Some reflections on The Best Show on WFMU as it ends its thirteen-year run.
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The Best Show on WFMU: 2000-2013
On Radio: “Mirth, Music, and Mayhem”: In Praise of The Best Show on WFMU
Broadcast over Jersey City’s listener-supported radio station WFMU, The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling is what happens when many of commercial radio’s most noxious elements—bizarre callers, comedy routines, running gags, and irascible hosts—transform and coalesce into a singularly entertaining program perfectly calibrated for cult attraction.
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