The JOE KELLY Show           
Behind the Scenes!!

Local author and historian Malio Cardarelli and Joe Kelly are all smiles because they have just finished taping the show and now they can relax and talk more about a subject both of them love - local history.

Chris Thornton, director of the Joe Kelly Show, at the dials in the control room.

Usually Chris Ford, left, and Al Williams are in the control room or behind a camera helping to produce the show. Here they are in front of the camera.

Frank Tomaino
after his appearance
on the Show

Joe kept Ron Pytko in the studio long after the show was finished so that he could spend more time looking at Ron's collection of Utica pictures.

Joe and Malio Cardarelli, author of McConnell Field Via East Utica

Joe and Janice Williams, director of the Falling Leaves Road Race, taken just after they finished taping Sunday's special "same day coverage" of the Falling Leaves Road Race.

Joe making some notes prior to Sunday's show.

The Joe Kelly Show is taped every Tuesday afternoon in the studios of WUTR on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield. The director of the show is Chris Thornton. Dave Martin is behind the camera. Chris Ford handles audio from the control room.  Al Williams and Tom Geise are also part of the behind the scenes crew.
 
The show's guests include politicians, authors, community activists, educators, historians, sports figures and officials from local institutions such as the Oneida County Historical Society, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Boilermaker Road Race, Oneida Indian Nation. Past guests have included Gov. George Pataki, Utica Mayor Tim Julian, former Oneida County Executive Ralph Eannace, former Rome mayor and current County Executive Joe Griffo; local authors such as John Briant, Denny Griffen, historians such as Frank Tomaino and Oneida County Historical Society President Kevin Marken and several superintendents of Fort Stanwix; sports figures such as runners Bill Rodgers and Frank Shorter, and Jeff Idelson and Bruce Markenson, both officials of the National Baseball Hall of Fame;
 
The show is broadcast Sunday nights at 11 o'clock on WUTR an ABC affiliate.