Milwaukee Radio: Karen Dalessandro Lands PM Drive At WKLH

After more than 20 years in Milwaukee radio, Karen Dalessandro is full time again, according to The Milwaukee Sentinel.

Dalessandro, who spent 20 years as a country radio host in Milwaukee before joining WKLH 96.5 FM last fall part time, has been bumped up to full-time host of the classic rock station from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays.

In the afternoon drive slot, she replaces longtime Milwaukee radio voice, Mark "The Shark" Dyba.

Dalessandro also will have a weekend show to be announced later, the station said. She had been filling in on some afternoons since joining WKLH part-time in November.

After getting her start at a rock station in Michigan, Dalessandro came to Milwaukee in 1998, where she was a popular host on WMIL 106.1 FM for 19 years. While at WMIL, she was a two-time Country Music Association personality of the year and was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2015.

Dalessandro retired from WMIL in the spring of 2017, only to un-retire a few months later and join WKTI 94.5 FM, which had gone all-country two years earlier. She lost that job when WKTI switched to all-sports under new owner Good Karma Brands in November 2018.