The WLHA Comedy Hour features cuts from the classic comedy albums of the 1960’s and 70’s. You will hear comedy stars like Bob Newhart, George Carlin and Bill Cosby plus some of the forgotten greats of the era. We also include some UK comedy from the likes of Monty Python and The Goon Show. On […]
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Peter Jay
Avid Listener of the Big 64 . . . . . . BE THERE! Graduate of UW-Platteville Radio/TV Broadcasting where I met and went to school with Casey thee K and Tom Reading Weeden. Disco era club DJ Sports Television Engineer (still working). Lover of the music we grew up with and Midwest Bands in […]
American Cafe w/Dan Smith
Dan Smith began his radio career listening to his transistor radio under his pillow to everything from Wolfman Jack to the folk music program from the University of Michigan. Later he would work in college radio at Michigan State and had the briefest of careers at KPIK in Colorado Springs, where the big hit was […]
Lee Harris
Lee Harris first got on the air at age 13 doing “SchoolScope” reports for his hometown radio station on Long Island. Upon arrival at UW he headed straight for WLHA and has never really left despite years of working on the air in Chicago, Phoenix, St. Louis and for the last 30 years or so […]
Tom Bolger
Tom Bolger, host of Saturday afternoon’s Tunes with Tom program, began his broadcast career in 1951 on WRTC in Hartford, Connecticut. WRTC was affiliated with Trinity College. The station was what they called a “wired meant that the statiwireless” which on actually broadcast on airwaves and wasn’t restricted to the confines of the college’s campus. […]
Casey the K
Live in Madison, Wisconsin. Married, with two adult children and two wonderful dogs. When I am not doing radio shows, I enjoy spending time with my family and the dogs, writing spoof commercials and radio dramas, recording and producing music at Trailing Edge Studios, woodworking, working on electronic projects, playing trombone, and spending time at […]
James Copeland
James Copeland is sometimes the youngest member of the WLHA air staff, although his knowledge of baby boomer era trivia might say otherwise. He travels the country full time in a period 1975 Winnebago Indian motor home and informs listeners what broke during the past week on his show. He also plays Mrs. Miller every […]
Stan Lewis
A native Madisonian, my interest in radio broadcasting began as a listener to the big Top 40 personalities at WOKY, WLS, WIND and local WISM. At age 12 I soldered together a small one tube phono oscillator AM Transmitter Kit. I connected it to a wire out my bedroom window into the backyard with nearby […]
Nivek Extravaganza
I grew up in Milwaukee listening to Fritz the Plumber on WMIL and Bob Berry on WOKY, so my musical tastes are varied. I collect 78 RPM records of everything from marches to jazz. When I’m not doing radio on the Big 64 or manning the local missile silo, I like to camp, swim and […]