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Best Morning Show in Philly?

Now: Imus.

Not many morning shows around to pick from.
 
Oh geez, has to be Michaela Majoun on 'XPN. All the rest are banal tripe spewing out the standard scripted platitudes.
 
How about The Charlie Tuna Morning Show, now on HyLitRadio.com.

Custom, produced in Philadelphia at HyLitRadio Technologies, daily. I'm up at 3am preping, editing, preping, every, dang, dong, day. Literally. I'm asleap at 7pm nightly. But the numbers are through the roof. So, I guess I'm a gonna keep on keepin it on. Oy vey.

Hey, I still have all the Hy Lit voice tracks from when Hy VT'd HyLitRadio. Hy & I woke up at 4:30am daily to produce them.

Allot of hard work went into HyLitRadio for the last, almost 8 years now. Sure wish Hy was around to see this, and the seeds of his work.

I want to give a big Thank You to Radio Legend Charlie Tuna for helping me continue Philladelphia's legacy broadcasting on HyLitRadio.com

Sample: http://hylitradio.com/HyLitRadio_Phillies_HyLit_VT.mp3
 
For such a major market, Philly has never really had a tradition of great local morning shows. The biggest show the city has ever known was based in New York. (Stern)

Preston and Steve must be the heirs apparent, but they're borderline unlistenable.
 
Best ever morning show was Bob Menefee on WCAU. Hands down.
 
FredLeonard said:
Best ever morning show was Bob Menefee on WCAU. Hands down.
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That was way before my time, so I'll have to take your word for it. I think the conversation is about modern type shows, however.
 
ProducerGuy said:
FredLeonard said:
Best ever morning show was Bob Menefee on WCAU. Hands down.
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That was way before my time, so I'll have to take your word for it. I think the conversation is about modern type shows, however.
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Sorry, but the conversation was originally about current morning shows. You introduced "has ever known" into the discussion. "Modern" is generally defined as anything after the "golden age" of old time network radio.

Best Pennsylvania has ever known: Rege Cordic, KDKA.
Best the Mid-Atlantic Region has ever known: The Joy Boys, WRC (Ed Walker and Willard Scott).
Best the Big Apple has ever known: Rayburn/Klavan and Finch, WNEW; Arthur Godfrey, WABC
 
FredLeonard said:
ProducerGuy said:
FredLeonard said:
Best ever morning show was Bob Menefee on WCAU. Hands down.
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That was way before my time, so I'll have to take your word for it. I think the conversation is about modern type shows, however.
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Sorry, but the conversation was originally about current morning shows. You introduced "has ever known" into the discussion. "Modern" is generally defined as anything after the "golden age" of old time network radio.

Best Pennsylvania has ever known: Rege Cordic, KDKA.
Best the Mid-Atlantic Region has ever known: The Joy Boys, WRC (Ed Walker and Willard Scott).
Best the Big Apple has ever known: Rayburn/Klavan and Finch, WNEW; Arthur Godfrey, WABC
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And I said "biggest", not "best". I think it's hard to deny that Howard was HUGE in Philly. "Best" is subjective.
 
ProducerGuy said:
And I said "biggest", not "best". I think it's hard to deny that Howard was HUGE in Philly. "Best" is subjective.
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Well, the topic is "best." And it's not like "subjective" assessments are unheard of on this board. But OK, I'll play.

By "biggest," I assume you mean cume. OK, I'll play. Probably either Jim O'Brien or Joe McCauley. Not likely anybody could get cume as big after the mid-60s. KYW took a big chunk of the audience away from morning shows. Opening up FM fragmented the audience. So did increased viewing of morning TV shows. By the mid 80s, when Howard was syndicated locally, the pie had too many slices.
 
ProducerGuy said:
For such a major market, Philly has never really had a tradition of great local morning shows. The biggest show the city has ever known was based in New York. (Stern)

Preston and Steve must be the heirs apparent, but they're borderline unlistenable.
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Philly never had a good local morning show?
John DeBella and The Morning Zoo on WMMR? #1 for years. Took Stern many years to beat John and then the Zoo only went to #2.
The Barsky Show on WCAU, Y100, MAX 95.7, The Point?
The Preston & Steve Show on both Y100 & WMMR. The show is quite listenable and the ratings tend to agree with me and not you
 
Who can't be charmed by Charlie Tuna?

But, in my old eyes, ALL of the current morning shows on Broadcast in Philly, bar none, are standing on the shoulders of the WARS between WIP, WFIL and WIBG. Ken Garlen, Dr. Don Rose, and Dom Wade/Don Cannon battled. Ken was the neighbor with a cup of coffee, focused, with an ace News division. WFIL was constantly reloading it's 6 shooter, fine tuning. WIBG argueably had the more creative talent, but loose formatics, letting WFIL win until Cannon In The Morning tightened things up. Then Buckley sold.

You can hear Cannon's old bits over and over in different veneers through the years, inspiring, not stolen, but inspiring bits on DeBella and the others. They too are very creative men, but those 4, to me, were the Contemporary Pioneers.
 
Who can't be charmed by Charlie Tuna? Anybody outside LA. He's never done a morning show or any local radio in Philly.

And it's Ken Garland.
 
FredLeonard said:
Who can't be charmed by Charlie Tuna? Anybody outside LA. He's never done a morning show or any local radio in Philly.
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If I could find a living legend in Philly, I'd put them on. But there's none left. And I need a legend in the morning. And Charlie is a legend, and fits the bill. A legend, is a legend, is a legend, is a legend. If I could do another job in addition to running all the attributes of this company, I would. But I can't work 16 hours a day and pull a daily shift,... besides my Live broadcasts from an occasional gig on location.

8 years of working without as much as a vacation of any sort, is incredibly daunting, for anyone. I'm not complaining, I'm just not a kid any more. At least that what my body keeps telling me. I'm 54. I've been doing Hy Lit Technologies since I was 45. That's a long long time. Running the audio systems of all the channels, running the web sites, building all the software, maintaining the social networks, writing books, responding to every e-mail that comes in, etc.

And then loosing Hy right in the middle of this I never expected. I still hurt immensely from his loss when I wake up every day. I've got to dance to keep from crying.

I know I'm not the only one who ever lost a parent or a love one, but the hurt just won't pass like I thought it would. And professional help just doesn't relieve the pain. I still wake up and it all stares me right in the face, like it was yesterday. Then my 7 day work week begins again.
 
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