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  • The History Of Top 40 WAVA With David Edgar (Ep 15)

    The History Of Top 40 WAVA With David Edgar (Ep 15)
    May 1 2025
    David Edgar was at Top 40 WAVA for six of its eight-year history.

    On this episode, we discuss some of the incredible personalities who worked at the station, including Don Geronimio, Shadow Smith, Sandy Weaver, Jim Elliott, Charlie and Herrigan, JJ McKay, Mark Mitchell, Greg Thunder, George McFly, and Gene Baxter.

    David talks about starting at the station as a high school intern, working his way up to weekend airshifts, to full-time overnights, and eventually becoming Production Director.

    We talk about Don Geronimo programming WAVA for a period, and Geronimo moving from afternoons to mornings to team up with Mike O'Meara to start the Morning Zoo with Don and Mike.

    David shares the story of Elvis Duran doing an audition show on the station, and the incredible talents of George McFly and Greg Thunder.

    David also talks about the incredible radio created in the last six months of the station's life and the Final Hour of WAVA that David produced to reflect on the station's life.

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    46 m
  • Q107's Uncle Johnny (Ep 14)

    Q107's Uncle Johnny (Ep 14)
    Apr 2 2025
    Uncle Johnny is a legend in DC radio.

    In the 1980s, he hosted nights at Q107 (WRQX).

    On this episode, Uncle Johnny talks about working nights at Q107 for four or five years and tells the story of getting rehired after leaving for a brief period.

    We also walk through his career and figure out how he jumped from a few small market radio stations to Washington, DC.

    We also talk about how he got the name Uncle Johnny and why he decided to transition to doing mornings.

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    18 m
  • Why Z104 (WWZZ) Didn't Last With Mathew Blades (Ep 13)

    Why Z104 (WWZZ) Didn't Last With Mathew Blades (Ep 13)
    Mar 2 2025
    In 1996, a new Top 40 station launched in Washington.

    Z104 was upbeat and fun and did very well in the ratings for many years. Mathew Blades worked nights at the station for its first four years and later returned as its last morning host.

    On this episode of the DCRTV Podcast, Mathew talks about what made Z104 such a great radio station and why it eventually failed.

    Mathew also shares how he was fired twice from the radio station and learned, from a listener calling the request line, that the station was getting ready to flip formats.

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    46 m
  • The Backstory Of WMAL'S Trumbull And Core Show With Chris Core (Ep 12)

    The Backstory Of WMAL'S Trumbull And Core Show With Chris Core (Ep 12)
    Feb 5 2025
    Chris Core was on Washington radio for 44 years, including over 20 years co-hosting the Trumbull and Core show on WMAL.

    On this episode of the DCRTV Podcast, Chris talks about how he got hired at WMAL and ended up hosting afternoons with Bill Trumbull.

    We discuss how he teamed up with Brooke Stevens after Bill retired and why that partnership ended.

    Chris also talks about why he got fired from WMAL and how he ended up at WTOP.

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    32 m
  • The Story Of NewsChannel 8: From Start-Up To Sign-Off With Wayne Lynch (Ep 11)

    The Story Of NewsChannel 8: From Start-Up To Sign-Off With Wayne Lynch (Ep 11)
    Jan 8 2025
    The world was very different in 1991; there was no internet, no smartphones, and if you wanted local news, you had to wait for a live newscast from channels 4, 5, 7, or 9 or read it the next day in The Washington Post.

    Allbritton Communications, which owned Channel 7 (WJLA) at the time, saw an opportunity for a hyper-local 24/7 all-news TV Station, and NewsChannel 8 was born.

    Wayne Lynch was hired as the station's first News Director and was tasked with building out the television station's programming.

    On this episode, Wayne takes us behind the scenes in the early days of News Channel 8.

    We talk about the founding of the station, some of the anchors and reporters who worked for Wayne, the concept of zoned news - where they aired different newscasts in DC, Virginia, and Maryland, and what led to the ultimate downfall of the station.

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    32 m
  • How WAMU Is Preserving Radio History With Murray Horwitz (Ep 10)

    How WAMU Is Preserving Radio History With Murray Horwitz (Ep 10)
    Dec 3 2024
    There was a unique period of radio from the 1930s to the 1950s called network radio, where shows similar to TV shows aired on radio stations.

    Since 1964, WAMU has aired reruns of these shows on their show called The Big Broadcast.

    On this episode, show host Murray Horwitz and producer Jill Ahrold Bailey discuss the show's history, including the history of former hosts John Hickman and Ed Walker.

    We discuss how Murray and Jill find the episodes' recordings, some of the ads that seem silly by today's standards, and how they deal with content that could be offensive to today's audience.

    Murray also shares how he keeps the show fresh and relevant and how the audience has shifted from listeners re-listening to shows they grew up with to listeners hearing them for the first time.

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    36 m
  • The Early Days Of DC101 With Ernie Kay (Ernie Kyger) (Ep 9)

    The Early Days Of DC101 With Ernie Kay (Ernie Kyger) (Ep 9)
    Sep 25 2024
    Ernie takes us back to the founding of DC101 in the 1970's. Some of the topics we cover on this episode are:

    Why, in the early years of the radio station, they played Top 40 music during morning drive and AOR the rest of the day
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    We talk about some of the radio stations DC101 was competing with.

    Ernie tells us the secret to DC101's 50-year history of having so many legendary morning shows (Elliott, Greaseman, Howard Stern, and Johnny Holliday).

    We also talk about how Howard Stern was first teamed with Robin Quivers at DC101 in the 1980s, but was almost teamed up with someone else.
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    We also talk about Ernie's radio career.


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    29 m
  • The History Of Frederick's Z104 (WZYQ) With Kemosabi Joe (Ep 8)

    The History Of Frederick's Z104 (WZYQ) With Kemosabi Joe (Ep 8)
    Aug 20 2024
    In the 1970's, 80's and 90's, there was a great CHR radio station in Frederick called Z104.

    Kemosabi Joe was the Program Director and did mornings in the 1970s and 1980s.

    On this episode, we discuss how Joe made a small radio station sound so big.

    Some of the topics we cover during this episode:

    The secret that made Z104 such a great radio station

    Why Joe liked to recycle DJ names, somebody would leave, and he would give the new person the old person's name.

    How Z104 was a launching ground for new DJ's, and a temporary home when someone in DC or Baltimore would lose their job.

    Christmas Cash For Kids - A fundraiser that Z104 did every year for 20 years.

    We also talk about the jingles Z104 used.

    Where Joe went after Z104, and what he's doing today.

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    29 m
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