{"id":1998927,"date":"2025-09-05T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1998927"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:21:27","slug":"brother-weases-surprise-exit-sparks-outpouring-from-fans-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brother-weases-surprise-exit-sparks-outpouring-from-fans-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother Wease\u2019s surprise exit sparks outpouring from fans online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After Brother Wease announced he was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/radio-icon-brother-wease-abruptly-172727844.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:hosting his final radio show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">hosting his final radio show<\/a> on air on Thursday, Sept. 4, people shared well wishes for the Rochester radio icon on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wease, host of The Wease Show on WAIO-FM (95.1), an iHeartMedia station known as Radio 95.1, was the first Rochester radio personality to be inducted into the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2021\/08\/30\/rochester-ny-brother-wease-inducted-into-radio-hall-fame\/5614673001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Museum of Broadcast Communications Radio Hall of Fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Museum of Broadcast Communications Radio Hall of Fame<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 and is also a member of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/brother-wease-garth-fagan-among-082014973.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rochester Music Hall of Fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Rochester Music Hall of Fame<\/a>, inducted in 2023, and the New York State Broadcasters Association&#8217;s Hall of Fame as of 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s how social media is responding to Brother Wease&#8217;s sudden departure.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Who is Brother Wease?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Alan Levin, better known as &#8216;Brother Wease&#8217; at WCMF in 2000.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wease, whose real name is Alan Levin,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/decades-brother-wease-moving-later-160737238.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:started in radio in 1983;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">started in radio in 1983<\/a>\u00a0as an advertising salesman at Rochester classic rock station WCMF-FM (96.5). The Vietnam War combat veteran took over a late-night slot in 1984 and moved to mornings in 1985 as the host of &#8220;The Brother Wease Morning Circus,&#8221; which became one of the most highly rated programs in the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He shared his life, including a cancer diagnosis and treatment, with listeners \u2014 and he shared the spotlight with a rotating cast of characters. A number of personalities who got their start on the show went on to become huge stars in other markets, including Greg \u201cOpie\u201d Hughes, BJ Shea and Stephanie Miller, who was known to Rochester listeners as \u201cSister Sleaze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In late 2007 after Entercom\u00a0bought WCMF, contract talks between Wease and the company broke off. He disappeared from local radio at the start of 2008, and a no-compete clause in his old contract kept him off the air until November of that year, when he took over as morning show host on Radio 95.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2023, Wease requested to move the early morning show from 6 to 9 a.m. to the 9 a.m.-noon timeslot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wease was the first Rochester radio personality to be inducted into the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2021\/08\/30\/rochester-ny-brother-wease-inducted-into-radio-hall-fame\/5614673001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Museum of Broadcast Communications Radio Hall of Fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Museum of Broadcast Communications Radio Hall of Fame<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 and is also a member of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/brother-wease-garth-fagan-among-082014973.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rochester Music Hall of Fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Rochester Music Hall of Fame<\/a>, inducted in 2023, and the New York State Broadcasters Association&#8217;s Hall of Fame as of 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong>What we know now: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/radio-icon-brother-wease-abruptly-172727844.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Radio icon Brother Wease abruptly announces final show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Radio icon Brother Wease abruptly announces final show<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Brother Wease abruptly announces final show: What people are saying on social media<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Contributing: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reporter Marcia Greenwood<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Emily Barnes\u00a0<em>reports<\/em><\/em>\u00a0<em>on consumer-related issues for the USA TODAY Network\u2019s New York Connect Team, focusing on scam and recall-related topics. Follow her on X and Instagram\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByEmilyBarnes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@byemilybarnes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@byemilybarnes<\/a>.\u00a0Get in touch at\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/mailto:ebarnes@gannett.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:ebarnes@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ebarnes@gannett.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2025\/09\/05\/brother-wease-surprise-exit-sparks-outpouring-from-fans-online-rochester-ny\/85977502007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brother Wease\u2019s surprise exit sparks outpouring from fans online;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brother Wease\u2019s surprise exit sparks outpouring from fans online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Brother Wease announced he was hosting his final radio show on air on Thursday, Sept. 4, people shared well wishes for the Rochester radio icon on social media. Wease, host of The Wease Show on WAIO-FM (95.1), an iHeartMedia station known as Radio 95.1, was the first Rochester radio personality to be inducted into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[362768,362764,351529,340735,362767,362765,362766],"class_list":["post-1998927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alan-levin","tag-brother-wease","tag-radio-personality","tag-radio-show","tag-rochester-music-hall-of-fame","tag-rochester-radio","tag-wease-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brother-Weases-surprise-exit-sparks-outpouring-from-fans-online.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}