GREEN BAY – The local morning radio show drama of the last couple of months appears to be over.
WIXX-FM has announced that “Huggie and Natalie in the Morning” will fill the vacancy left when longtime host Jim Murphy retired on Nov. 28 after 32 years and his “Murphy in the Morning” co-hosts, Katie Schurk and Nick Vitrano, announced 10 days later they had left the station.
The new program from 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays will feature Daniel Amsden, better known as “Huggie” by listeners since joining the Midwest Communications contemporary hit radio station in 2022 as the PM drive host, the position vacated by Otis Day, who left to pursue a career outside of radio after 24 years at WIXX.
Amsden’s co-host is Natalie Jansen, whose previous radio experience is in Milwaukee, including sales for Saga Communications and on-air work at rock station 102.9 The Hog (WHQG-FM), according to Radio Insight.
Their exact start date was not revealed in a Friday video announcement posted on the WIXX Facebook page, but Huggie tells listeners to “tune in next week.”