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‘We Are The Joy Boys’: Willard Scott Remembers Co-Host, Friend Ed Walker Walker passed away this week, just hours after his last The Big Broadcast aired Sunday night. Willard Scott was one of Walker’s best friends. Starting in the early 1950s, the...

‘We Are The Joy Boys’: Willard Scott Remembers Co-Host, Friend Ed Walker 

Walker passed away this week, just hours after his last The Big Broadcast aired Sunday night. Willard Scott was one of Walker’s best friends. Starting in the early 1950s, the two men were household names on the radio in Washington and ever since their lives have been closely intertwined… Scott has plenty of stories about Walker. Like the time Scott taught Walker to drive. [more]

Above: Ed Walker gets a kiss from Willard Scott at the Radio Hall of Fame ceremony honoring Walker in 2010. Walker was voted into the hall in 2009.

  1. fragglevision reblogged this from broadcastarchive-umd and added:
    This is beautiful. I want everyone to have at least one friend who will be like this.
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