After 31 years behind the microphone at SportsRadio 94WIP, Glen Macnow hosted his final Sunday show over the weekend with his partner Jody McDonald. Macnow still has one more shift on the schedule which will happen next Saturday and then that is it for the longtime member of the station’s air staff.
As they started their final show together, Macnow said, “Well, after three decades and thousands of shows together, Jody Mc, this is the final one where it will just be the two of us.”
Macnow talked about their time together and mentioned how while he bounced around from middays to evenings back to middays to afternoon drive and then to the weekends the last two years, McDonald had left and come back more than once.
“I just want to say as we begin this show today, we will be back together next Saturday in what will be my final, final show at 94WIP,” Macnow said. “Coming into the show, I really want to say that you, Jody McDonald, have been a terrific partner, have been a guide for me at times, always a friend. And I appreciate everything about you. I am going to very much miss doing this with you on the air.”
McDonald is not buying that next weekend will be Macnow’s final show on the station.
“Are you telling me you’re never going to do a show again on WIP after next weekend?” he asked. “If Rod Lakin calls you in October and says someone is sick and we need you to fill in. You’re going to say no? It’s going to be the last regularly scheduled show, that I get, but don’t tell these people you’re never going to show up on WIP again. I know you better than that. You’re not moving to Istanbul or anything.”
“I don’t know,” Macnow replied. “I have honestly not discussed that with Rod Lakin. I told him I’m retiring; he shook my hand and said, ‘Good Luck.’…It is not part of my future plans. Remaining on the air at WIP really isn’t something I have considered.”
When he announced this would be happening in April, Macnow calculated that he has hosted approximately 6,5000 shows on WIP and spoke into the station’s microphones for more than 25,000 hours.
“For more than 31 years – 20 of them as a full-time host and the last 11 of them on weekends – I have had the pleasure of sitting in these studios sharing my thoughts on Philadelphia sports, celebrating and suffering with this marvelous fanbase,” Macnow said in April. “I worked with talented partners and producers, I have wrestled with bosses and always tried to be honest in my opinions. I’ve had the privilege of seeing amazing performances on the field, on the ice [and] on the court. I got to broadcast two championship parades – and to be honest, I thought there were going to be more of those, but I’ll take two – and now it’s time to put down the headset.”
