Longtime morning drive host joined the station in 1989. Author: Boyd Huppert Updated: 6:46 PM CST January 8, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS For three decades, Minnesotans have been waking up to Dave Lee on WCCO Radio.
Friday, they awoke to learn their morning relationship will soon be ending.
“I m retiring,” Lee told his audience, his normally smooth voice cracking. “May 1st the alarm clock will not be set. April 30th is my last day.”
At age 66, after 32 years at the good neighbor, Radio Dave says it s time.
A 2019 vacation to Italy with wife Julie lit a spark in the early-rising Lee. “I was sleeping late every day and I said, ‘You know what? This isn t too bad.’”