Changes at WGAN

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The worst kept secret in Portland radio is now official:  Dave Winsor is out 
as the co-host of the WGAN Morning Show and Jim Crocker will be replacing 
him.  Winsor was officially notified of his dismissal after the forthcoming 
change was reported in yesterday's Casco Bay Weekly.  (Don't you love radio?) 

Crocker will start teaming with Willie Ritch on Monday.  The show will be 
called "Crocker & Willie."  Crocker co-hosted the morning show on WGAN for 
several years until leaving to do a TV talk show on WCSH in 1995.  At the 
time of his departure, the station took him to court in an unsuccesful 
attempt to enforce a non-compete clause in his contract.

Crocker is well known in Portland and was very popular in his earlier WGAN 
run.  It will be interesting to see how the audience reacts to having two 
liberals hosting the show.  Since WGAN went talk in 1989, the morning show 
has always had a liberal and a conservative as co-hosts.

Dan Billings
Bowdoinham, Maine
Producer of "Kroah & Crocker" on WGAN 1991-93

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