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DeDe McGuire
Music Director and Producer The Doug Banks Morning Show, ABC Radio

 

When Michelle Burton, then Music Director and Producer of The Doug Banks Morning Show, stepped down to pursue other interests, Morning Show co-host DeDe McGuire stepped up to the plate! Before ABC Radio Networks could get involved in a nationwide search for a replacement, DeDe McGuire delivered a proposal to the powers-that-be at ABC and cornered the job!

 

Music Director and Producer, DeDe McGuire was a Doug Banks fan long before she became his morning show co-host. According to DeDe, "I used to listen to Doug's shows in Chicago, both morning and afternoon. He was so funny. I remember wishing I could be in the studio with him to add my two cents. Now I have the opportunity to add a whole fifty cents!" DeDe provides the much-needed comedic balance for "crazy Doug Banks" which leads to a delicious chemistry. In fact, she believes they work well together like a good "peanut butter and jelly sandwich."

 

DeDe McGuire is a Texas native who is a self proclaimed "spaver"… one who spends and saves at the same time. The confessed "shopaholic" hails from Killeen where her family still lives. She attended Texas Women's University in Denton, majoring in Journalism. It was there that the radio bug bit, launching her impressive career. DeDe has already made her mark in the "bigtime" with airshifts in San Antonio, Dallas, Chicago and Philadelphia.

 

Most recently, DeDe was the Midday personality at CHR formatted WIOQ-FM in Philly, where she also served as Music Director and Afternoon Drive personality. Before her three years in the City of Brotherly Love, she logged two years in Chicago at Adult Contemporary WPNT-FM as the host of the late night "Personals Show." DeDe also enjoyed two years in Dallas doing afternoons for Urban KKDA-FM and a year at Dance formatted KTFM-FM in San Antonio.

 

DeDe is the youngest of five and not the only radio geek in the family… two of her brothers and a sister are also in broadcasting.

 



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