Radio personality 'Dark Star' leaves WCCO-AM after 25 years

Radio personality Dark Star is leaving WCCO-AM after 25 years with the station, most recently as the late-night host of "Sports Night with Dark Star."

Star, whose real name is George Chapple, accepted a buyout Tuesday. He tells the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that management's offer was more generous than he expected.

Star arrived in the Twin Cities in 1980 and worked as a substitute host at KSTP and handicapped horses for the St. Paul Pioneer Press before landing a job filing horse-racing reports from Canterbury Park for WCCO in 1986.

WCCO Program Director Wendy Paulson tells the Pioneer Press that local folks will be filling the newly vacated 9 p.m.-1 a.m. slot while the station searches for Star's replacement.

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