Mitchell Hanging Up His Cans
• Joey Mitchell, morning personality on Results Radio Classic Hits KCCL (101.5 K-Hits)/Sacramento, announced his impending retirement, effective March 26.
Mitchell, who celebrated his 50th anniversary in radio last November, started his career in 1969 in Southern California, and has been on the air in Sacramento since 1975, starting at KPOP before moving over to KRAK Country, where he spent the next 20 years. In the mid-’90s Mitchell joined the former Cool 101.1, and later, Kool 101.9. Mitchell has been with K-Hits since its launch in early 2007.
Mitchell said, “After 51 years and three months of getting up weekday mornings at 4am, I’m more than ready to sleep in. Radio is something I dreamt of doing since I was six years old, so the past half a century on the air has been a huge blessing. However, now it’s time to take my headsets off and spend time with my family, and travel while scratching off bucket list items while I’m still healthy enough to enjoy them. What a ride it’s been!!!”
Rico Garcia, OM/PD of KCCL said, “Working with Joey has been a blast! He will be greatly missed by the K-Hits team and listeners, and we are all honored to have worked with him. Joey has earned this exciting achievement, and we’re happy to see him already making fun plans for retirement.” Mitchell’s final broadcast will be Friday, March 26, live from 6-9am PT. Listeners and industry peers are invited to call and wish Joey well during the show at 916-587-1015 or email joey@1015khits.com.
That’s Mitchell (left), pictured with California Assembly member Jim Cooper, who presented him with a California State Legislature Resolution last November during Mitchell’s 50th anniversary celebration.
