Dave Fogel Phone Home

UPDATED • Chicago radio pro Dave Fogel has been hired to voicetrack the midday airshift at Cumulus Classic Hits KCMO-FM/Kansas City. He will retain his existing gig as co-host of the WLS Wake-Up Call on Cumulus Classic Hits WLS-FM/Chicago.

Fogel, the son of Kansas City radio and television legend Jerry Fogel, started his radio in Kansas City in 1982 at the late, legendary Top 40 KBEQ (Q104), and later went on to work in San Diego, DC and Detroit. From 2010-2013 Fogel co-hosted mornings on Cumulus Classic Hits WLS-FM/Chicago, followed by a five-year run with CBS Radio Classic Hits WJMK (104.3 K-Hits) until the Entercom merger last November and the subsequent flip to Classic Hip Hop WBMX (104.3 Jams). In January of this year Fogel returned to WLS-FM as co-host of The WLS Wake Up Call with Kim Berk.

Joe Russo, PD of KCMO-FM, said, “Dave is a superstar and a Kansas City guy through and through. Somebody pinch me — Kelly Urich mornings and Dave Fogel in the workday on KCMO. What a fantastic lineup for our listeners.” Fogel commented, “I’m thrilled to be on KCMO and back on the radio in Kansas City where my career started in the ’80s right after MU.”

• Fun Facts: Fogel is a Mizzou Tiger, and he shared a house with Brad Pitt while attending the University of Missouri. Fellow student Sheryl Crow taught the guys how to sing “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.”