Detroit Radio: Kim Adams Is Back April 19

Kim Adams

Kim Adams, the former meteorologist at WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and later WDIV-TV (Channel 4), who was fired from her job as midday host at WDZH 98.7 FM in the middle of her shift in November 2020 when the station suddenly switched formats from adult contemporary to alt-rock, is back on her feet.

Kim Adams begins her new job at Christian WMUZ 103.5 FM on April 19, reports The Detroit News.

In addition to a pair of new gigs, one as a host on WMUZ-FM and one as a fundraising and development executive for New Day Foundation for Families, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the financial burden and emotional stress caused by cancer, she has a positive outlook for the future. 

"That's the biggest thing, having hope. If you don't have hope, then you can't feel that joy," says Adams, on the phone Thursday. "It's not just me, literally every single person in the world has gone through the same thing at the same time over the past year, and so everybody needs a comeback in one way or another."

Adams' comes after a particularly grueling few months. After losing her job at Breeze-FM one week before Thanksgiving, the mother of five turned her focus to charity work in December. "It was the only way I knew I wouldn't get stuck wallowing in my own self pity," she says.

Along with Paula Tutman, her former co-worker from her Channel 4 days, Adams worked with Deo Gratias Ministries on Detroit's east side to raise money for food for families in need. They started with the goal of feeding 500 families and ended up helping more than 3,000, with enough money left over to throw a follow-up event in February. "The generosity was overwhelming," says Adams, who turned 50 last June. "It took my focus off my own situation, and it just made me happy."

Happiness quickly turned to grief after the first of the year, when Adams' father, William, died suddenly on Jan. 3. In addition to the loss, Adams found herself as caretaker for her 77-year-old mother, Cindy. That's in addition to raising her five children, ages 7 to 18, and doing so without a full-time gig. 

Then the calls started rolling in. Adams was offered a job doing nights on WDJC-FM, a Christian radio station in Birmingham, Alabama. She couldn't move to Birmingham, but she found out she could do the show from her home. And along with that job came an offer to do a nightly, one-hour show on Detroit Christian station the Light, WMUZ-FM, from 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., leading into Joyce Meyer's program. 

The still-untitled show launches April 19, and Adams has no hesitations jumping back into the world of radio, even as the rug was swept out from underneath her the last time around. "I don't think they're going to change formats anytime soon," she says with a laugh.