[prisoner6]

The REALLY SAD thing for me is that there is NO wake up man in the Pittsburgh market! Not one! KDKA is boring, the younger oriented stations are stupid, and the others, including mine, are mind numbing PC.

The last real morning man I worked with was Jack Wheeler. Listeners hated him but they tuned in everyday.

I was his newsman. I might run a story to...instigate him. He’d break in and we would debate. When the mics were off we laughed ourselves silly.

He was tough to get along with but he knew how to get you up and going in morning and how to get advertisers.

[PA Engineer]

The REALLY SAD thing for me is that there is NO wake up man in the Pittsburgh market! Not one! KDKA is boring, the younger oriented stations are stupid, and the others, including mine, are mind numbing PC.

I agree. Do you think there is more to this story? FCC? Fairness Doctrine?

I remember first listening to Jim. At times I thought he was out there, until I realized he was years ahead sometimes of others in reporting the news.