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Magic 98 welcomes the Broadway musical "Mary Poppins" to Overture Center. It's the stage version of one of Disn...
Magic 98 again brings you affordable family movie time with the Kids Dream Winter Movie Series at Madison's Eastgate and ...
Magic 98 celebrates one of music's biggest albums...Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", the expanded edition.It feat...
Magic 98 warms up a cold winter weekend with your chance to win tickets to "Sizzlin' 60s" Live Band Review now ...
Sunday is theday to take a deep breath and maybe spend a little time on yourself. Let Magic Sunday Morning provide the music....
"Ferdie's Inferno"onFriday nights...$3.99 albumsat Treasure Island...Clyde Coffee on WISM.That was 1970s Ma...
The former WISM-FMbecame "Magic 98" WMGNonDecember 1st, 1983. WISM-AMhad been Madison's most popular radio stat...
I grew up in: Cleveland, OHFirst radio job: WFRO - Fremont, OH - 1971Fifth radio job: WISM 1480 - Madison, WI - 1975Magic 98 ...
I grew up in: Madison.First radio station job: WISM in 1967.Year of Magic debut: 2006.Did you know? I almost went into the pr...
I grew up in: Middleton, WIYear of Magic debut:1997The first radio station I worked at was:WHAAM 970 Madison, also known as W...
Wednesday, 8/8/12Mother Nature must have been in a creative mood this morning. A beautiful streak of red across the sky gave ...
I grew up in: Polo, IL - home of the Polo Marcos!Year of Magic debut: 1986. Perhaps I should just round up and say 1990 so th...
Pat & Bob first day together on-airThe Magic 98 Morning Show is hosted by Pat O'Neill and Bob Bonner. You can reach the g...
Blog Posts
I wonder if there is a name for people like me who never watch TV? I realize that is a very tempting sentence to start out a ...
We have been doing Five at Five every weekday afternoon at 5:00 since way back in the 1960s. (OK, well maybe not that long, b...
Bob Bonner has no idea that his “radio character” is based on another Wisconsin broadcaster, Michael Wegner of Os...
A friend invited me to join Twitter right after Twitter was founded in 2006. Because I couldn't figure out what it would ...
While I’ve been laid up waiting for my ankle to heal I have been reading like a fiend. My neighbor brought me a book wh...
Because of my broken ankle I have to live on the first floor of my house. I don't have any television sets on the first f...
Last year I was invited to be in the Fanny Garver Gallery for the ReStore Salvage Art Show fundraiser, and this year I am thr...
I have a good memory for meaningless stuff. Our phone number when I was a kid was 835-3074. “All In the Family” d...
Some people knit or do crossword puzzles for fun, I am just nutty about Pinterest. I have just added a new board "Magic ...
In the spring of 2000, Ann and I moved to Madison, back home to Wisconsin after several years of living in Iowa and Illinois....
I've spent most of my adult life as either a radio DJ or a writer or both. Neither of them is a bad way to make a living,...
The more I read about this story the more improbable it seems.Two couples, working together in the glare of the showbiz spotl...
I trust you had a great holiday season. We did a bit of "staycationing" and thoroughly enjoyed it. The plan was to ...
Monday, 12/31/12We spent Christmas with my sister-in-law and her family in Virginia. We decided to drive, which is always a r...
Tuesday, 8/28/12Last week my wife and I went to the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee to see the Dukes of September, starring Do...
Each of us knows things that really don't matter to us. For example, I know that Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West are...
Thursday, 8/9/12Being able to be one of the hosts for this years Concert on the Square was reallyquite wonderful. Jim Bartlet...
12/28/07JD Barber hosted Madison's top-rated morning show of the 1980s on Z104. When I learned of his death this morning,...
12/6/08It was freezing on Friday afternoon, and I was whipped after a long week. I got home by 3PM and treated myself to a ra...
Friday, 2/24/12They always say that one should try new things...even if at first they may sound a bit uncomfortable. I have n...
A few weeks ago I told you about my nephew's lethal diagnosis of Thanotophoric Dysplasia. My brother and sister-in-law ha...
We recently upgraded the video capability at our house so we can stream directly from the Internet in addition to watching sa...
