Friday, January 30, 2015

Philly Radio: 94WIP Signs Tony Bruno For PM Drive

Tony Bruno
Sports talker Tony Bruno is returning to Philly airwaves for a new show in afternoon drive on CBS Radio's WIP 94.1 FM.   He and Josh Innes will team for Innes & Bruno to fill the 1 to 6pm air slot vacated in December by Anthony Gargano. (See posting: Click Here)

Bruno was last heard on crosstown rival Greater Media's WPEN 97.5 FM The Fanatic.  Brunoe departed in June 2014 during contract talks.

Bruno is a sports radio veteran who onece hosted general talk at WCAU 1210 AM in Philadelphia and on KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles as fill-in host. When WCAU abandoned talk in 1991 Bruno returned to Sports Talk as a co-host of 610 WIP's Morning Guys show with Angelo Cataldi and Al Morganti.

WIP's Josh Innes
In 1995, Bruno joined ESPN Radio full-time and co-hosted the Bruno-Golic Morning Show with former NFL Player Mike Golic. (Bruno left the morning show in 1999 and was replaced by current co-host Mike Greenberg.)

In 2000, Bruno moved to Los Angeles, launching the Fox Sports Radio network. Prior to heading west to California, Bruno hosted a morning show on WDAE 620 AM in Tampa. Bruno would eventually be unable to come to a contract renewal agreement with Fox.

In 2006, he signed with Sporting News Radio. In 2008, Bruno also did a daily half-hour with Gary Radnich on the Gary Radnich Show on KNBR 680 AM in San Francisco.

On September 29, 2008 Bruno got a new show called Into The Night with Tony Bruno on KLAC 570 AM in L-A.

On July 30, 2009, Premiere Radio Networks announced it had partnered with The Content Factory to distribute Bruno's show across the Fox Sports Radio network.

On January 18, 2010, Bruno, paired with Harry Mayes, returned to a daily two hour show  on The Fanatic in Philadelphia. On June 26, 2014 Tony Bruno announced on his Facebook page that he had resigned from 97.5 The Fanatic due to a contractual issue.

Innes joined WIP from sister Sports KILT-610 AM in Houston last year.

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