Dave Fogel Takes Middays on KCMO-FM/Kansas City

Veteran air personality Dave Fogel joins Cumulus Classic Hits KCMO-FM Kansas City as its new midday host. Fogel started his radio career at KMXV in Kansas City and has held on-air positions in markets including San Diego, Washington DC, Detroit, and most recently, at WJMK-FM and WLS-FM Chicago. His show airs weekdays from 10am-2pm.

Fogel, the son of Kansas City radio and television legend Jerry Fogel, was exposed to celebrities and the entertainment world at a young age. He was raised on the Missouri side of Kansas City but moved to the Kansas side when he started his own family with his wife, Melanie, a Raytown native. Fogel is a Mizzou Tiger, and shared a house with Brad Pitt while at the University of Missouri (and fellow student Sheryl Crow gave the guys singing lessons of "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" song).

KCMO-FM Program Director Joe Russo 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 addd, "I am thrilled to be on KCMO and back on the radio in Kansas City where my career started in the 80's right after MU."

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