Amy Dodge will be the permanent host of CBC Radio's Windsor Morning
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Amy Dodge is the new host of CBC Radio's Windsor Morning.
After serving as a fill-in host since the fall, Dodge will be staying in the role as the permanent host of the show.
The award-winning journalist has worked in newsrooms in Sudbury and Windsor, producing and reporting for radio and television.
CBC Windsor's Jason Viau spoke with his colleague about her new full-time gig, the kinds of stories that inspire her most and who she is off the mic. Here is part of their conversation.
You've been filling in this role since the fall. What's that time been like for you?
I was so nervous when I stepped into the role on a temporary backfill.
In the same breath, I felt like I had nothing to lose [in that] it allowed me just to be myself. I thought, "I can go into this, I'm going to be Amy Dodge, high energy, quirky, push the limits in certain ways, have some real honest conversations and see how it goes." I was nervous what the community would think, but I knew it was just temporary.
When that happened, we got so many people liking what they were hearing. It's so weird to talk about myself, but people really connected with me and the rest of the team in a way that encouraged us to just keep being our authentic selves and have fun and banter. It's just been really fun in a way that I didn't expect it would be.
What inspires you most about Windsor-Essex?
The people [and] the stories.
This studio has sort of become like a living room, right? People come in, they sit down, usually they're nervous and we just chat. And I know I did my job when they leave and say, "You know, that was easier than I thought it would be. You made it so comfortable."
I love that. And I want more of that, for our listeners to have that intimacy in the morning, to hear stories from Chatham and Leamington and Sarnia and all the different pockets.
Do you remember your first time on the radio?
I don't know if this counts, but I grew up on a farm and we had a CB radio. That's how we would communicate.
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