From the MCRFB notebook: 1977, 1979
and (2) 1981
WOMC-FM
DETROIT (March 5, 1977) — Dave Shafer is the new program director of WOMC-FM in Detroit. He has been an afternoon personality at the station since January 1976 and before that Shafer was an air personality and program director at WCAR-AM, Detroit. Oddly enough, he once was one of the Jack The Bellboys who worked at WJBK-AM in the old days, along with Tom Clay and others. Later, Shafer was a morning and afternoon disk jockey for eight years on CKLW-AM. Then he went to WYSL in Buffalo as program director, spent some later time at WYKC in Cleveland, then returned to do the morning show on CKLW in Detroit for 3 and a-half years. Shafer replaced Joe Taylor, who left to become program and general manager of WGAL in beautiful out-of-town Lancaster, Pennsylvania. END.
DETROIT (October 27, 1979) — Metromedia’s WOMC-FM has signed two of the Motor City’s top on-air personalities. Marc Avery has moved over from WJR-AM to handle morning drive and Tom Dean has left ABC’s talk station WXYZ-AM to move into an afternoon slot.
Avery, who will be on from 6 to 10 a.m., comes from more than eight years at WJR where he was host to his “Saturday Morning Confusion” show and more recently did the “Afternoon Music Hall.” He also had previously worked in Detroit as morning man at WJBK-AM and WXYZ. He succeeds Jim Davis.
Dean, before being a talk host on WXYZ, was host of the “Femme Forum” program on WDEE-AM. He succeeds Bob Charlton, who has left the station to pursue his own business. END.
DETROIT (August 1, 1981) — Bill Garcia has been hired away from WDRQ-FM Detroit to be program director at WOMC-FM. Garcia had been moving the Hot 100 formatted WDRQ into a more adult contemporary mode and into direct competition with Metromedia’s WOMC. Charter Broadcasting has WDRQ on the block. Garcia succeeds Dave Shafer, who’s moved over to WCZY-FM, which is running the syndicated Schulke II vocal-oriented Beautiful music format. END.
DETROIT (October 3, 1981) — Veteran Detroit broadcaster Dave Lockhart has joined the air staff at WOMC-FM hosting the morning drive program, 6-10 a.m., Monday through Saturday. Prior to his WOMC appointment, Lockhart spent 15 years at ABC’s WXYZ-AM Detroit, handling both music and news format. END.
(Information and news source: Billboard Magazine. All excerpts culled as was published from the dated editions noted above).
