Donnybrook | Meet the Hosts

Charlie Brennan

Charles Brennan is in charge of radio station KMOX's top-rated weekday mid-mornings. Brennan has been voted St. Louis' favorite talk show host four times in the Readers Polls of the Riverfront Times. In 1998, he was named Media Person of the Year by the St. Louis Press Club. Brennan was named one of America's top 25 "most influential radio talk show hosts" in USA Today. Brennan has worked at KMOX since 1988, after working in Boston radio beginning in 1982. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Boston College. Brennan assumed the role of host in January 2010.

Bill McClellan

Letters to Nine PBS about Bill McClellan comment as much about his clothing as about his political opinions. Whether or not viewers regard McClellan as a sartorial icon, his style is as firmly entrenched as his love for his hometown baseball team, the Chicago Cubs. He joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1980, shortly after moving to St. Louis. He and his wife, a graduate of Washington University's dental school, have been married since December 29, 1979, and have two children.

Wendy Wiese

Wendy Wiese has anchored newscasts, interviewed local, state and national newsmakers, narrated award-winning documentaries, and has been a fixture in St. Louis radio for almost 40 years. A recipient of Ohio State Radio and Television News Directors and Missouri Broadcasters Association awards and a graduate of Visitation High School and Fontbonne College, Wendy is active with Catholic Charities and a board member of the Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club. She lives in Chesterfield with her husband Chris and has two grown daughters, Kate and Maggie.

Alvin Reid

Alvin Reid is lead sports columnist for the Globe-Democrat, the latest stop in a 26-year journalism career that has taken him from Danville, Ill, to Little Rock, Ark., to Lansing, Mich., to Washington, D.C. and finally back to his hometown of St. Louis. Reid spent 12 years at the St. Louis American, where he twice was honored by the Missouri Press Association as Best Sports Columnist. He also is a member of the 101 ESPN radio staff and in January 2010 became a regular member of Donnybrook.

Sarah Fenske

Sarah Fenske is the executive editor of St. Louis Magazine, where she writes the St. Louis Daily newsletter. She's the former host of St. Louis on the Air on St. Louis Public Radio and still hosts its monthly Legal Roundtable. She's also a panelist on Nine PBS' Donnybrook and the executive director of the River City Journalism Fund, which seeks to advance local journalism. In a previous life, she was editor in chief of alt-weeklies in Los Angeles and St. Louis and an award-winning columnist in Phoenix. Originally from Cleveland, she's a proud resident of the city's Compton Heights neighborhood, along with her husband and two daughters. 

Joe Holleman

A native St. Louisan and longtime city resident, Joe has worked as a reporter and columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 1989, covering stories in most departments at the newspaper. Currently, he writes "Joe's Political Fix."  He has also appeared as a guest on several local television and radio stations. In 2021, he was named a Media Person of the Year by the St. Louis Press Club. (Go Cardinals! ... Go Pack Go!)