Approx 5-1-1953 until sometime around 9-25-1954(?)
Weekdays at 11:30pm - "Mission Midnight"
Saturdays - 2:00 pm to either 4:30 or 5:00 pm -
This may have been to host a weekly live broadcast of a concert on which he acted as commentator.
Shep left Philadelphia and moved back to Cincinnati for about a year before moving to New York to work at WOR where he remained for 22 years.
Fan Comments
[ Courtesy: Bill Myers - 10-13-2015 ]
Bill Myers who worked at WLW from 1952 to 1982
Joan Frances Interview (Photo below):
Bill says that on the back of the photo it says "Frasquita Carmen." And clipped to it was a note:
WLW Broadcast Box-- Conductor, Nicholas Rescigno and singer, Joan Francis interviewed by WLW commentator Jean Shepherd
Promotional Glass:
According to Bill, "It was one of probably two dozen that WLW radio and WLWT television (Cincinnati) offered to listeners / viewers in the summer of 1954. They were called the WLW Sunburst glasses. Each one pictured a different WLW radio or television personality, complete with his or her autograph, along with the signatures of various other personalities.
