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Alan Browning WKRC - Where did he go after WKRC, WHIO?

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With John Kiesewetter's posts on Alan Browning in his Top 40 blog and follow ups, where did Alan Browning go after WKRC and WHIO?

Listened to Rap Line for years.
 
I am not sure where Alan Browning went after his brief stint at 1290 WHIO. Retired? Another name from the past, and not on the list is former WCKY Traffic reporter Ted Florco.
 
microbob said:
I am not sure where Alan Browning went after his brief stint at 1290 WHIO. Retired? Another name from the past is and not on the list is former WCKY Traffic reporter Ted Florco.
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Yes - Ted Florco - another stalwart!
 
Alan Browning had a nice late-afternoon show on WKRC in the late 1960's. Later on, he had the "Desperate and Datless" show on WKRC on Friday evenings in the 1980's. His wife, Sue, answered the in-coming telephone calls for that program.

Ted Florco had a great voice for traffic reports or whatever other announcing he was doing. Before WCKY, he was on WZIP in Cincinnati. I think Ted passed away in the past 20 years or so.
 
I had a buddy that listened the that Disparate and Dateless every week. He never missed it and thought he would find the love of his life. Problem is he never found anyone who he loved as much as himself so he is 64 now and still dateless. Some of the calls that came into that show were funny as heck. I used to listen every once in a while in the car and would crack up at some of the things people would say on the air. It was real entertainment.
 
My mom always used to listen to Alan Browning. Some of his shows were weird. He had one show back around 1982 where he invited people to call in and say who they'd most like to hit with a pie. The most common targets of these hypothetical pieings were of course politicians and newscasters, but somebody also called in saying they wanted to throw a pie at Mrs. Olsen from the Folgers coffee commercials, of all people.
 
For a time in his afternoon show, Browning used to feature recordings of prank telephone calls from a man to various places. The caller sounded like Browning, but it was actually someone else. It was interesting to listen to the responses of the person being called and since it was going to a place of business - like a department store - they seemed to try and do all they could to assist the caller who they didn't know was pranking them. I've always remembered on one of these, the prankster called Macy's in Manhattan and said he wanted information about a "Freudian slip". The operator replied, "that would be lingerie....I'll connect you".

I don't recall the pie-in-the-face call-ins, but it does remind of a cute girl where I worked who once said that she always wanted to hit someone in the face with a pie and would also like to be hit in the face with one.
 
The pie-in-the-face call-ins prompted WEBN to do a similar show, where folks called in to say what rock musician they'd most like to hit with a pie. I think Rick Springfield and Ozzy Osbourne got the most votes.
 
On Sacredheartradio.com there's a reference made to Ted Florco doing a recorded narration. It describes him as "the late Ted Florco".
 
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