Recent passings from the radio world

Jeremy Levy back with you from Hawaii with some sad news to report. Pierre Wolfe, the host of some local and national radio traveling shows in Colorado has passed away at the age of 93. This happened in the middle of November. I would like to share a couple of memories of Pierre and his shows.The first time that I remember listening to Pierre was when he did a local travel show on 92.5 KVOD radio which was a classical station back then. He did this show on Saturday mornings. This was back in 1997. This show was on for an hour with some classical music in the middle of it. The first week I tuned in was when Pierre Wolfe was traveling to Israel. He had a guest on to talk about the country. It was interesting.The next memory that I have was when I first tuned into Pierre’s syndicated show called America’s Dining and Travel Guide which was on 710 KNUS from 4-6 P.M on Sunday afternoons. This was back in 1997 but, later in the year. The first show I remember from this show was when Pierre Wolfe was broadcasting from Hershey, Pennsylvania. Pierre had a guest from the chocolate factory there and it made me think that Hershey Pennsylvania and the chocolate factory might be a place that I would like to visit one of these days. I haven’t gotten there yet but hope to get there sometime during all of my traveling. Another memory that I have is back in 2003 or 2004 when Pierre was on a cruise of Spain, Morocco and Portugal. Pierre couldn’t broadcast from those places. They didn’t have the equipment back then. Pierre needed a fill-in host. He knew a lot of people that could fill in. He picked Mike Boyle to fill in. When Pierre had his restaurant Mike would visit the restaurant. Pierre would have Mike on his TV show that he had back in the early 90’s. I really thought this was a wonderful fill in. I called in one of the weeks that Mike was filling in to talk about Cheese Burger in Paradise in Oahu Hawaii which used to be one of my favorite hamburger places. When Pierre Wolfe would travel around the world on cruises, he would have other people fill in like Jimmy Lakey, Jim Connor, Allen Scott, and Paul McGregor. That was my second favorite fill in on Pierre Wolfe’s show was when Allen Scott and Paul McGregor filled in. In 2010 or 2011 I really missed hearing Pierre’s traveling shows and really wished that he would show up on a different radio station in Denver Colorado. This didn’t happen. I will really miss his travel shows and I haven’t found another wonderful travel show since that time.RIP Pierre.Tony La Monica long time traffic reporter for KHOW radio has passed away. He had been dealing with an illness for a long time. Tony started with KIMN radio in the 1970’s. He worked with Don Martin doing news. Tony then went to KHOW radio to do traffic reports for KHOW radio. This is where I first heard him. He did traffic reports for the Peter Boyles Show and the afternoon shows on KHOW radio. I also remember his commercials for Johnson Storage and Moving. I really thought he did some wonderful traffic reporting.RIP Tony. I will really miss you.Thanks for tuning in.