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<p id="eow-description"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Courtesy: Tom Buckley, &#8220;eyeontv&#8221;) The Joy Boys, Eddie Walker &; Willard Scott, host their final show at 4001 Nebraska Avenue on Friday afternoon, October 6th, 1972. Gordon Peterson sits-in.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ultimate thanks to Dave Statter, ( <a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" title="http://STATter911.com" href="http://statter911.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://STATter911.com</a> ) for finding this clip.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Visit <a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" title="http://TheJoyBoys.com" href="http://thejoyboys.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://TheJoyBoys.com</a> for everything you&#8217;d ever want to know about the legendary radio team.</span></p>
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<p><em><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From Dave Statter:</span></strong></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">WTOP reports Ed Walker died just three hours after his final <a href="https://wamu.org/ed_walker" target="_blank">&#8220;The Big Broadcast&#8221; last night on WAMU Radio. </a>Ed was a wonderful man and a great broadcaster who had an amazing knowledge of radio history and music. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While at Channel 9, I discovered this 1972 film of Ed and Willard Scott&#8217;s final broadcast as The Joy Boys on WRC (with Gordon Peterson reporting). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It had been dubbed to video but was not identified. I turned it over to <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/tombuckley9" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1380894992">Tom Buckley</a> who always makes sure broadcasting history is preserved (and that&#8217;s why we are able to see it today). The Joy Boys were extremely funny and made great radio. Ed Walker will be missed.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_9862" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-9862" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ed-Walker-in-1994-WAMU-photo-by-Anthony-Washington.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9862" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ed-Walker-in-1994-WAMU-photo-by-Anthony-Washington-300x169.jpg" alt="Ed Walker in 1994 WAMU photo by Anthony Washington" width="300" height="169" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-9862" class="wp-caption-text">Ed Walker in 1994 WAMU photo by Anthony Washington</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.</h2>
<h4><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ed-Walker-in-July-2009-Marcus-Yam-The-Washington-Post1.jpg">From The Washington Post:</a></h4>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ed Walker didn’t really want to do it. He was tired and sick, he said, and not really up to it. Besides, his voice — the instrument of his preposterously long radio career — was no longer what it had been.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Just once more, pleaded Lettie Holman, Walker’s boss. For the audience, she said. For posterity. His daughter, Susan Walker Scola, agreed, urging her father on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Walker reconsidered. Okay, he said. One more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So they assembled last week to record one more, the last of the untold thousands of radio programs Walker has done since he broke into radio as a college student 65 years ago, when Harry Truman was president. Holman was there for the final show, as were audio engineer Tobey Schreiner and a couple of Walker’s radio associates, Rob Bamberger and Bob Bybee. The vehicle was “The Big Broadcast,” the weekly radio-nostalgia program that Walker has hosted for the past 25 years on Washington public station WAMU (88.5 FM).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The setting was Room 623 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. Walker, 83 and battling cancer, had been there a week. He did the show in a hospital gown, connected to a bank of hospital monitors. He insisted on getting out of bed to sit upright. An old pro knows you sound better that way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of ‘The Big Broadcast,’ ” he began one last time. “My name is Ed Walker.” ..<em><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ed-walker-spent-65-years-on-the-radio-his-last-program-was-unlike-any-other/2015/10/22/13f37a3e-783b-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html" target="_blank">..MORE</a></strong></em></span></p>
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