The Bozo Show (WDOSP)

The Bozo Show is a local version of the Bozo the Clown franchise for Harrisburg, PA and broadcasts on WDOSP. The series original ran from 1976 until 2000, when the station became an ABN affiliate and ABN cancelled the series. However the series did return in 2002 with a completely different format.

1976-2000
In 1976, Kayla Herbert, original owner of WDOSP, using a bank loan, bought the Harrisburg license for Bozo the Clown. While she and Larry Harmon looked for someone to play Bozo while Kayla created characters and sketched up ideas, she saw Zack Leal, a local comedian, making fun of clowns in a comedy act. Soon, she brought Zack to Larry, leading to Larry selecting Zack as the Harrisburg Bozo. After gaining a Bozo costume, the show take form. Other characters include, but are not limited to, Jenna, a anthropomorphic Irish fox (currently played by Zack's daughter Elizabeth) who is Bozo's love interest, and who sings songs for the audience, Professor Wonkytonk (currently played by Jack Valquez) who invents gadgets for Bozo, and "a cast of millions." The Jenna costume was produced by Shafton, Inc. of North Hollywood in California. In 2000, when an ABN affiliation was brought onboard, ABN management cancelled the show, deciding that it did not fit ABN's programming direction.

2002-Present
Eventually, in 2002, the show returned after much meddling with ABN executives. Zack Leal jokingly stated in a interview about the show's return "Now Jenna and the others are out of unemployment." Currently, The Bozo Show is used to broadcast programs from ABN Kids and Toonopolis on the WDOSP main feed. In 2014, the original Jenna costume used by her actresses over the years was retired and donated to the Pennsylvania Museum of Music & Broadcast History, to make way for a new Jenna costume, made by local fursuit production company Fluffed Up Productions. Eventually, WDOSP donated the set that they had been using for almost 40 years to the museum in August 2015 to make way for a new set, made by Atomic! Set Construction.