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Billy King Will Be Co-Hosting the WIP Morning Show
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Just in time for basketball season, the 94 WIP morning show has a new host.
Former Sixers President and General Manager Billy King will join Angelo Cataldi and company as a part time, in-studio guy who appears on the program a few times per week. It’s similar to the way Keith Jones and Hollis Thomas appear/appeared on the show.
King was on the show Tuesday morning via phone call and introduced by Cataldi as a “regular co host and contributor, one of the smartest people we’ve ever met in sports.” He worked for the Sixers from 1997 to 2007 before being replaced by Ed Stefanski.
It’s a move that makes a lot of sense. The morning show doesn’t have a basketball person, not unless Jon Johnson is covering for Angelo. 97.5 the Fanatic has the Sixers’ radio rights and former Daily News writer Bob Cooney co-hosts Marc Farzetta’s show, so this gives WIP a morning counterpart and some muscle in the hoops department.
Here’s King’s Tuesday audio:
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com