New Live Afternoon Drive on WCAP

["sockhop" <garyfrancis@sockhop.net>]

Starting Monday May 13th, WCAP will be making some changes to its daytime
schedule.  Tom Martino, The Troubleshooter moves to 12 noon - 2 pm in place
of Jason Jarvis and a new LIVE local afternoon show begins.  "Afternoon Live
with Gary Francis & Ryan Johnston" from 4 - 7 pm Monday thru Friday.
Live guests, call ins, Rob Carrollan with weather, traffic reports and
features like "Restaurant Spotlight" will be established.  A cast of
regulars is being assembled such as Lowell School Committe member Regina
Faticanti, Kelly Beaty, editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine and others.
The show will take place both from the WCAP studios and from various
locations throughout Greater Lowell.
Gary Francis has been the host of The Saturday Night Sock Hop since 1990 and
is the "imaging voice" of WCAP and other stations up and down the east
coast.  He was formerly the mid-day guy and production director at WNNH,
Oldies-99 in Hennicker/Concord, NH in the mid-90's  and was the fill-in host
for Gene Burns on Dining Around at WRKO for 5 years.
Ryan Johnston is the AP-award winning play-by-play voice of the Lowell Lock
Monsters as well as the program director of WCAP.  Prior to WCAP he worked
at stations in New York and the midwest.