WHIO Radio’s ‘Nostalgia Week’ begins Sunday

On Sunday, 1290 and 95.7 WHIO is kicking off this year’s “Nostalgia Week”, with special shows, interviews, and sounds from the station’s history. At 11 a.m., there will be a special “Nostalgia Week” edition of “Miami Valley Happenings” hosted by Jason Michaels, which will re-air Monday at 8 p.m. At 6 pm, there will be a special two-hour-long edition of “The Sunday Edge”, hosted by WHIO’s Todd Hollst, which will re-air at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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“On the Sunday Edge, WHIO listeners will hear some voices from the past,” said Hollst. “I made many good friends while working here in the 1990’s and I’ve interviewed them all. My favorite by far is Kent Voss. His humor, style and approach to talk radio resonated with me and still influences how I do my own show. He’s a great talent and I know many people who were living in Dayton during the 1990’s will remember his show fondly.”

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Hollst has fond memories of the station.

“WHIO radio is the first radio station I remember listening to. Every morning before school, I’d listen with my dad while mom made breakfast,” he said. “Lou Emm and Winston Hoener were the voices we began our days with. I remember after starting my first job at WHIO in 1993, Lou Emm, who had retired about a year prior, came into the studio early one Saturday morning while I was producing a show. I was so starstruck and could hardly talk to him. It was the only time I ever met him. But now, all those years later, there isn’t a day I don’t walk into our building and think of him and the many other legends who have spoken on the WHIO airwaves.”

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Friday morning will be a special extended edition of Miami Valley’s Morning News with Larry Hansgen, with a special hour for listeners to call-in and share their memories of the station from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

“I’m really excited about what we put together for next week,” said WHIO Radio Program Director Jeremy Ratliff. “We have a lot of cool stuff from our station’s past that we will be playing on the air.”