Longtime Townsquare Media Lansing Director of Content Chris Tyler will exit the cluster at the end of the week.
Tyler has hosted afternoons at Country 100.7 WITL since 1997 and added Program Director and Operations Manager duties in 2007. He joined WITL from WMEE Fort Wayne IN and also held on-air roles at WTNR Grand Rapids while at WITL.
His exit follows a rapid transition of veteran staffers from the station. Tyler’s wife Stephanie McCoy departed as morning co-host at the end of July after 22 years at the station to join WILX-TV as a host. That led to the exit of ‘Banana Don’ Jefferson at the end of August and the hiring of Tom ‘Cadillac Jack’ Kapsalis and Erica Gray as new morning hosts.
As part of a letter to listeners announcing his departure Tyler wrote,
I have always been profoundly grateful for my career at WITL as I have always realized that you can do anything else with your time but you’ve always been here in support of this station. In fact, I have never worked at a radio station that has had such a positive and unique relationship with it’s listeners. When we said “Wittle Family” we always meant and appreciated that.
But like I said earlier, all things come to an end and that’s where we are today. Along with radio I have had many other interests over the years and I will be exiting WITL on Friday in pursuit of those and other ventures that I’m extremely excited about.
But my friend, I’m not going to forget you nor spending weekday afternoons with you because it has always been the high point of my time here at WITL.