Longtime WMAL Morning Host Frank Harden Has Died

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Longtime WMAL Morning Host Frank Harden Has Died
Posted on June 16, 2018


John Matthews
WMAL.com

WASHINGTON — Frank Harden, one-half of the greatest radio team the Nation’s Capital has ever seen, died Friday at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 95.

Together with his on-air partner, Jackson Weaver, Harden created Harden and Weaver, a ratings and revenue-generating juggernaut of a morning show that drove WMAL to the top of Washington’s radio business for more than three decades.

From the show’s inception in 1960 until Jackson Weaver’s death in 1992, Harden played amiable straight man to Weaver’s jocular cast of characters, most notably, “the Senator,” who with pinpoint accuracy poked friendly fun at the bureaucracy of Washington while introducing the daily 7:25 am morning march. Yes, WMAL did play a daily march – and for many years, a 6:55 am hymn as well!