Grand Rapids Radio: WFGR Launches The Jojo Show

Michigan native Jojo Girard takes the helm at the Townsquare Media station Classic Hits WFGR 98.7 FM as the successor to "Andy and Dave in the Morning" following the departure of Andy O'Riley and Dave Kaechele in January, according to mlive.com.

"I'm going to be doing the show, at least for a few weeks, until they send me back to reform school," Girard quipped this morning on the air.

The Saginaw native said he's happy to be back in Michigan.

"Michigan always has been a pull for me. I always come back for vacations," he said. "I guess it's the people, and it’s the state as a whole."

Girard was with WSNX-FM 104.5 in Muskegon from 1988 to 1994 back when it was "Sunny FM," a Top 40 station operating out of studios in Norton Shores.

His career in radio began in Saginaw while attending CMU, working part time at WSAM-AM and weekends at WKCQ-FM, where his sister, Barb Sheltraw, is one half of Jim & Barb on the air in the morning on the country station.

Girard spent nearly 20 years in Maryland, first for 18 years as morning man on Hot AC WWMX-FM "Mix 106.5" in Baltimore, from 1994 to 2012. (See departure posting: Click Here)

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"Andy and Dave in the Morning" debuted in October 2012 on WFGR-FM before the show was pulled in January. Tom Cook, brand manager for Townsquare Media Grand Rapids, said ratings were to blame. (See departure posting, Click Here)