A favorite Minnesota Public Radio show is coming to an end. Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole told listeners of “The Morning Show” today they were calling it quits after 25 years of hosting the MPR show. Poole (a character played by Tom Keith) is retiring, but will continue doing sound effects for “A Prairie Home Companion.” Connelly will develop new programming for MPR. “The Morning Show” is currently heard on 89.3 The Current and on Classical Minnesota Public Radio in greater Minnesota.
Morning Show to end
Oct 15 2008 — 2:00am
4 Reader Comments
11:22 am
they never really fit in on the Current. I’ll appreciate quality music in the morning and hopefully no wacky antics.
11:58 am
I tried listening to it once and was bored out of my skull.
5:18 pm
It’s an acquired taste, yes, but Jim Ed and Dale now, IIRC, have the distinction of hosting the 2nd-longest-running morning show in Twin Cities radio history (tho, technically, Boone & Erickson weren’t paired together for weekday mornings until the 1970s thru 1998).
6:54 am
This program is a gem and will be sorely missed by me. Dale and Jim Ed’s chemistry is quirky and warm. They have given airtime to many artists who never otherwise would have gotten on the radio. The the subtle humor exhibited by their play lists is genius.