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A fact from Wally Phillips appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2008, and was viewed approximately 2,260 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that at the height of Wally Phillips' radio career, roughly half the entire Chicago listening audience, or about 1.5 million listeners, tuned into his show?

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Saturday Night Live[edit]

I remember a Saturday Night Live sketch about Wally Phillip's show - I don't know if it was called WGN, or used real names. It was a Chicago morning show that was for sure intended to be his show, this was where I got my first interest in his show. I knew of it already, but seldom listened to the show until the Saturday Night Live version aired. I have the DVD sets season one and two and have not found it there - must be a year between then and 1979..?? Kidsheaven (talk) 23:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC

Actually found link to the transcript WGN Dick Lanky - a sort of Wally Phillips - or crossed with others from WGN

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78llanky.phtml

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78odaley.phtml

They used the station WGN name - I don't know where the name comes from, but has similarity in the show to Wally Phillips show.Kidsheaven (talk) 21:15, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More info[edit]

Here's some nice info about Wally. [1] Nobody of Consequence (talk) 13:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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