Boston radio ‘icon’ Matt Siegel, ‘Matty in the Morning,’ inducted into the nationwide Radio Corridor of Fame

Boston radio nice Matt Siegel, the longtime host of “Matty in the Morning,” has lastly gotten the decision to the nationwide Radio Corridor of Fame.

Siegel — a staple on Kiss 108 for greater than 40 years — is one in every of eight new inductees into the Radio Corridor of Fame, based on the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

“I am greatly honored to have been inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame,” Matty within the Morning posted on social media.

“For those of you who stayed with me and my little radio show all these years, I can’t thank you enough,” the account added.

Final month, Siegel posted that he had but once more been nominated for the Radio Corridor of Fame.

“Fourth in a row,” he wrote. “They have to let me in… Right?????”

After Siegel retired in 2022, the Kiss 108 “Matty in the Morning” present was rebranded to “Billy and Lisa in the Morning” with Billy Costa and Lisa Donovan.

They congratulated Siegel throughout Tuesday’s present, as Donovan known as him a “radio icon.”

“Forty-plus years, one of the biggest and best morning shows in the country,” Costa stated. “Congratulations to Matt.”

Siegel was beforehand inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Corridor of Fame.

He began on Boston radio as a fill-in for Charles Laquidara on WBCN in 1977, based on his bio. Siegel was then employed because the station’s noon host by 1980. He additionally hosted “5 All Night, Live All Night” on WCVB-TV.

Siegel was employed by WXKS-FM in 1980, and took over the morning present there the following 12 months.

In Might 2022, he introduced his retirement after greater than 40 years on the air.