Ahead of the closing of the sale of the station to Metro Radio LLC, Barry Lee retired this morning from Hot AC “WINC 105” 104.9 WZFC Strasburg/105.5 WINC-FM Berryville VA after 37 years at the station.
Lee joined 92.5 WINC-FM as morning host in 1984 moving with the station to the 104.9/105.5 simulcast after its former 92.5 signal was sold to Educational Media Foundation last fall. Prior to joining WINC-FM, Lee spent seven years in mornings at 99.3 WFFV Front Royal VA. A 2017 profile from the Winchester Star states that Lee spent his first decade at WINC-FM as a part-time employee while also managing dial-a-joke and local weather phone services.
Katie Gorham, who has co-hosted mornings with Lee since 2017, will remain in mornings at WINC-FM. Metro Radio states it intends to retain the current format of the station and add its programming to one of its suburban Washington DC translators to regain some of the coverage lost from the sale of the 92.5 signal across Northern Virginia.