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Preston & Steve is a morning radio, comedy, and variety broadcast on Philadelphia's active rock station 93.3 FM WMMR. The show features DJs Preston Elliot and Steve Morrison. The show originated at WDRE and then on Y100, both in Philadelphia, and features daily telephone interviews, in studio guests, celebrity impersonations, unusual news stories, and numerous sound clips and running gags. It broadcasts live on the radio as well as streaming audio via the station website from 6 a. m. to 10:30 a. m. ET Monday through Friday, and is a featured podcast in the comedy section of the iTunes Store.

Preston Elliot, Steve Morrison and Marilyn Russell were among a group of radio personalities introduced to the Philadelphia market through the now defunct radio station WDRE. With several of their WDRE co workers, they departed the station for Y100 in 1997 when WDRE changed format. WPLY's owner, Dan Lerner, one of the last independent owners in the Philadelphia market, sold the station to Radio One, a national broadcasting corporation, in 2001. Coincidentally, Radio One was the same group that bought Preston, Marilyn & Steve's previous radio station 103.9 WDRE. Radio One and hosts Elliot and Morrison did not successfully negotiate a new contract, and the personalities agreed to a deal with local broadcasting group Greater Media. The hosts' contract with Radio One expired on February 24, 2005, and Y100 changed format and became WPHI "The Beat" at 11:50 p. m. EDT that same day. A legal battle between Radio One and the Elliot and Morrison team over the hosts' non compete clause was resolved by a ruling that they were no longer in competition with WPLY. Their new show officially debuted on WMMR on Monday, May 23, 2005. In 2006, Elliot and Morrison received a long term contract extension and in 2008, the station gave them a new studio with their own production equipment. They continued to sign multi year extensions in 2011, in 2019 (with current owner of WMMR Beasley Broadcast Group), and most recently in May 2022 that will keep them on WMMR through 2030.

To celebrate the anticipated 10,000th loss in Philadelphia Phillies franchise history, executive producer Nick McIlwain rolled 10,000 marbles down the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as Bill Weston (WMMR's program director) looked on. After being cleaned up by the show's production crew, the marbles were donated to Toys for Tots and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In 2006, Elliot had a slip of the tongue while trying to say "awesome" and instead said "office". Later that year they announced that they would be releasing a calendar featuring one (sometimes two) woman a month. Lauren Harris had been the only woman to appear in the calendar every year, until the 2015 calendar, when other commitments kept her from participating (she returned to appear in the 2016 Calendar). Release of the Calendar is typically accompanied by a "Totally Office Calendar Party", which can draw thousands of participants to see the women depicted in the Calendar in person and receive signed copies of the Calendar. There was no Calendar shoot nor a release party for 2020 due to the COVID 19 pandemic restrictions. Instead, a 2021 "Totally Office Calendar" poster featuring past photos from previous Calendars was created and was given to anyone that made a drive through donation at the 2020 Camp Out for Hunger. The Calendar poster was later made available through the station's "Rock Shop" store on their website for the apropos price of $9.33.

This annual blood drive is hosted by Preston & Steve in coordination with the American Red Cross. The event typically attracts a very large crowd, and various promotional items and free concert tickets are often given out. The 2011 (6th annual) blood drive collected a total of 1,174 units of blood, and gives them a 6 year total of 6,409 units. The 2016 (11th annual) drive collected a total of 1,297 units of blood.

Elliot and his wife Rachelle were featured in the first episode of Season Five on Trading Spaces. Morrison and his wife Claire were featured on an episode of the HGTV show Spice Up My Kitchen where their kitchen was redone for a budget of $40,000. Producer Casey Foster and his wife Diane were featured on an episode of the HGTV show Bad, Bad Bath (later retitled Save My Bath) which premiered on October 17, 2006. Reporter Kathy Romano had appeared on an episode of the third season of The Simple Life, commenting that the producers present on a Greyhound bus had to "spoon feed" every line of dialogue to Paris Hilton. Romano appeared in the 2009 film The Mighty Macs as a gate agent. The film is produced by Pat Croce and is about an all girl Catholic college basketball team. Foster signed a one day contract with the Philadelphia Soul. Foster and McIlwain appeared in two episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Romano appeared in the season three episode "Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender." Both Elliot and Morrison appeared in season 4 episode 3, playing construction workers, alongside several Philadelphia Eagles. Steve's role was originally to include one line ("Uh, yeah I guess? "), but was shortened ("What? "), Preston's role had no lines. They were also featured as themselves in the episode "Mac's Big Break". Foster appeared in the 2010 documentary film Bazaar of All Nations about a unique and influential shopping center in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Morrison and Magnatta appear on an episode of Diners, Drive ins and Dives in 2011, where host Guy Fieri visits the Memphis Taproom in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.