Co-hosts Kelly Collis and Tommy McFly return to live broadcast on Monday.

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Still missing the Tommy Show? Well, now there’s an app for that.

The popular morning show on 94.7 FM, canceled suddenly in October by parent company Entercom, is returning in a new format. The Tommy Show 2.0, as they’ve taken to calling it, will be livestreaming out of a basement in Northwest D.C. beginning on Monday, February 25 with guest José Andrés.

That subterranean studio belongs to Kelly Collis who, along with the eponymous Tommy McFly, is coming back to co-host the show. The person who held the third microphone, Jen Richer, opted not to return. (‘Our friendship continues, but we have chosen to follow different paths professionally,” Richer tweeted in January.) The morning show will stream live on the Tommy Show app, which will replay the show throughout the day, and has features like an “open mic,” which lets listeners send a voicemail to McFly and Collis. Since the announcement this morning, the two say they’ve gotten “tons” of these voicemails.

“We haven’t slept last night—it was like Christmas Eve,” says McFly. The two are heartened by the response they’ve gotten so far. More than 300 people were waiting for their Facebook Live announcement at 7 a.m. on a snow day. “The response has been nuts,” he says.

The two decided to strike out on their own about six weeks ago. Since going off the air, the show was honored by the D.C. Council for its “many contributions to civic and community life across the region,” and McFly says they had an offer to go to Dallas, “but that wouldn’t be for us, D.C. is our home.” He said they talked to the “usual suspects” in the local radio scene, but that market has been tightening. In addition to changes at 94.7, contemporary radio station Mix 107.3 was sold this month to a Christian radio media organization. “We are really thrilled to be a D.C. company,” says McFly. “To not only stay here and want to broadcast here, but to own a business.”

While they considered creating a podcast, the duo opted for a live show like their previous one. That created some technical challenges. “There’s a pretty good reason why there’s not a lot of live shows that are streaming,” says Collis. “They are challenging to do.” But she says that now, “we have all of these beautiful tools and equipment,” as well as the opportunity to share audio outside of the show. For instance, the pair won’t be airing the entire hour-long interview they conducted with NBC Washington’s Wendy Rieger, nor the whole half-hour chat they had with Masseria chef Nick Stefanelli—but now, they can release those full conversations in addition to playing snippets during the live show. They can also broadcast more easily from live events.

Not being a part of a corporate radio station means the Tommy Show is less beholden to strictly timed segments and will play fewer commercials. “That time is time we can give to people who have things to say,” says McFly. “You’re going to hear more voices—we look at this as a channel and can’t wait for the day we have other shows on it, too.” There’s a plan to expand to Smart Speakers this summer, too.

The show is starting off with some sponsors, including Events DC, Georgetown Cupcake, Carmine’s, Rio Washingtonian Center, Downtown Silver Spring, CitiOpen, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, and Liberty in Lorton. Advertisers and clients will be able to access metrics and data from the Tommy Show App. They’re also partnering with NBC Washington, which will serve as their official weather partner (McFly has been filing stories for the news channel since before the Tommy Show went off-air, and will continue to do so).

The two are still hoping to land their dream guests: for McFly, it’s Michelle Obama, and for Collis, it’s having a Nationals player like Ryan Zimmerman, Max Scherzer, or Bryce Harper (“if we can keep him”) to grace their studio for a long-form interview. But until then, they are thrilled to revive their show in the District. “We’re just excited that the technology exists that we were able to find a home in D.C.,” says Collis. “I don’t think we could have done this 2-3 years ago.”