Michelle McKormick is a Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located on the Grand River about 40 miles east of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of 774,160 and a combined statistical area, Grand...

 based talk radio

Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...

 personality. She is the former co-host of Mouth 2 Mouth on WOOD (AM)

WOOD (AM)

WOOD is a news/talk radio station broadcasting at 1300 kHz and 106.9 FM in Michigan, United States. WOOD-AM is licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan and WOOD-FM to Muskegon, Michigan.-Full-service station:...

 with Scott Winters

Scott Winters

Richard Scott Winters is an American radio talk show host.Winters is a 1981 graduate of Union High School in Grand Rapids. After graduating high school, he began working in the commercial printing industry...

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McKormick is a West Michigan native and a 1985 graduate of Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...

. She began her radio career at WGRD in 1984 and held a variety of positions there, including music director

Music director

A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...

. She was part of GRD's morning show during the 1980s along with Denny Schaefer. She left GRD in the 1990s and did radio at WKXW in Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

. She returned to Grand Rapids in 1997 to work at WVTI-FM, now WMAX

WMAX-FM

WMAX-FM are the call letters of a radio station owned by Clear Channel Communications located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, transmitting on a frequency of 96.1 MHz....

. She stayed until 2002 when she made her way to Detroit to work at WKRK with Gregg Henson. She was fired in 2006 and eventually returned to Grand Rapids. She began working at Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...

 owned WOOD-AM to cover for Winters and Rick Beckett

Rick Beckett

Richard Blaine Beckett was an American radio broadcaster.Rick was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and moved to Grand Rapids shortly thereafter. He began his radio career while still in high school at Union High School in Grand Rapids at WZZM-FM in 1970, where he worked part time on weekends...

when they were on vacation. She replaced Beckett after his untimely death in 2009.

On November 5, 2010, WOOD AM announced the cancellation of Mouth 2 Mouth. Both McKormick and Winters were fired from Clear Channel.