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Shelby's radio successor will do show from Chicago

  • Article by: Star Tribune
  • Updated: April 9, 2010 - 7:33 PM
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WCCO Radio, AM 830, has chosen a Chicago talk-show host to fill the afternoon slot vacated recently by Don Shelby -- and the new voice will remain in the Windy City.

John Williams, who was a 9 a.m.-noon host at WCCO in the mid-1990s, is returning to the Minnesota airwaves Tuesday, but will keep his 9 a.m.-noon program at WGN. He'll have a lunch hour, then go live on WCCO from 1 to 3 p.m., WCCO program director Wendy Paulson said Friday.

Paulson expressed confidence in having a remotely based host on "The Good Neighbor" station, whose history goes back nearly 90 years.

"I'm looking for good talent who is connected with our community," she said. Williams "has friends, family here; his son is going to the University of Minnesota. He vacations here. It is a chosen community for him."

A host working different time slots in multiple radio markets "isn't uncommon in the industry," Paulson said.

She pledged that Williams' show would be "unique to WCCO. ... We're not simulcasting."

Shelby, the longtime WCCO-TV news anchor, signed off the radio Dec. 11 after nine years.

PAUL WALSH

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