{"id":183154,"date":"2025-10-01T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:33:07","slug":"am800-host-dan-macdonald-makes-move-to-89x-afternoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183154\/","title":{"rendered":"AM800 host Dan MacDonald makes move to 89X afternoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AM800 host Dan MacDonald is on the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald announced Wednesday that his show, The Dan MacDonald Show, heard weekdays 9 a.m. to noon on AM800, would end on Tuesday Oct. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald told his audience he was moving back to the FM dial as afternoon host on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.am800cklw.com\/news\/windsors-pure-country-rebrands-back-to-the-beloved-89x.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">89X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald said it was a decision not made lightly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The past six years on AM800 have meant so much to me. Having a platform in the community and bringing so many different perspectives, debates, and opinions, listener engagement, the calls, the texts, it&#8217;s just been so much fun. That was very very hard to say goodbye to, I mean, you haven&#8217;t heard the last of me, I will be in this seat again filling in,&#8221; MacDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald expressed gratitude to his listeners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had debates, we&#8217;ve had laughs, we&#8217;ve had tears, we went through a pandemic together, and so many changes, but the listeners, I always said from day one that this show is as much theirs as it is mine. It&#8217;s a community show about us, and I will forever be grateful to the listeners of AM800,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.am800cklw.com\/news\/windsors-pure-country-rebrands-back-to-the-beloved-89x.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">89X was relaunched in late August<\/a> after a five-year hiatus as Pure Country.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald is no stranger to the FM dial having had a successful run on then 93.9 The River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald said music has always been his number one passion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love music. I love talking about music, playing music. It&#8217;s always been a guide for me, a motivator, and to set the soundtrack to people&#8217;s drive home, that&#8217;s an opportunity at the end of the day I could not turn down. I&#8217;m just so so excited. I was pumped with everyone else when 89X came back, I&#8217;m even more pumped to be apart of that scene and revival again,&#8221; MacDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>Effective Wednesday Oct. 8, MacDonald can be heard 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 88.7 FM and online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.89xradio.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">89XRadio.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All iHeartRadio Canada stations are available across Canada via live stream on iHeart.com and the iHeartRadio Canada app.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AM800 host Dan MacDonald is on the move.\u00a0 MacDonald announced Wednesday that his show, The Dan MacDonald Show,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-183154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}