Elvis Duran and the Morning Show is an American syndicated weekday morning radio program hosted by Elvis Duran. The show originates from the studios of Newark-licensed WHTZ in New York City, a Top 40 outlet branded as "Z100". The show is also syndicated through Premiere Radio Networks in over 75 markets such as Philadelphia, Miami, Cleveland, and Richmond, Virginia. The live show is available in Canada via Sirius XM Canada. The live airing of the show is weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. Eastern time, with most Central markets airing it live from 5 to 9 a.m., and other time zones further west taking the show on delay. Some stations, including WAZR, KCRZ, and WXXX, air a 5am "pre-show" before the actual show. A "best of the week" compilation show is also carried on Saturday mornings by most stations.
History
While it was not created at WHTZ, the popular "Morning Zoo" format became a widely employed morning show concept based on its success at Z100 - even to the point of being implemented at WHTZ's sister station in Cleveland, rock-formatted WMMS. Essentially, the Morning Zoo formula was grafted onto their already successful morning show, and lasted until 1994. The regular segments of the program include the gossip-heavy "Entertainment Report", "Phone Taps", song parodies, and various contests. Local windows are made available for news briefs and weather, traffic reports and music. The show began to be syndicated to other Clear Channel stations on May 22, 2006, starting with WHYI-FM Fort Lauderdale/Miami, then WIOQ Philadelphia on July 22, 2008, and WAKS Cleveland on August 25, 2008, with approximately 75 stations now carrying the show after Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks began to offer the program nationally in March 2009. Until May 2008 the show was known as "Elvis Duran and The Morning Zoo". until July 2008 and the addition of more stations, the word "Zoo" was replaced with "Show" to be more generic and to not conflict with other morning shows in other potential affiliate cities that might have a "Zoo" show John Bell left the show on March 22, 2010. Carolina Bermudez left the show on June 22, 2012 to join CBS-owned WLNY-TV in the New York area to launch their new morning program, Live from the Couch. TJ Taormina left on February 21, 2013 to host the morning show at WODS Boston, with Loren Raye joining him a month later. On January 19, 2016, it was announced that Carla Marie and "Worst Assistant" Anthony would be leaving the show on February 5, 2016, and starting their own morning show on Seattle's Top 40/CHR station, Power 93.3FM. Bethany Watson left on February 16, 2018 to pursue various acting and writing projects. The show announced on July 27, 2018 that Medha Gandhi would be joining the show from Kiss 108 in Boston. Her first official day was September 17, 2018. It was announced on September 25, 2019 that Greg T would be leaving the show to join Carolina Bermudez on WKTU as Co-Host of the new 'Carolina With Greg T In The Morning Show'. His last day was on October 7, 2019.
