WAMU 88.5 Bids Farewell To Eddie Stubbs

Based on his many commitments, and given the opportunity for WAMU 88.5 to extend its news programming to seven days a week, Eddie Stubbs and WAMU 88.5 have mutually agreed to discontinue The Eddie Stubbs Show, which began airing in 1990 in Washington, D.C. A special farewell edition of The Eddie Stubbs Show will air on Sunday, April 15 at 3 p.m.

"17 years is a tremendous run, and I'm pleased with that and proud of it," Stubbs said. "I would not be doing what I'm doing today in the music business had it not been for WAMU. The station has been nothing but good to me since 1984. This is a big chapter of my life coming to an end, but having Weekend Edition Sunday on WAMU is a responsible broadcasting decision that I understand and support. I look forward to possible future opportunities to work with the station."

Eddie Stubbs first took to the WAMU 88.5 airwaves as a fill-in host in April 1984; The Eddie Stubbs Show debuted in January 1990. An accomplished fiddle player, in 1995, he accepted an offer to become part of Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright's band, the Tennessee Mountain Boys, and moved to Nashville. WAMU 88.5 supported his decision and agreed to continue airing The Eddie Stubbs Show on tape each week. Today, in addition to his taped show on WAMU 88.5, Stubbs is on the air in Nashville six nights a week on WSM, and on stage two nights a week as an announcer for the Grand Ole Opry.

A special farewell edition of The Eddie Stubbs Show aired on Sunday, April 15. It can also be heard on WAMU 88.5's Bluegrass Country through Friday, April 20.