“Monsters & Money in the Morning” never quite found its voice, but co-host Mike Hegedus clearly found his in the final moments of the final edition of WBBM-Ch. 2’s bold but short-lived experiment that never found its audience.

Hegedus closed out the seven-month run of “Monsters & Money” just before 7 a.m. on Friday with an emotional plea for the television business “to take risks, to be different, to create something new and to give it time to succeed” or surrender to mediocrity.