Randy Edwards

Weekday Mornings
6 a.m. – 9 a.m.

Randy’s hometown is Ft. Wayne, Indiana where he started in radio in 1974, before moving to Angola.  Upon moving to Angola he started working for Lake Cities Broadcasting Company at WLKI-FM 100.3 in August of 1976.  He has been the morning show co-host of WLZZ-FM 104.5 since 1993, which is owned by the same company.

He became a big fan of music around the age of 2 when he would listen to the radio.  When he would hear a song that he really liked his mom would take him to a record store to buy it.  By the time he started school, he had already decided he wanted to be a disc jockey, thinking, “It would be fun to play music for a living”.

Randy has been living his childhood dream for almost 35 years!  He has worked for Lake Cities Broadcasting, now Swick Broadcasting, for 30 years, where he still enjoys coming into work each day.  Randy says, “I especially enjoy being able to use the big voice of WLZZ to help make a positive difference in the community”.

Randy and his wife Karen have been married for 25 plus years.  Together they have a son, Brandon, who attends Huntington University, studying pre-med.  Randy also has two stepdaughters and four grandchildren.

Randy’s hobbies include family, friends, music and reading.

 
Charlotte Burke

Charlotte Burke

WLZZ News Director, Video News Anchor

Charlotte Burke is an Angola native who returned to the Tri-State area after a career spent in cities across the United States. Before working with Randy Edwards on the WLZZ Morning Show and as Swick Broadcasting’s Video News Anchor, she worked as an anchor and reporter for Newstalk 1190 WOWO in Fort Wayne.  In 2006, she moved to Las Vegas to launch and manage Beasley Broadcasting’s 50-thousand-watt News/Talk radio station, KDWN. For her work at KDWN, Burke was named one of  “America’s Best Program Directors” in 2008 by Radio Ink Magazine. In 2005, Burke was hired by Martha Stewart as Vice President/General Manager of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s Radio Division. Burke’s job was to develop, launch, and lead The Martha Stewart Living Radio Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio.  Prior to her work with MSLO, Burke was the Executive Editor of CBS News, Radio Division and worked for several years as a CBS news anchor and correspondent. Burke has won three prestigious Edward R. Murrow Awards and a Gracie Award for her work in news. As CBS’ Executive Editor of Radio, she produced the network's continuous coverage of live and breaking news events, such as the war in Iraq, President Reagan’s funeral and the political conventions. Before joining CBS News, Burke served as News Bureau Chief and news anchor for Metro Networks in Miami, FL.   Burke also spent time as a News Reporter/Anchor at KFYI, Phoenix, as a Morning co-host at WAXY-FM, Miami, FL and as a news anchor/mid-day host at “The Fort”, WFWI in Fort Wayne, IN. Burke began her broadcasting career at the age of 14—playing records and reading weather reports at WLKI in Angola, IN. Burke has one son, Jackson, who is a high school senior.

Steve Baker

On-Air Personality

I’m not right, or so I am told by the majority of my friends and family.  I find organization nearly euphoric.  I am a connoisseur of bad music and third-rate movies and yes my shirts are hung in the closet according to their respective colors, but does that make me a bad person? I hope not.  At least I am aware of my idiosyncrasies and rumor has it that that is the first step to recovery, right?

You’ll find most of my past lingering in Richmond, Indiana. That is where my childhood was occupied with designing elaborate Hot Wheel cities in my bedroom, playing Wiffle Ball with my friends while listening to Van Halen’s 1984 and on cold winter mornings sitting on the warm register in my underwear and watching old Warner Brother’s cartoons while eating Cookie Crisp cereal (back when it actually tasted like cookies). I soon found my pants and picked up the drums and then the guitar which lead me to playing in an a sundry of punk and alternative bands that you’ve likely never heard of but that did release a lot of material. I bounced around from one shameful job to another while living a cliché of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll (without the sex or the drugs) until somewhere along the way I grabbed an FCC license (back when you actually needed one) and decided to start speaking for a living. My humble radio beginnings began at Earlham College’s WECI 91.5FM in Richmond, Indiana. Three years of volunteering my time in public radio and scaring the Richmond listening audience with my favorite metal, punk, alternative and classic rock songs groomed me for sixteen years in commercial country radio at Kicks 96 in Richmond.  Along the way, I became quite captivated with a stunningly beautiful woman named Chrissy who would propose marriage to me by candlelight and I would reciprocate knee deep in chilly lake water. She soon would take our canine son Hank and leave town to accept a magnificent job a hundred and fifty miles away in Coldwater, Michigan leaving me to acknowledge that I was indeed a pack rat who now had to move all of my belongings one by one up to Michigan every weekend when visiting my home that I wasn't living in.  I moved in at about the same time my wife was just adjusting to being single again and began working at WLZZ in November of 2008. 

Every day I am thankful for my preposterous past and the path that I have chose as it led me to where I am… happily married to an enchanting woman with whom I raise a wonderful dog and cat.  I dream as often as I remember and that reminds me where I've been and more importantly where I must go. Life is good and living it is all the much better.

Jim Measel

High School Sports

Jim Measel is the play-by-play for high school sports for WLZZ. Aside from his passion of football and basketball, Jim also enjoys, “GOLF, GOLF, GOLF, and more GOLF”, as Jim himself puts it. Jim is originally from Detroit, MI. He has officially became a “hoosier” as he recently became a homeowner in Angola.