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WRTA Radio Taps Wendy Bell to Host Their Morning Show

Bell has been using her Facebook platform to reach thousands of people daily since she left WJAS-AM over a “personal matter” several months ago.

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Pennsylvania talk show host Wendy Bell has been hired to host the morning show on Altoona’s Talk Radio 98.5

Bell has been using her Facebook platform to reach thousands of people daily since she left WJAS-AM over a “personal matter” several months ago.

Bell parted ways with KDKA-AM last year over comments about park rangers shooting people who deface public monuments. 

Her career started in television. In 2016, she was fired from WTAE-TV after 18 years when she made comments deemed racist on her official Facebook page following a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg in which five adults and an unborn child were killed during a backyard cookout. 

Bell’s show is available on-air and on her new app which was downloaded 1,000 times in an hour on the same day it was released, according to her website

Bell began hosting a show part-time for WJAS in January. Her career in television included 21 regional Emmy Awards.

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  1. Rob Hoffmann

    September 13, 2021 at 1:57 pm

    ALTOONA?

    That’s literally the middle of nowhere for her alleged Pittsburgh audience. She’s about to be reminded what “out of sight, out of mind” really means.

    If this doesn’t work out, maybe she can try Reading, Scranton, or Hershey next.

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Dan Bongino: Best Thing Radio Hosts Can Do is Make An Announcement About An Announcement

“Honestly folks, if you’re in this business long enough, one of the best things you can do, if you ever get in it, is make an announcement about an announcement.”

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Dan Bongino has teased an announcement for his syndicated radio show and joked that’s the best thing he can do as a host.

During The Dan Bongino Show Wednesday, the host pitched that he would announce details on the future of the program on Thursday.

“I got some cool news for you tomorrow. ‘Well, why are you telling us today?’ Because I can’t say anything today but I definitely will say something tomorrow. And I just want you all to know, because I love you all,” said Bongino. “And I just want you to know we got a pretty cool announcement. I mean nothing like bananas or anything, but if you’re interested in this show, and you like everything that’s going on, you’re probably gonna like this, too. Lots of good stuff.”

Dan Bongino then joked that he’s keenly aware that he’s announcing that he has an announcement, but that’s one of the best things you can do as a radio host.

“Honestly folks, if you’re in this business long enough, one of the best things you can do, if you ever get in it, is make an announcement about an announcement. You know why? Here’s the apple,” Bongino said as he mimicked the sound of eating an apple. “You get it? You can make an announcement about an announcement…There is a real reason I can’t get away but it’s pretty cool. And I hope you like it.”

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Bill Handel: Ken Chiampou Retirement ‘Big, Big Hit to KFI’

According to KFI, John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou are the longest-running duo in talk radio history.

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KFI AM-640 host Ken Chiampou is in his final week hosting the station’s early afternoon show before he retires. Morning host Bill Handel shared his sentiments on the longtime host Tuesday.

John and Ken are airing a series of tributes to Chiampou throughout the week, and Tuesday, Handel shared that the loss of the radio host is a big one for the iHeartMedia station.

“Frankly, it’s a big, big hit to KFI. Obviously, you’ve been a huge part, not only of the radio station, but of talk shows all over the country,” Handel said. “Everybody knows who you are. Even though I hate to say this — because that’s not how I role — you are going to be missed. And it’s kind of a nice feeling to end a career the way you are doing, leaving at the high end of your career.”

According to KFI, John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou are the longest-running duo in talk radio history. The pair have been working together since 1988, when they joined 1400 WOND in Atlantic City, NJ, after leaving competing stations in Elmira, NY. 

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Hugh Hewitt: I Will Never Discuss Colleagues On the Air

“It is professional courtesy and I extend it to all my collegaues, present and past.”

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Hugh Hewitt welcomed author Tim Alberta to his Salem Radio Network morning show Wednesday to promote Alberta’s recent book. However, there was a point of contention about how the interview would be conducted.

While promoting that he’d appear with Hewitt, Alberta shared that he had agreed not to discuss Eric Metaxas and Charlie Kirk — Hewitt’s Salem Radio Network colleagues — during the interview, despite being prominent figures in his book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.

“I agreed to keep his Salem Radio colleagues, Charlie Kirk & Eric Metaxas, whose radicalism I document in detail, out of this conversation,” Alberta wrote in a post to X.

Hugh Hewitt followed that post up by pointing out the condition for Alberta to appear on the program and not talk about Salem Radio Network hosts isn’t a new policy for the longtime radio host.

“In the interests of accuracy, (Tim Alberta), on air I told you I don’t discuss colleagues from (NBC), (The Washington Post), or (Salem Media Group) on air and that therefore we wouldn’t be discussing Charlie or Eric, and you agreed to my groundrules,” Hewitt wrote. “It is a rule set for every interview with every author and guest for all three platforms. It is professional courtesy and I extend it to all my collegaues, present and past.”

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