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Friday, February 22, 2013

Toledo Radio: Andrew Z To Relaunch Show

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Andrew Zepeda hasn’t listened to WWWM Star 105 since Cumulus Media abruptly dropped his morning show Dec. 26 — but not out of spite. His radio is broken.

“The ironic thing is the one car we have, the radio broke the week after we got fired, I swear to God,” Zepeda told Srah Ottney at toledofreepress.com. “So I haven’t really listened to terrestrial radio since I left. I don’t have the money to get it fixed. Actually I use my phone. That’s what I use for all my entertainment now.”

Fittingly, Zepeda plans to relaunch “Andrew Z in the Morning” on Feb. 25 via a free mobile app called Toledo’s APP Station.

The show will stream live 6:30-9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Afterward, the show will replay on a loop all day. The show will be the first Toledo radio station exclusively available via smartphone, Zepeda said. The app is available for Android and will be available for iPhones soon.

The show’s cast will feature familiar voices, including Zepeda’s wife Michelle, Brandon Doriot, Calen Savidge and Corey W. King.

Zepeda said he is confident people will seek out the show because “it is still the best show in Toledo.”

To start, the show will broadcast from Zepeda’s Perrysburg home, but he hopes to find more sponsors and studio space soon. Zepeda also alluded to another project in the works featuring more traditional media that would be announced soon.

Zepeda said he was “blindsided” Dec. 26 when he was told “Andrew Z in the Morning: The People’s Show” was being dropped by Cumulus Media.

The firing came six days after Zepeda was sentenced to 30 days at the Wood County Justice Center, with permission to apply for work release, and five years’ community control, including no bars or alcohol.

In October, Mayberry found Zepeda violated his intervention in lieu of conviction by participating in a Sept. 13 celebrity charity boxing match at which alcohol was served. The violation meant Zepeda was convicted of three felony charges related to a 2010 break-in at his former business in Perrysburg. An appeal is pending.

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