Wired 96.5 New Morning Show Host is Chunky, He's Some Dude Who Worked at Pat's

-From Wired 96.5 "We're starting a morning show. We're seriously bored of just giving away prizes & playing music in the morning. SO WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES... to recruit our sales girl Ghia & our dude that makes our Cheesesteaks at Pat's Chunky (against our boss's wishes). He wanted us to just shut up and play music... we want to give you more! 

OK, enough of that... Wired 96.5 has hired Chunky (a real radio personality), the former XHTZ San Diego morning man for AM drive duties replacing "Chio in the Morning." He has also hosted nights at 92.3 Now FM in New York and Channel 955 in Detroit. He will be joined by Ghia from WBLI Long Island, producer JP, and morning show holdover Tingle and his crew of voices on the morning show.

Chunky commented on his latest market stop, "Getting the opportunity to host mornings in a Top-10 market is a dream come true for me. The fact that it is mornings at Wired 96.5 is icing on the big-ass cake." Ghia added, "I'm super excited to share a studio with such talented people! Big thank you to the Beasley Broadcasting family for believing in me and giving me my dream job! Now it's time to kick ass in Philly!"

Chio of the Wired 96.5 Morning Show Fired

Morning drive host Chio of "Chio in the Morning" was given his release from Wired 96.5 (WRDW). His former co-hosts Shila and Tingle will continue to host the morning show until a main host is hired. Chio wanted his listeners to know that he did not just resign, as is the standard terminology used in the radio industry when a deejay is let go because of poor ratings. He was fired.

Chio said in an interview that he didn’t know what was next for him, but he is on the lookout for radio gigs all over the world. “Philly is my home and I’d love to stay. I would love to be in the ranks of Jerry Blavat, Hy Lit and Butterball … but at the end of the day, I have to put food on table.”  Chio’s contract is not up until June so WRDW and Beasley Broadcasting will pay him until then to sit on the sidelines. Chio had been a part of the Philly radio scene since 1995, when he brought in as on-air personality at Q102.