September 14, 2026 • 30 mins
Guest host Joe Lomonaco talks about what he has been doing of late, the Bills, and the Rochester Association of Black Journalists awards.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They in store for us today. Expect highs today mostly
in the mid-60s during the afternoon. For tonight, mainly clear
skies and a chilly night will drop to the upper
40s for overnight lows. And for tomorrow, partly sunny skies
with high temperatures back into the mid-70s for highs by then.
From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder.
On Rochester's news, weather and traffic station, NewsRadio, WHAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Downtown, sunny skies and 55 degrees, also 55 in Honeyway Falls.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's 8.02 on Rochester Source. For breaking news, weather, and traffic,
NewsRadio WHAM 1180. A Genesee County crash has left a
man dead.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Deputies say an SUV ran a stop sign at Batavia-Oakfield
Town Line Road and Route 63 in Batavia last night
and collided with a car.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A passenger in the car, Donald Fitch of Basem, was killed.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Both drivers were hospitalized but are expected to survive. No
charges have been filed.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Dominic Ciccarelli, NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
No arrest said in a stabbing in downtown Rochester. Police
say someone slashed a 23-year-old man in the leg during
an argument early on yesterday morning at Pleasant Street in
North Clinton Avenue. The victim was taken to the hospital
but was not badly hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
A water main break in Penfield has forced residents from
several condos in the Forest Hill complex. Authorities say the
break created two large sinkholes and severely damaged a section
of Penn Lane, making nearby homes unsafe. The Red Cross
right now is helping out with temporary housing while crews
work on the repairs.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Jury selection slated to begin today in the trial of
a man accused of gunning down another man on Rochester's
north side. and nearly shooting an RPD officer.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
35-year-old Edison Estamara Cohen faces second-degree murder, attempted aggravated murder
of a police officer, robbery, and gun crimes. Police say
he shot 30-year-old David Vasquez to death on Oscar Street
back in June of last year. Body cam footage showed
Estamara Cohen firing a shot that missed an officer by
inches during the ensuing foot chase. Before that, officer tackled him.
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and another officer fired three shots at him. Anthony Panazowicz, NewsRadio,
WAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
More testimony today in the trial of two brothers accused
of killing an Irondequoit family of four over missing drug money.
Julio and Luis Soriano allegedly tortured and murdered the two
adults and two young children in August 2024 before setting
their Knapp Avenue home on fire to cover it up.
The trial's been on hold since last Wednesday when prosecutors
presented graphic testimony regarding how the victims were zip-tied and killed.
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The trial is expected to continue for several more weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
A blow for peace hopes in the Middle East as
a meeting between Iran and its neighbours put on ice.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The regional meeting has been postponed in the interest of consensus,
says Oman's foreign minister. It was meant to see Iran
and Oman present Gulf Arab states with a plan governing
shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, strikes by
Iran-backed Houthi rebels based in Yemen have forced the closure
of Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline, a vital alternative given
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the effective closure of the strait. All this has seen
oil prices rise further. Iran insists Hormuz won't reopen until
the United States satisfies the Tehran government's demands. Jonathan Savage,
Fox News.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And a new report says Americans are tired and some
more than others. A report from the CDC's National Center
for Health Statistics says about 71% of adults in the U.S.
say they experience fatigue on multiple days over the past
three months. Women and younger adults are more likely to
report frequent fatigue, meaning most days or every day. The
lead author of the report says fatigue is one of
the most frequently reported health concerns in primary care visits
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in the U.S. The researchers say fatigue is not ordinary sleepiness.
It's physical or mental exhaustion that does not improve With
added sleep or rest. NewsRadio WAM 1180 time is now 8.05.
Thanks for listening to the morning news.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Who said radio people get enough sleep? Here he is
in for Bob Lossberry this morning. Joe Lomonaco on NewsRadio
WAM 1180.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah. Here's one of the nice things about working from home.
When that fatigue kicks in, and I'm not denying that
it doesn't kick in because it does, I can just
walk from my basement to my living room and take
a nap. It's a wonderful thing. And the fatigue is real.
(04:17):
It definitely is. And as you get a little bit older,
when you become a person of a certain age– shut up, Barry–
It does happen. Barry doesn't have time for napping. What,
are you kidding me? He never has time for napping. Anyway, yeah, hi.
This is weird. This feels a little weird. For those
of you who know me, it is good to see
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you again. For those who I might be meeting for
the very first time, because it's been a hot minute
since I've sat behind one of these microphones, hi there.
I'm Joel Lomonaco. I used to be somebody here for
a little bit from the late 90s. Until the end
of 2023, I was the host of the WAM 5
o'clock news hour here on NewsRadio WAM 1180. And now
(05:01):
I'm back here to take on the daunting task of
sitting in this chair for Bob Lonsberry. A couple of
things I realized. Number one, reading the news is a
cakewalk as opposed to being a person that has to
be here to tell the stories and to keep the
thing going. So Bob has a Herculean task that he
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does every day, and I am honored to be able
to sit in this chair and do it. Just to
let you know what we're going to be up to
this morning, I am going to carry you through until
nine o'clock. So we're going to do a little here
and there, a little catch up, a few things I
wanted to just throw out there this morning. But the
main meat of today, and Bob's been talking about this
(05:42):
last week, I'm going to be joined starting at 9 o'clock,
and between 9 and noon, I will be basically facilitating
the conversation between two Rochester broadcasting legends. Don Elhart will
be here with us. Don retired from a nearly 60-year
career in television a couple of years ago. We want
(06:05):
to check in with him. It's the first time he's
been back with us here on the air. since he retired.
So we want to see how retirement's going for Don.
People who are like him and so busy and had
such a long career, I would suspect that retirement might
have been an interesting adjustment. So we're going to check
in with Don. A guy who's a professional at retirement
is Gary Smith. Gary is one of my all-time favorite
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human beings. I absolutely adore spending time with him. He
has a wealth of information about media in this town
and He has done everything from being a disc jockey
to being a sports announcer to being a salesperson to
being a husband and father and grandpa. And he's coming
up on my gosh, he must be almost 90 years old.
(06:50):
Maybe we'll have to ask him to give us the
the actual age. But anyway, so both of these guys
are going to be here starting at nine o'clock and
we're just going to check in with them. We want
to talk to him about what they've been doing with
retirement and We want to talk to them about some
things that have been going on in our town, some
things that have been happening in our industry. And one
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thing that happens when media people get together, we just
like to, number one, make each other laugh and one-up
each other. So that will obviously happen. On the other hand,
we just have a compulsion for telling stories. And that
is one of the things that makes people like Don
and people like Gary very unique. is that they have
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built careers on being storytellers, and they've been so engaging
to have brought other people in to sort of hang
on their every word and to really enjoy what they
have to say, regardless of what it is, whether you
meet them in the supermarket or they're standing in front
of you in front of a room full of people
trying to raise money for a wonderful organization. So that's
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what's going to be happening today. We've got Don Elhart
and Gary Smith coming up. They're going to be joining
me after the news at 9 o'clock. They will be
here until noon. We have a lot of story. We're
going to run out of time, obviously. We are going
to run out of time to talk with them before
we actually have all of the stories together that we're
going to want to share. So that is where we
(08:15):
are going today. My name is Joe Lomonaco. It is
a pleasure to be back behind this microphone on NewsRadio
WAM 1180. It's been a minute. It is nice to
catch up with you. It is nice, Bob, to give
me the opportunity to do so. And right now, it's
time for a check of traffic and weather on the
10s on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
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workshop on October 14th. We have slow traffic on 490
eastbound into Westgate and heavy from 390 into the inner loop.
590 heavy southbound in spots from 104 in East Herondicoit
down to 490 and 390 southbound busy from 490 into
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Scottsville Road. We've got a crash downtown Mount Reed Boulevard,
both directions into Garland Avenue. Expect some delays there. And
also Carter Street, both directions at 104, an accident being cleared.
I'm Janelle Prisman on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
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Speaker 1 (09:19):
Off to work week, a cool day in store for
us today. Expect highs today mostly in the mid-60s during
the afternoon. For tonight, mainly clear skies and a chilly night.
We'll drop to the upper 40s for overnight lows. And
for tomorrow, partly sunny skies with high temperatures back into
the mid-70s for highs by then. From the 13 WHAM
Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder on Rochester's news, weather,
(09:41):
and traffic station. NewsRadio, WHAM 1180.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Lots of sunshine. 56 degrees in downtown Rochester. Joel Amonico
here for Bob Lonsberry on NewsRadio, WHAM 1180. I'm honored
to be back here. I haven't been in the studios
since the end of 2023. It was a bit, as
Joel Askey mentioned when we talked briefly at the end
of the morning news. Yeah, for 27 years I was
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the host of the WHAM 5 o'clock news hour from
the late 90s, like 97 or so, until the end
of 2023. So this is the first time I've been
back here to do live radio in a bit. So
we're kicking the rust off the calipers, you know what
I mean? That's kind of how we're doing it today.
I'm still with this organization, with iHeartRadio, but you don't
(10:36):
hear me unless you're paying attention to the commercial breaks.
I know it's the part that you skip through on
your podcasts or you fast forward through on your YouTube videos,
but Yeah, that's what I do now. It's been a
concurrent job that I've had while I was on the air.
My main focus was being the commercial production director here,
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not only for this group of radio stations here in Rochester,
and that was long-term, 25-plus years. But now I apply
that trade with iHeartRadio stations across the country. So if
you happen to like another one of our stations in
some other markets or you happen to listen to– Say
the Denver Broncos radio network or the Cincinnati Bengals radio
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network or minor league baseball in another town. Chances are
you might hear me selling you something for one of
those locations. We do commercial production in my division for
iHeartRadio stations across the country, as far away as Hawaii
and Alaska and all of the lower 48. So I
achieved a lifelong goal of mine toward the end of 2023.
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I'd always told people, you know, the soon as I
can build a studio in my house, you'll never see
me again. And I used to consider it sort of
a ha-ha thread. It was like, yeah, ha-ha-ha, yeah, as
soon as I can do it, you'll never see me again. Well,
it actually happened. To the end of 2023, built a
little studio in my house, and I had the opportunity
to now do work for all of our iHeart stations
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across the country, the iHeartRadio app, Premier Radio Networks, and
to really help our clients out. in a number of
capacities in a way that I wasn't able to do
so here. So I spent 27 great years on the air.
I absolutely loved every single minute of it. The wonderful
broadcasters I got a chance to work with, not only
Joe Lasky, who's now moved into the morning news position,
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but Randy Gordman and Sherry Smith and Beverly Morgan and
Dave McKinley and Shelley Tripp, Brendan O'Riordan, all these wonderful
people that I had the opportunity to work for and
work with while I was doing the on-air podcast. part
of it, and I miss every one of those people.
Don't get a chance to see them nearly enough. So
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still working a microphone, just not in a live setting anymore. So, again,
thank you very much for spending a little time with me. Again,
Gary Smith and Don Elhart coming up at 9 o'clock
this morning. We've got a few more things to discuss.
We will do that before we get them on board
later on this morning. I'm Joel DeMonaco, and for Bob Lonsbury,
you're listening to NewsRadio, WAM 1180. The Slap of Leather.
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The forecast for today will see partly to mostly sunny skies,
but a cooler day than recent days. Highs today mostly
in the mid-60s. Going into tonight, mainly clear skies and
a fairly chilly night for this time of year will
drop down to about the upper 40s. And for the
day tomorrow, partly sunny skies with high temperatures mostly in
the mid-70s. From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist
(14:02):
Marty Snyder on Rochester's news, weather and traffic station. News Radio,
WHAM 1180.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Now with tons of sunshine, 56 degrees. In downtown Rochester,
I'm Joel DeMonaco, in for Bob Lonsberry on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
I'm happy to be in the big chair today, hanging
with you until 9 o'clock this morning when I will
be joined by two local broadcast legends, and I cannot
wait to spend some time with them. Don Alhart and
Gary Smith are going to be coming in from 9
until noon. We've got a lot of catching up to
(14:30):
do with them. Find out how retirement has been for
the both of them, see what both of them are
up to. As I mentioned at the top of the show,
we're going to have not enough time and too many
things to discuss when we do. I don't normally talk sports,
but I do kind of have to this morning. It's
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the day after a Bills game. So, of course, that's
what we talk about in Western New York. And I
think we all feel better when the Bills get a win.
And no matter whether you follow the team, whether it's
a part of your day-to-day routine, whether you're a big
Bills backer or a Mafia or whatever, you tend to
just notice that we feel better as a community when
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the team gets a win. One of my Facebook friends,
Christina Lynn, hi, Christina, had mentioned anyone else feeling Bills anxiety.
And I don't know, is it a thing? Or maybe
it's just me because I'm kind of a casual fan.
I follow the team. I watch the games. I take
an interest in it more than a passing interest in it.
But yeah, the team does give me It does give
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me a little bit of anxiety here and there. It's
come down to the final play of the fourth quarter.
Greg Rousseau winds up stripping that ball out. They fall
on it. Bills take the win. It comes down to
that very last play. It's got, what, five, six lead
changes throughout the day. Talk about a team that, number one,
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they put an exciting product. If you can handle the stress,
maybe I'll put it that way. If you can handle
the stress, the Bills are a great watcher. And last
game yesterday definitely proved it. If you can handle the
back and forth and back and forth, and I tend
to wind up getting a bit defeated. I was a
New York Giants fan for a long, long time. I
haven't followed the team in a number of years. But,
(16:16):
you know, you got in some cases set up for
disappointment when you were a New York Giants fan, especially
over more recent seasons. And I tended to be the
same way watching the Bills. When they would be playing
well and have a lead, I'd be very excited and
very like, oh, they got this. This is going to
be a great game. I'm going to love watching this
because they're going to be in the lead wire to wire,
and that's all there is to it. But this back
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and forth and back and forth thing, It kind of
gets to me after a while. I literally wound up
having to pass out for about 30 minutes there in
the beginning of the fourth quarter. I said, like, look,
I'm just going to take a quick nap. I'm going
to wake up on the other side, and maybe I'm
going to be very impressed with what happens. And it
was definitely a nail-biter coming down to the end. And
I'll tell you what, if they can wind up keeping
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that kind of energy and intensity going throughout the season,
it is going to be an absolutely incredible year. We're
very fortunate here in Broadcast Central. to have the bills
back under our roof on our sister station, Radio 95.1.
So in case you're not able to. find a place
where you can sit and watch a game. Maybe you've
still got stuff. Because, I mean, let's be honest, the
(17:21):
weekends are still chock full into September. We stretch outdoor
stuff and things we need to do as long as
is humanly possible. Go and go and go. So maybe
you need to listen to it. Radio 95.1 is going
to be the place for you to do that. So congratulations.
It feels lighter in western New York when you get
a Bills win. Short turnaround for them. They'll take on
the Lions in the Thursday night football. That'll be the
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Highmark Stadium opener this coming week, and that's going to
be really fun to see. A little bit past my bedtime,
but then again, you know, fatigue is a real thing.
But since I normally work from home, I'm just going
to go upstairs and take a nap when it gets
to be a little bit too much for me. I'm
Joel DeMonaco in for Bob Lonsberry. We have another half
an hour to spend before Gary Smith and Don Elhart
join us. Can't wait for that to happen. In the meantime,
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news is next on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
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Speaker 5 (18:25):
Van Bortle Ford is proud to be certain. Nine o'clock,
that is when Gary Smith and Don Elhart will be
joining me. When three media pros get together with a combined...
I don't know, almost 150. Between the three of us, Gary,
almost 150 sitting behind microphones or in front of cameras.
We're going to have an awful lot to talk about.
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Getting some texts and messages in on the personals. Got
to say hey to Patty Amon up there at Amon's
Farm Market in Irondequoit. I'll see what I can do
about the music request, Patty. Travis Anderson, hello. Good morning
to you. Travis and I go way back, not only
to our Geneseo days, but even further back to that
into the Binghamton area in Southern Tier where we both
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grew up. And then he clued in my former college roommate,
Professor Hardass, Glenn Harland, out there in the Capital District.
Heard from all of them this morning. So thank you, guys.
Thank you for either tuning in here locally or Anywhere
on the iHeartRadio app so that you can listen live. Yeah,
it's been a minute since I've sat down here behind
a microphone and tried to remember how to do this gig.
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I was the host of the WAM 5 o'clock news
hour for a good number of years. 27, I think,
is the official count from the late 90s until 2023.
Still with iHeartRadio, you may hear me selling you not
only a product here and there here in the Rochester region.
but at stations all across the country. One of the
nice things about how our business has changed, and I
(19:48):
think this is one of the things that I really
enjoyed about it, is that you can do and be
valuable to businesses and station groups all across the country,
and you don't necessarily have to travel. Now, granted, I
do occasional work in Honolulu, Hawaii. And I would be
fine with taking a field trip. I would be absolutely
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fine on the company's dime to take a field trip
to just see, you know, like I need to tweak
your microphone. Like you've recorded a few things for me
and it's not quite the way I think it ought
to be. So I'd like to just come down and
just be boots on the ground and just tweak it
for you. And then I'll stay for a bit just
to make sure it works. Same thing with Anchorage, Alaska.
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I'd love to see Anchorage, Alaska. I think it would
be a phenomenal place to actually put on my own eyeballs.
You know, you see pictures or a friend of yours
takes a cruise and they do that coastline thing and
they say like, oh, and we saw bears. Yeah, great.
Wonderful story. I would love to actually peep it on
my eyes. So we have station groups there. I get
a chance to do some work there. It's like you
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travel and you get to know a little bit about
the communities that you work in. even though you do
it at a distance and you know that you can
be helpful. So that's what I've been up to for
the last, since I left you, that's what I do,
is commercial work all over the place. So every now
and again, you might hear us like, is that the
guy that I used to hear? Like, yes, it is.
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And I'm probably selling you a car or windows in
somewhere far, far away. Time for traffic and weather on
the 10s now on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
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From the Clark-Peshkin Trap.
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Cast for today looks pretty nice to start off the
work week. A cool day in store for us today.
Expect highs today mostly in the mid-60s during the afternoon.
For tonight, mainly clear skies and a chilly night will
drop to the upper 40s for overnight lows. And for tomorrow,
partly sunny skies with high temperatures back into the mid-70s
for highs by then. From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority,
(21:48):
I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. on Rochester's news, weather, and traffic station.
News Radio, Web 1180.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
And with a beautiful sunshiny sky, 56 degrees in downtown Rochester,
I'm Joel DeMonaco for Bob Lonsberry on News Radio, Web 1180.
Happy to be joining you. We do have some broadcast
legends coming in, some veterans coming in. Don Alhart and
Gary Smith will be joining me after the news at
9 o'clock. I did want to, though, take a moment
(22:14):
to comment on the fact that– I think it was–
is it over the weekend? Maybe it was Friday or Saturday.
The Rochester Association of Black Journalists held their annual awards ceremony,
and they presented a couple of awards. Their Emerging Journalist
Award went to Stephanie Joseph over for 13WHAM Television. Now,
I don't know Stephanie. I know her work, and she's wonderful.
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And this is, I think, her first gig out of college,
has been working here in Rochester. And she does an
incredible work. So good on her for being recognized by
this organization. But there were two Lifetime Achievement Awards that
were given out. And in case you missed this or
it didn't pop into your algorithm, I just want to
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congratulate them on their work and on their achievement. The
first one is Richard McCullough. Now, Richard is still going strong.
He's still the meteorologist over at another station here in Rochester.
I will say the call letters. It's WDKX. He's still
their chief meteorologist. He was a meteorologist on television as well.
That part of his career, when you talk about a
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guy who's done so much, television, he was a meteorologist.
He's still very passionate about the weather. He's an accomplished videographer.
He's an historian. He's an educator. He's a farmer. Weatherfield
Farm down in Livingston County, he grows tea. Huh, never
would have thought that. And I love the fact that
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he does it and he shares that passion. Congratulations to
Richard on being acknowledged for Lifetime Achievement by the Rochester
Association of Black Journalists. And keep going, honey. You're doing
amazing stuff. And I love to see what you're up to,
especially when he puts on the hat and goes out
in the tea fields. It's just cute. The second person
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who received the Lifetime Achievement Award is Janet Lomax. Now,
I know Janet a little, and I've met her on
a few occasions. There are people who, when they walk
into a room, the energy of that room changes dramatically
and positively. Janet Lomax is that person. Whenever she walks
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into a room, you can feel it. People stop what
they're doing. They turn up. Miss Janet's here. Miss Janet's here.
It's something that is an intangible part of what makes
someone an extraordinary human being, not only extraordinary professional, but
an extraordinary human being. Janet is an absolute doll. I
love her work. Again, I said I don't know her well,
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but I know her well enough to know that I
do exactly the same thing when she walks into a room.
So Janet's here. I have to just go and say hi.
Congratulations to both of them on their achievement. for their careers,
for the legacy they left behind, for those who will
follow in their footsteps. And there are plenty of them
who will look to those people and say, yes, I
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want to be exactly like them. You've set the bar high,
and hopefully all of us can aspire to be the
person that when you walk into the room, the energy
changes for the positive. I'm Joel DeMonaco in for Bob Lonsberry,
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For today, we'll see partly to mostly sunny skies, but
a cooler day than recent days. Highs today mostly in
the mid-60s. Going into tonight, mainly clear skies and a
fairly chilly night for this time of year. We'll drop
down to about the upper 40s. And for the day tomorrow,
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On Rochester's News, Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio, WHAM 1180.
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56 degrees with lots of sunshine. It's a nice day.
Play hooky and hang out with us on the radio,
why don't you? It's Monday. You're coming after an exhausting
Bills win. It ages you, I think, maybe a little bit.
Some of the memes that you wind up seeing out
on your socials the day after a back-and-forth Bills win
when they hang on and it comes down to the
end of the fourth quarter, it's like Frazzled Barbie doing
her makeup. That's what I feel like. I feel like
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I just aged a bit after having watched the game.
Also coming in on the socials, I want to say
good morning to John Brown.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yo, Joe.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Little message on the Facebook page. Hi, John. Joe Stockslater.
Number one, why are you up? You work nights, you vampire.
Couldn't find anyone else, huh? No, they couldn't. That's exactly
why I'm here. You realize, of course, how far down
the list of possible fill-ins you have to go. It's like, Well, hell,
(27:06):
was Kevin Williams not available today? Can we bring Mike
O'Brien back in for another one? He's at least been places.
I go to my basement every day. At least he
gets out and sees people. So, no, there was no
one else here. And it is rare that Bob just
takes a day off here. But I think it's warranted.
He can go out and he can have– he has
(27:28):
to have a life outside of here. He loves spending
time with you. He loves sharing stories with you. He
loves all of that. But sometimes you got to bring
in the B team. And that's the thing. After not
doing this for a few years and then coming back
into to sit behind a microphone in a live setting,
you know, because normally in my day to day, I
get a chance to do take twos or take tens.
(27:49):
If I'm not happy with something, I can finesse the
living bejeebers out of it until I am just exactly
where I want to be. In this setting, it's like,
all right, there you go. So when they called me,
I knew it's like I could smell the desperation on you.
But what they said is, so we want Gary and
(28:09):
we want Don to do the show. And I said, okay,
that's perfect. Absolutely. I don't have to do much talking.
I just have to throw them the questions and let
them go, which will happen. You will see. We are
going to run out of time before we run out
of topics. But I said, really, this is where you
are right now. You can't just let the two of
them go. No, you need to bring me in for
(28:30):
some trifecta from hell. So there we go. So now
it's my time to come back in. And I tell
you what, I know exactly how this is going to go.
I'm going to feel like it's clicking, like I am
really feeling good about it. At like 11.56, I'm going
to feel really good about it. It's like Gary can
attest to this. It's like the 18th hole. When you
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know coming in, it's like if you're playing at Greystone.
You play at Greystone, and the guys stand up on
a balcony that overlooks the 18th hole at Greystone. And
you either get one of two reactions. They either harangue
the living hell out of you because you shank a
shot or put it in the water. Or they cheer
you on because you got that mid-iron on the green
(29:16):
and it held. Maybe you've got a 60-foot putt to make.
But still, you got it on the green and they
cheer you on. And that makes you think, you know what,
I've had an absolutely horrific round to this point. But
doggone it, I'm going to finish this one up. I'm
going to tell stories about how I got cheered in
the 18th hole at Greystone. And I am going to
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pay good money to go and do this nonsense. again. Now, granted,
I didn't have to pay for the ability to do
this nonsense again, but I am so happy that I'm
going to be able to do it. Don Elhart is here.
Gary Smith is here. I'm here. I'm Joe Lomonaco. I
am so happy to be your conversation facilitator as we
get set to get into the meat. On the rest
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of this program, Joel DeMonaco for Bob Lonsbury on NewsRadio
WHAM 1180.
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They in store for us today. Expect highs today mostly
in the mid-60s during the afternoon. For tonight, mainly clear
skies and a chilly night will drop to the upper
40s for overnight lows. And for tomorrow, partly sunny skies
with high temperatures back into the mid-70s for highs by then.
From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder.
On Rochester's news, weather and traffic station, NewsRadio, WHAM 1180.
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Downtown, sunny skies and 55 degrees, also 55 in Honeyway Falls.
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It's 8.02 on Rochester Source. For breaking news, weather, and traffic,
NewsRadio WHAM 1180. A Genesee County crash has left a
man dead.
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Deputies say an SUV ran a stop sign at Batavia-Oakfield
Town Line Road and Route 63 in Batavia last night
and collided with a car.
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A passenger in the car, Donald Fitch of Basem, was killed.
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Both drivers were hospitalized but are expected to survive. No
charges have been filed.
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Dominic Ciccarelli, NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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No arrest said in a stabbing in downtown Rochester. Police
say someone slashed a 23-year-old man in the leg during
an argument early on yesterday morning at Pleasant Street in
North Clinton Avenue. The victim was taken to the hospital
but was not badly hurt.
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A water main break in Penfield has forced residents from
several condos in the Forest Hill complex. Authorities say the
break created two large sinkholes and severely damaged a section
of Penn Lane, making nearby homes unsafe. The Red Cross
right now is helping out with temporary housing while crews
work on the repairs.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Jury selection slated to begin today in the trial of
a man accused of gunning down another man on Rochester's
north side. and nearly shooting an RPD officer.
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35-year-old Edison Estamara Cohen faces second-degree murder, attempted aggravated murder
of a police officer, robbery, and gun crimes. Police say
he shot 30-year-old David Vasquez to death on Oscar Street
back in June of last year. Body cam footage showed
Estamara Cohen firing a shot that missed an officer by
inches during the ensuing foot chase. Before that, officer tackled him.
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and another officer fired three shots at him. Anthony Panazowicz, NewsRadio,
WAM 1180.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
More testimony today in the trial of two brothers accused
of killing an Irondequoit family of four over missing drug money.
Julio and Luis Soriano allegedly tortured and murdered the two
adults and two young children in August 2024 before setting
their Knapp Avenue home on fire to cover it up.
The trial's been on hold since last Wednesday when prosecutors
presented graphic testimony regarding how the victims were zip-tied and killed.
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The trial is expected to continue for several more weeks.
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A blow for peace hopes in the Middle East as
a meeting between Iran and its neighbours put on ice.
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The regional meeting has been postponed in the interest of consensus,
says Oman's foreign minister. It was meant to see Iran
and Oman present Gulf Arab states with a plan governing
shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, strikes by
Iran-backed Houthi rebels based in Yemen have forced the closure
of Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline, a vital alternative given
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the effective closure of the strait. All this has seen
oil prices rise further. Iran insists Hormuz won't reopen until
the United States satisfies the Tehran government's demands. Jonathan Savage,
Fox News.
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And a new report says Americans are tired and some
more than others. A report from the CDC's National Center
for Health Statistics says about 71% of adults in the U.S.
say they experience fatigue on multiple days over the past
three months. Women and younger adults are more likely to
report frequent fatigue, meaning most days or every day. The
lead author of the report says fatigue is one of
the most frequently reported health concerns in primary care visits
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in the U.S. The researchers say fatigue is not ordinary sleepiness.
It's physical or mental exhaustion that does not improve With
added sleep or rest. NewsRadio WAM 1180 time is now 8.05.
Thanks for listening to the morning news.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Who said radio people get enough sleep? Here he is
in for Bob Lossberry this morning. Joe Lomonaco on NewsRadio
WAM 1180.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah. Here's one of the nice things about working from home.
When that fatigue kicks in, and I'm not denying that
it doesn't kick in because it does, I can just
walk from my basement to my living room and take
a nap. It's a wonderful thing. And the fatigue is real.
(04:17):
It definitely is. And as you get a little bit older,
when you become a person of a certain age– shut up, Barry–
It does happen. Barry doesn't have time for napping. What,
are you kidding me? He never has time for napping. Anyway, yeah, hi.
This is weird. This feels a little weird. For those
of you who know me, it is good to see
(04:39):
you again. For those who I might be meeting for
the very first time, because it's been a hot minute
since I've sat behind one of these microphones, hi there.
I'm Joel Lomonaco. I used to be somebody here for
a little bit from the late 90s. Until the end
of 2023, I was the host of the WAM 5
o'clock news hour here on NewsRadio WAM 1180. And now
(05:01):
I'm back here to take on the daunting task of
sitting in this chair for Bob Lonsberry. A couple of
things I realized. Number one, reading the news is a
cakewalk as opposed to being a person that has to
be here to tell the stories and to keep the
thing going. So Bob has a Herculean task that he
(05:22):
does every day, and I am honored to be able
to sit in this chair and do it. Just to
let you know what we're going to be up to
this morning, I am going to carry you through until
nine o'clock. So we're going to do a little here
and there, a little catch up, a few things I
wanted to just throw out there this morning. But the
main meat of today, and Bob's been talking about this
(05:42):
last week, I'm going to be joined starting at 9 o'clock,
and between 9 and noon, I will be basically facilitating
the conversation between two Rochester broadcasting legends. Don Elhart will
be here with us. Don retired from a nearly 60-year
career in television a couple of years ago. We want
(06:05):
to check in with him. It's the first time he's
been back with us here on the air. since he retired.
So we want to see how retirement's going for Don.
People who are like him and so busy and had
such a long career, I would suspect that retirement might
have been an interesting adjustment. So we're going to check
in with Don. A guy who's a professional at retirement
is Gary Smith. Gary is one of my all-time favorite
(06:29):
human beings. I absolutely adore spending time with him. He
has a wealth of information about media in this town
and He has done everything from being a disc jockey
to being a sports announcer to being a salesperson to
being a husband and father and grandpa. And he's coming
up on my gosh, he must be almost 90 years old.
(06:50):
Maybe we'll have to ask him to give us the
the actual age. But anyway, so both of these guys
are going to be here starting at nine o'clock and
we're just going to check in with them. We want
to talk to him about what they've been doing with
retirement and We want to talk to them about some
things that have been going on in our town, some
things that have been happening in our industry. And one
(07:11):
thing that happens when media people get together, we just
like to, number one, make each other laugh and one-up
each other. So that will obviously happen. On the other hand,
we just have a compulsion for telling stories. And that
is one of the things that makes people like Don
and people like Gary very unique. is that they have
(07:33):
built careers on being storytellers, and they've been so engaging
to have brought other people in to sort of hang
on their every word and to really enjoy what they
have to say, regardless of what it is, whether you
meet them in the supermarket or they're standing in front
of you in front of a room full of people
trying to raise money for a wonderful organization. So that's
(07:54):
what's going to be happening today. We've got Don Elhart
and Gary Smith coming up. They're going to be joining
me after the news at 9 o'clock. They will be
here until noon. We have a lot of story. We're
going to run out of time, obviously. We are going
to run out of time to talk with them before
we actually have all of the stories together that we're
going to want to share. So that is where we
(08:15):
are going today. My name is Joe Lomonaco. It is
a pleasure to be back behind this microphone on NewsRadio
WAM 1180. It's been a minute. It is nice to
catch up with you. It is nice, Bob, to give
me the opportunity to do so. And right now, it's
time for a check of traffic and weather on the
10s on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
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workshop on October 14th. We have slow traffic on 490
eastbound into Westgate and heavy from 390 into the inner loop.
590 heavy southbound in spots from 104 in East Herondicoit
down to 490 and 390 southbound busy from 490 into
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Scottsville Road. We've got a crash downtown Mount Reed Boulevard,
both directions into Garland Avenue. Expect some delays there. And
also Carter Street, both directions at 104, an accident being cleared.
I'm Janelle Prisman on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Off to work week, a cool day in store for
us today. Expect highs today mostly in the mid-60s during
the afternoon. For tonight, mainly clear skies and a chilly night.
We'll drop to the upper 40s for overnight lows. And
for tomorrow, partly sunny skies with high temperatures back into
the mid-70s for highs by then. From the 13 WHAM
Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder on Rochester's news, weather,
(09:41):
and traffic station. NewsRadio, WHAM 1180.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Lots of sunshine. 56 degrees in downtown Rochester. Joel Amonico
here for Bob Lonsberry on NewsRadio, WHAM 1180. I'm honored
to be back here. I haven't been in the studios
since the end of 2023. It was a bit, as
Joel Askey mentioned when we talked briefly at the end
of the morning news. Yeah, for 27 years I was
(10:11):
the host of the WHAM 5 o'clock news hour from
the late 90s, like 97 or so, until the end
of 2023. So this is the first time I've been
back here to do live radio in a bit. So
we're kicking the rust off the calipers, you know what
I mean? That's kind of how we're doing it today.
I'm still with this organization, with iHeartRadio, but you don't
(10:36):
hear me unless you're paying attention to the commercial breaks.
I know it's the part that you skip through on
your podcasts or you fast forward through on your YouTube videos,
but Yeah, that's what I do now. It's been a
concurrent job that I've had while I was on the air.
My main focus was being the commercial production director here,
(10:57):
not only for this group of radio stations here in Rochester,
and that was long-term, 25-plus years. But now I apply
that trade with iHeartRadio stations across the country. So if
you happen to like another one of our stations in
some other markets or you happen to listen to– Say
the Denver Broncos radio network or the Cincinnati Bengals radio
(11:18):
network or minor league baseball in another town. Chances are
you might hear me selling you something for one of
those locations. We do commercial production in my division for
iHeartRadio stations across the country, as far away as Hawaii
and Alaska and all of the lower 48. So I
achieved a lifelong goal of mine toward the end of 2023.
(11:45):
I'd always told people, you know, the soon as I
can build a studio in my house, you'll never see
me again. And I used to consider it sort of
a ha-ha thread. It was like, yeah, ha-ha-ha, yeah, as
soon as I can do it, you'll never see me again. Well,
it actually happened. To the end of 2023, built a
little studio in my house, and I had the opportunity
to now do work for all of our iHeart stations
(12:07):
across the country, the iHeartRadio app, Premier Radio Networks, and
to really help our clients out. in a number of
capacities in a way that I wasn't able to do
so here. So I spent 27 great years on the air.
I absolutely loved every single minute of it. The wonderful
broadcasters I got a chance to work with, not only
Joe Lasky, who's now moved into the morning news position,
(12:28):
but Randy Gordman and Sherry Smith and Beverly Morgan and
Dave McKinley and Shelley Tripp, Brendan O'Riordan, all these wonderful
people that I had the opportunity to work for and
work with while I was doing the on-air podcast. part
of it, and I miss every one of those people.
Don't get a chance to see them nearly enough. So
(12:49):
still working a microphone, just not in a live setting anymore. So, again,
thank you very much for spending a little time with me. Again,
Gary Smith and Don Elhart coming up at 9 o'clock
this morning. We've got a few more things to discuss.
We will do that before we get them on board
later on this morning. I'm Joel DeMonaco, and for Bob Lonsbury,
you're listening to NewsRadio, WAM 1180. The Slap of Leather.
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The forecast for today will see partly to mostly sunny skies,
but a cooler day than recent days. Highs today mostly
in the mid-60s. Going into tonight, mainly clear skies and
a fairly chilly night for this time of year will
drop down to about the upper 40s. And for the
day tomorrow, partly sunny skies with high temperatures mostly in
the mid-70s. From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist
(14:02):
Marty Snyder on Rochester's news, weather and traffic station. News Radio,
WHAM 1180.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Now with tons of sunshine, 56 degrees. In downtown Rochester,
I'm Joel DeMonaco, in for Bob Lonsberry on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
I'm happy to be in the big chair today, hanging
with you until 9 o'clock this morning when I will
be joined by two local broadcast legends, and I cannot
wait to spend some time with them. Don Alhart and
Gary Smith are going to be coming in from 9
until noon. We've got a lot of catching up to
(14:30):
do with them. Find out how retirement has been for
the both of them, see what both of them are
up to. As I mentioned at the top of the show,
we're going to have not enough time and too many
things to discuss when we do. I don't normally talk sports,
but I do kind of have to this morning. It's
(14:50):
the day after a Bills game. So, of course, that's
what we talk about in Western New York. And I
think we all feel better when the Bills get a win.
And no matter whether you follow the team, whether it's
a part of your day-to-day routine, whether you're a big
Bills backer or a Mafia or whatever, you tend to
just notice that we feel better as a community when
(15:11):
the team gets a win. One of my Facebook friends,
Christina Lynn, hi, Christina, had mentioned anyone else feeling Bills anxiety.
And I don't know, is it a thing? Or maybe
it's just me because I'm kind of a casual fan.
I follow the team. I watch the games. I take
an interest in it more than a passing interest in it.
But yeah, the team does give me It does give
(15:33):
me a little bit of anxiety here and there. It's
come down to the final play of the fourth quarter.
Greg Rousseau winds up stripping that ball out. They fall
on it. Bills take the win. It comes down to
that very last play. It's got, what, five, six lead
changes throughout the day. Talk about a team that, number one,
(15:53):
they put an exciting product. If you can handle the stress,
maybe I'll put it that way. If you can handle
the stress, the Bills are a great watcher. And last
game yesterday definitely proved it. If you can handle the
back and forth and back and forth, and I tend
to wind up getting a bit defeated. I was a
New York Giants fan for a long, long time. I
haven't followed the team in a number of years. But,
(16:16):
you know, you got in some cases set up for
disappointment when you were a New York Giants fan, especially
over more recent seasons. And I tended to be the
same way watching the Bills. When they would be playing
well and have a lead, I'd be very excited and
very like, oh, they got this. This is going to
be a great game. I'm going to love watching this
because they're going to be in the lead wire to wire,
and that's all there is to it. But this back
(16:38):
and forth and back and forth thing, It kind of
gets to me after a while. I literally wound up
having to pass out for about 30 minutes there in
the beginning of the fourth quarter. I said, like, look,
I'm just going to take a quick nap. I'm going
to wake up on the other side, and maybe I'm
going to be very impressed with what happens. And it
was definitely a nail-biter coming down to the end. And
I'll tell you what, if they can wind up keeping
(17:00):
that kind of energy and intensity going throughout the season,
it is going to be an absolutely incredible year. We're
very fortunate here in Broadcast Central. to have the bills
back under our roof on our sister station, Radio 95.1.
So in case you're not able to. find a place
where you can sit and watch a game. Maybe you've
still got stuff. Because, I mean, let's be honest, the
(17:21):
weekends are still chock full into September. We stretch outdoor
stuff and things we need to do as long as
is humanly possible. Go and go and go. So maybe
you need to listen to it. Radio 95.1 is going
to be the place for you to do that. So congratulations.
It feels lighter in western New York when you get
a Bills win. Short turnaround for them. They'll take on
the Lions in the Thursday night football. That'll be the
(17:42):
Highmark Stadium opener this coming week, and that's going to
be really fun to see. A little bit past my bedtime,
but then again, you know, fatigue is a real thing.
But since I normally work from home, I'm just going
to go upstairs and take a nap when it gets
to be a little bit too much for me. I'm
Joel DeMonaco in for Bob Lonsberry. We have another half
an hour to spend before Gary Smith and Don Elhart
join us. Can't wait for that to happen. In the meantime,
(18:02):
news is next on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
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Speaker 5 (18:25):
Van Bortle Ford is proud to be certain. Nine o'clock,
that is when Gary Smith and Don Elhart will be
joining me. When three media pros get together with a combined...
I don't know, almost 150. Between the three of us, Gary,
almost 150 sitting behind microphones or in front of cameras.
We're going to have an awful lot to talk about.
(18:47):
Getting some texts and messages in on the personals. Got
to say hey to Patty Amon up there at Amon's
Farm Market in Irondequoit. I'll see what I can do
about the music request, Patty. Travis Anderson, hello. Good morning
to you. Travis and I go way back, not only
to our Geneseo days, but even further back to that
into the Binghamton area in Southern Tier where we both
(19:08):
grew up. And then he clued in my former college roommate,
Professor Hardass, Glenn Harland, out there in the Capital District.
Heard from all of them this morning. So thank you, guys.
Thank you for either tuning in here locally or Anywhere
on the iHeartRadio app so that you can listen live. Yeah,
it's been a minute since I've sat down here behind
a microphone and tried to remember how to do this gig.
(19:28):
I was the host of the WAM 5 o'clock news
hour for a good number of years. 27, I think,
is the official count from the late 90s until 2023.
Still with iHeartRadio, you may hear me selling you not
only a product here and there here in the Rochester region.
but at stations all across the country. One of the
nice things about how our business has changed, and I
(19:48):
think this is one of the things that I really
enjoyed about it, is that you can do and be
valuable to businesses and station groups all across the country,
and you don't necessarily have to travel. Now, granted, I
do occasional work in Honolulu, Hawaii. And I would be
fine with taking a field trip. I would be absolutely
(20:10):
fine on the company's dime to take a field trip
to just see, you know, like I need to tweak
your microphone. Like you've recorded a few things for me
and it's not quite the way I think it ought
to be. So I'd like to just come down and
just be boots on the ground and just tweak it
for you. And then I'll stay for a bit just
to make sure it works. Same thing with Anchorage, Alaska.
(20:32):
I'd love to see Anchorage, Alaska. I think it would
be a phenomenal place to actually put on my own eyeballs.
You know, you see pictures or a friend of yours
takes a cruise and they do that coastline thing and
they say like, oh, and we saw bears. Yeah, great.
Wonderful story. I would love to actually peep it on
my eyes. So we have station groups there. I get
a chance to do some work there. It's like you
(20:53):
travel and you get to know a little bit about
the communities that you work in. even though you do
it at a distance and you know that you can
be helpful. So that's what I've been up to for
the last, since I left you, that's what I do,
is commercial work all over the place. So every now
and again, you might hear us like, is that the
guy that I used to hear? Like, yes, it is.
(21:14):
And I'm probably selling you a car or windows in
somewhere far, far away. Time for traffic and weather on
the 10s now on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
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From the Clark-Peshkin Trap.
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Cast for today looks pretty nice to start off the
work week. A cool day in store for us today.
Expect highs today mostly in the mid-60s during the afternoon.
For tonight, mainly clear skies and a chilly night will
drop to the upper 40s for overnight lows. And for tomorrow,
partly sunny skies with high temperatures back into the mid-70s
for highs by then. From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority,
(21:48):
I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. on Rochester's news, weather, and traffic station.
News Radio, Web 1180.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
And with a beautiful sunshiny sky, 56 degrees in downtown Rochester,
I'm Joel DeMonaco for Bob Lonsberry on News Radio, Web 1180.
Happy to be joining you. We do have some broadcast
legends coming in, some veterans coming in. Don Alhart and
Gary Smith will be joining me after the news at
9 o'clock. I did want to, though, take a moment
(22:14):
to comment on the fact that– I think it was–
is it over the weekend? Maybe it was Friday or Saturday.
The Rochester Association of Black Journalists held their annual awards ceremony,
and they presented a couple of awards. Their Emerging Journalist
Award went to Stephanie Joseph over for 13WHAM Television. Now,
I don't know Stephanie. I know her work, and she's wonderful.
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And this is, I think, her first gig out of college,
has been working here in Rochester. And she does an
incredible work. So good on her for being recognized by
this organization. But there were two Lifetime Achievement Awards that
were given out. And in case you missed this or
it didn't pop into your algorithm, I just want to
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congratulate them on their work and on their achievement. The
first one is Richard McCullough. Now, Richard is still going strong.
He's still the meteorologist over at another station here in Rochester.
I will say the call letters. It's WDKX. He's still
their chief meteorologist. He was a meteorologist on television as well.
That part of his career, when you talk about a
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guy who's done so much, television, he was a meteorologist.
He's still very passionate about the weather. He's an accomplished videographer.
He's an historian. He's an educator. He's a farmer. Weatherfield
Farm down in Livingston County, he grows tea. Huh, never
would have thought that. And I love the fact that
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he does it and he shares that passion. Congratulations to
Richard on being acknowledged for Lifetime Achievement by the Rochester
Association of Black Journalists. And keep going, honey. You're doing
amazing stuff. And I love to see what you're up to,
especially when he puts on the hat and goes out
in the tea fields. It's just cute. The second person
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who received the Lifetime Achievement Award is Janet Lomax. Now,
I know Janet a little, and I've met her on
a few occasions. There are people who, when they walk
into a room, the energy of that room changes dramatically
and positively. Janet Lomax is that person. Whenever she walks
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into a room, you can feel it. People stop what
they're doing. They turn up. Miss Janet's here. Miss Janet's here.
It's something that is an intangible part of what makes
someone an extraordinary human being, not only extraordinary professional, but
an extraordinary human being. Janet is an absolute doll. I
love her work. Again, I said I don't know her well,
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but I know her well enough to know that I
do exactly the same thing when she walks into a room.
So Janet's here. I have to just go and say hi.
Congratulations to both of them on their achievement. for their careers,
for the legacy they left behind, for those who will
follow in their footsteps. And there are plenty of them
who will look to those people and say, yes, I
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want to be exactly like them. You've set the bar high,
and hopefully all of us can aspire to be the
person that when you walk into the room, the energy
changes for the positive. I'm Joel DeMonaco in for Bob Lonsberry,
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56 degrees with lots of sunshine. It's a nice day.
Play hooky and hang out with us on the radio,
why don't you? It's Monday. You're coming after an exhausting
Bills win. It ages you, I think, maybe a little bit.
Some of the memes that you wind up seeing out
on your socials the day after a back-and-forth Bills win
when they hang on and it comes down to the
end of the fourth quarter, it's like Frazzled Barbie doing
her makeup. That's what I feel like. I feel like
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I just aged a bit after having watched the game.
Also coming in on the socials, I want to say
good morning to John Brown.
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Yo, Joe.
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Little message on the Facebook page. Hi, John. Joe Stockslater.
Number one, why are you up? You work nights, you vampire.
Couldn't find anyone else, huh? No, they couldn't. That's exactly
why I'm here. You realize, of course, how far down
the list of possible fill-ins you have to go. It's like, Well, hell,
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was Kevin Williams not available today? Can we bring Mike
O'Brien back in for another one? He's at least been places.
I go to my basement every day. At least he
gets out and sees people. So, no, there was no
one else here. And it is rare that Bob just
takes a day off here. But I think it's warranted.
He can go out and he can have– he has
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to have a life outside of here. He loves spending
time with you. He loves sharing stories with you. He
loves all of that. But sometimes you got to bring
in the B team. And that's the thing. After not
doing this for a few years and then coming back
into to sit behind a microphone in a live setting,
you know, because normally in my day to day, I
get a chance to do take twos or take tens.
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If I'm not happy with something, I can finesse the
living bejeebers out of it until I am just exactly
where I want to be. In this setting, it's like,
all right, there you go. So when they called me,
I knew it's like I could smell the desperation on you.
But what they said is, so we want Gary and
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we want Don to do the show. And I said, okay,
that's perfect. Absolutely. I don't have to do much talking.
I just have to throw them the questions and let
them go, which will happen. You will see. We are
going to run out of time before we run out
of topics. But I said, really, this is where you
are right now. You can't just let the two of
them go. No, you need to bring me in for
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some trifecta from hell. So there we go. So now
it's my time to come back in. And I tell
you what, I know exactly how this is going to go.
I'm going to feel like it's clicking, like I am
really feeling good about it. At like 11.56, I'm going
to feel really good about it. It's like Gary can
attest to this. It's like the 18th hole. When you
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know coming in, it's like if you're playing at Greystone.
You play at Greystone, and the guys stand up on
a balcony that overlooks the 18th hole at Greystone. And
you either get one of two reactions. They either harangue
the living hell out of you because you shank a
shot or put it in the water. Or they cheer
you on because you got that mid-iron on the green
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and it held. Maybe you've got a 60-foot putt to make.
But still, you got it on the green and they
cheer you on. And that makes you think, you know what,
I've had an absolutely horrific round to this point. But
doggone it, I'm going to finish this one up. I'm
going to tell stories about how I got cheered in
the 18th hole at Greystone. And I am going to
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pay good money to go and do this nonsense. again. Now, granted,
I didn't have to pay for the ability to do
this nonsense again, but I am so happy that I'm
going to be able to do it. Don Elhart is here.
Gary Smith is here. I'm here. I'm Joe Lomonaco. I
am so happy to be your conversation facilitator as we
get set to get into the meat. On the rest
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of this program, Joel DeMonaco for Bob Lonsbury on NewsRadio
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