through. • Over the weekend: Phish at Red Rocks, 8/02/09. • Flobots check in from the Blasting Room to hype the Bowling Ball. • Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlis ... More >>

Ailing but improving Jay Marvin makes an appearance on AM-760

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin in a photo taken earlier in June. AM 760 morning-personality Jay Marvin has spent months battling a series of serious medical challenges that have kept him off the air -- until yesterday, when he spoke by phone to John Turk, his longtime producer, who's been manni ... More >>

John Turk to fill in for Jay Marvin on AM 760 next week

John Turk. With AM 760 morning host Jay Marvin still battling a serious health crisis and his main fill-in, David Sirota, in China for several weeks and uncertain if he'll be taking to the station's airwaves again upon his return, some listeners have worried that Clear Channel Denver, the outlet's ... More >>

Jay Marvin talks about his health crisis

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin in his Denver home. AM 760 morning talk-show host Jay Marvin has spent the last several months fighting for his life. He's been in and out of the hospital for a variety of serious health concerns since early March, and aside from occasional updates provided by his ... More >>

No guarantee that David Sirota will be returning to AM 760

David Sirota. In today's blog about AM 760 morning-show host Jay Marvin's continuing health crisis, I note that syndicated columnist David Sirota, who's been filling in for Marvin on most days, will be gone for several weeks on a trip to China. When he returns, however, he's not certain if he'll st ... More >>

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Photo by Lori MidsonDo the martinis at Vesta Dipping Grill come with fuses? May we see some I.D.? Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta Dipping Grill gets happy with its Colorado cocktails. • Feast tonight at Feast on the Fax. • Zanzibar Billiards gets ready to break on Larimer. • A sign of the t ... More >>

An update on Jay Marvin's health crisis

Jay Marvin. The serious health issues AM 760 morning-show host Jay Marvin has been battling since late February aren't getting any simpler for doctors to tackle according to Mary Marvin, Jay's wife, who updated David Sirota, his most-frequent fill-in, during an appearance on the station yesterday. ... More >>

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This means Juarez! Bite this. Today in Cafe Society: • Jack-n-Grill's Juarez burger gets a top 50 nod from Food Network magazine. • What's cooking? Events at cooking schools. • Colorado, Italian-style: How the West was undone. • The Recovery Room has recovered! • Veggie Girl: The Melting ... More >>

Mike Rosen, David Sirota debate Barack Obama's first 100 days in KOA/AM-760 simulcast

David Sirota. As every political pundit acknowledges, assessing a new president after his first 100 days in office is artificial and unfair -- but if Barack Obama is embracing the notion (he's holding a primetime news conference tonight), what the hell? Hence, a plan for KOA conservative Mike Rosen ... More >>

David Sirota carries no water on AM 760

David Sirota. Jay Marvin, the morning host for AM 760, Clear Channel Denver's progressive talk outlet, has been out of commission of late, after undergoing gall bladder surgery. He's on the mend and expected to be back at the microphone next Monday. In the meantime, however, his most frequent fill- ... More >>

Jay Marvin's anti-Mark Udall rant makes the rounds

Jay Marvin was once the fieriest of radio talk-show hosts, as is made clear in our 1998 feature article, "Double Trouble." By the time of a 2007 Message column, "Progress?," which profiled him in the context of his current station, AM 760, he'd mellowed considerably. But the combative Marvin resur ... More >>

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