Toledo Radio: Tom Joyner Tour Stops At WIMX

Anthony Brown, Sybil Wilkes, Tom Joyner

Radio personality Tom Joyner, is living up to his reputation as the “hardest working man in radio.”

His nationally syndicated radio program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, was broadcast live across the country from Toledo on Tuesday morning and this was just one stop on his trek across the nation to meet and greet his listeners, according to The Toledo Blade.

“When we go to places like Toledo and all the places that we visit, we get so much love and the love feeds the energy and you can’t help but have enough energy but to keep doing this,” Joyner said.

Joyner and his morning crew, comedian J. Anthony Brown and co-host Sybil Wilkes, arrived in Toledo on Monday afternoon after spending the day in Cleveland. They were greeted by hundreds of fans at a happy hour event. Then, on Tuesday, after broadcasting from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m from Toledo affiliate WIMX 95.7 FM MIX, Joyner received a proclamation from U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo).

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The morning team then attended a reception with about 50 Toledo community leaders.  Joyner and company then dashed off to lunch with about 100 more listeners at Hollywood Casino Toledo.

He is also nicknamed, “The Fly Jock”, because he commuted between his morning job in Dallas and an afternoon job in Chicago every weekday for eight years. He took his show into national syndication in 1994 with ABC Radio Networks and, according to his website, has more than eight million listeners on 105 stations.

Brown said the station has broadcast Joyner’s syndicated show in Toledo for more than 14 years and his media company, REACH Media, also owns the syndicated program that airs during the afternoon on the station, The D.L Hughley Show, which also airs on WIMX.