Matt McCann

Matt McCann was born on September 16, 1960 in Chicago. He has been a well known radio station air-personality, program director and now a nationally known expert on long-term care insurance and long-term care planning and a well known speaker on long-term care issues. He was also a former Vice President and Divisional Sales Manager at national agencies who specialize in Long Term Care Insurance. Today he runs his own national agency, McCann Insurance Services, specializing in Long Term Health Care planning.

He attended Hinsdale South High School in Darien, Illinois. His love of radio started having grown up listening to legendary top 40 station WLS, Chicago. When he started high school at Hinsdale South High School he quickly joined the school's radio station, WHSD (88.5 FM). It was in high school that his radio career started.

While in high school McCann joined the school's FM radio station where he quickly became the station's student station manager. In 1976, McCann got his first chance at a commercial radio station landing a weekend on-air job at WKDC (AM), Elmhurst, Illinois. By the time his senior year started, he added a job working at another Chicago suburban station, WAUR (FM), Aurora, IL.

McCann decided to go to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. So in the fall of 1978 he moved to Carbondale where in 1982 he received his BS degree from SIUC. But while in school he worked, grabbing a job at WCIL & WCIL-FM, Carbondale.

When he did graduate in 1982, the owner of WCIL offered him the job of program director for WCIL.

In January 1986 it was time for him to leave southern Illinois and he accepted the program director's position at WLRW, Champaign, IL. McCann is crediting for putting this station on the map. This top 40 station dominated in ratings and revenue for years under his leadership.

Just a few months after the birth of his son, Joe McCann, he left for Des Moines, IA to take the program director's job at KRNQ, Des Moines in the fall of 1991.

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