Carney on WAKR this week

Retired BJ reporter Jim Carney is on WAKR 1590 this week from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday’s guests were BJ publisher Mark Cohen; Edie Deyarmin, mother of Lance Cpl. Daniel Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., killed in Iraq in 2005; Duane Crabbs of South Street Ministries; marathon runners Zeke Petrie and Andre Travis.

Jim was a radio guy before he began his BJ career. Jim retired in May after 35 years at Ol’ Blue.

Jim is subbing for Jasen Sokol, a Baldwin Wallace grad and Kent State grad assistant who was producer of WKSU’s “Morning Edition” before migrating to WAKR.

The radio gig will give Jim something to do while he waits for wife Katie Byard, a BJ reporter, to get a flight home from Paris. Hopefully, this time her plane won’t have to return to Paris after nearly reaching Iceland.