Before morning television, podcasts, and endless scrolling, millions of Americans began the day with Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club. Today on Daybreak, we listen across the years—from the Hotel Sherman to the final broadcast from Chicago’s Allerton Hotel—and ask what made this remarkably simple, warm and human program endure for more than three decades.
We’ll also look in on today’s Newman Guide Virtual College Fair and consider an idea close to the heart of Daybreak: sometimes good radio isn’t really about programming at all. It’s about having someone familiar there when the day begins.
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