Music and Malarkey in the Morning

The WLHA morning show, “Music and Malarkey in the Morning,”  heard M-F 7 AM to 10 AM, is hosted by best friends who have been broadcast buddies since the 1970s.  Casey and Nivek started doing radio together at WLHA in 1972, when they were at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.  Besides sharing the WLHA radio experience, they were also bandmates in the trombone section of the U.W. Marching Band.  They both went on to work in radio and eventually moved into TV engineering management roles at competing Madison TV stations.  They still live within walking distance of each other, and for the past 35 years they have been side-by-side playing trombones in a community band.

But wait, there’s more!   Tune in today and you’ll also get to hear Dan Smith and Tom Weeden, and sometimes even Lee Harris, Stan Lewis, Deke Duncan, Karen (Mrs. The K) and Lisa Weeden.

Dan Smith, host of American Cafe, joins the morning show towards the end of hour #2 to pose some thought and snicker provoking questions, riddles, and quizzes.  In earlier work lives, Dan worked with the all of  the morning crew, and also WLHA jocks Tom Bolger and Stan Lewis at local TV stations.

One of four Toms (Tom Baer, Tom MacDonald, and Tom Bolger) on The Big 64,  Tom “Readin’ Weeden,” is the voice of live commercials and the daily segments “Can I Get A Date in History?”,” TV Guide History” and “Half History”.  Tom is another old broadcast friend.  Tom and Casey connected in 1975 when they were doing radio together at WSUP-FM in Platteville, Wisconsin.  Like Casey, Nivek, and Stan Lewis, Tom also migrated from radio work to TV engineering and eventually returned to Madison when Casey urged him to join him on the engineering staff of WMTV.  Tom arrives at 8:30 each morning with a bucket of historical events, just in time to take part in the morning march around the WLHA  building.

If you sense a very casual fun vibe to the morning show, there’s a good reason for that.  Nivek, Casey, Dan and Tom recently retired and are delighted to be experiencing the joys of doing live radio together again.  They sincerely enjoy each other’s company as much as it sounds like.