D-C Radio: Mary Walter EXITS N/T WMAL

WMAL 105.9 FM “Mornings on the Mall” co-host Mary Walter has announced she’s leaving the show and station.

It's official! Today was my last day on @WMALDC. It was a great (but exhausting) ride! I will miss my WMAL family terribly.
It came down to going back to commuting between MD & NJ & hubby & I decided that quality of life was more important than $$.

— Mary Walter (@MaryWalterRadio) May 13, 2021

A native of New Jersey, Walter got her start in radio after winning a contest. She was listening to WKXW 101.5 FM out of Trenton, New Jersey when she heard they were holding a contest to determine who would "take over" the relationship show, "The Passion Phones". She called in "on a whim" and a week later had the job. She was there five years before being "summarily fired", three weeks after being congratulated on her ratings and being presented a performance bonus.

Walter, Coglianese

Walter was later hired to host the morning show on WCTC 1450 AM in New Brunswick, New Jersey, which she did for four years as “Mary in the Morning” — the first female anchor of a morning show in the state.  She then joined a "short-lived" syndicated show. When WKXW sold, the new owners asked her to return as host of the relationship show. Walter did both shows for "a couple of months" until she "finally got tired of working for the syndicated show for free."

Walter was back at WKXW for five more years until they fired her again. From 2008 to 2014 she was a commentator on the Fox News Channel, and from 2006 she has guest hosted on Fox News Talk (radio) for Brian Kilmeade and John Gibson.

In 2015, Walter was hired by iHeartMedia’s N/T WHAS 840 AM Louisville, Kentucky. Walter joined WMAL’s morning show in early 2017, first co-hosting with Brian Wilson and then Vince Coglianese.