BY CLIFF SMELLEY
Chuck Kramer is still on the air in the morning at Eagle Country 106.3-FM, but he took another step toward the eventual change of ownership of WEAG and his retirement with the last official Chuck Kramer Show on Jan. 20.
Kramer told listeners this week it was “the beginning of the next phase,” with that resulting in the morning show now being what he calls “the transition edition of the Chuck Kramer Show.”
“It’s still going to be Chuck Kramer, so don’t get scared,” Kramer said.
At some point, however, Kramer won’t be on the air, but he said he doesn’t know yet what his last day at the station will be.
Kramer, his wife, Mary, and his daughter Lyn Veliz — who collectively own WEAG as Dickerson Broadcasting Inc. — announced in September 2025 they were selling the station, bringing about Kramer’s retirement after 65 years in radio. He’s spent the last 34.5 years at WEAG after moving to Bradford County from New Jersey.
“I’m going to miss it,” Kramer said. “I’m going to miss the listeners and the advertisers. I say every Thanksgiving, ‘Thank you for your support.’ When I do that, I mean that. Those aren’t just empty words.”
The station is transitioning to being under the ownership of Florida Broadcast Media Group Inc., which was created specifically to buy WEAG. Dave Krieger is the president.
“He’ll be coming later this week,” Kramer said of Krieger during his Jan. 19 morning show.
Kramer shared some information he knows for sure with his listeners.
“With regard to the station and what’s happening, they’re still going to have a local show in the morning, and they’re going to have a lot of news and music and talk and sports, Kramer said. “It’ll be radio like you’ve never heard before. That’s what I can say.
“Another thing I’m privy to is they’re going to call it ‘Real Community Radio.’”
Kramer’s career has consisted of “doing all the shifts and formats you can think of,” he said. He talked about the format change at WEAG, saying it played love songs when he arrived before switching to country music in 1993.
“Then, about five, six, maybe seven years ago, we started integrating top 40 in the morning and country along with everything else,” Kramer said.
Kramer said he never gave thought to whether he’d have such a long career at WEAG when he arrived in 1991. He remembers a conversation he had with Ruth Dickerson, who co-owned the station with her husband, Ben. She welcomed him and asked him what he thought about his new job. He told her, “I’ll give you a year.” That was just in case things didn’t work out.
It’s safe to say they worked out. Kramer and his family found a home at WEAG and a home in Bradford County.
Bradford will continue to be home.
“We’re not moving,” Kramer said.
Though he’s spent so many years doing the morning show, there’s one part of that routine he’ll be glad to give up in retirement.
“I will miss the show and the people, but what I won’t miss is the 4:15 alarm clock,” Kramer said.
That’s still a little way into the future, however, as he’s still got a few early mornings ahead of him as part of the transition edition of the Chuck Kramer Show.
In a statement provided to the Telegraph-Times-Monitor in September 2025, Krieger said WEAG will continue to have a morning show after Kramer’s retirement.
