After nearly 20 years on the Kelowna airwaves, Andy James and Tamara Lindsay, known to most radio listeners as Andy and TJ, have called it quits. The couple announced Friday morning that they are retiring as hosts of CKOV-FM 103.9 The Lake morning show to devote their energies full-time to their emerging independent voice through their business weddingwithmics.com. “It’s been a great run, what a great community. We’re truly blessed with people sharing their lives and us with them,” James told Castanet News. “We’ve been to hell and back, and honestly, working with Paul (Larson) restored our faith in an industry that has become so homogenized. And, that was so refreshing because before working with Paul we had really bad taste .” Both have been in radio for about 35 years, taking the mic together to form Andy and TJ’s morning show on SILK-FM in the early 2000s. They went out of business for a while before returning when Larson released The Lake in May of last year. “We knew we wanted to pull the pin sooner rather than later. The hours and trying to do both at the same time, especially when we have agents in New York and a lot of auditions come early in the morning. “You can’t dance with two people at once.” For his part, Larson, who bought the assets of Soft 103.9 after it filed for bankruptcy in March 2020, said he is still working on a replacement plan for the morning show. Tim Black will host the morning show in the interim after the long weekend. “It’s been an absolute honor to have Kelowna’s biggest morning show and two of this community’s most well-known and beloved personalities be a part of our radio station since we launched 15 months ago,” Larson said in a statement. “There’s no doubt that The Lake’s success is largely due to Andy & TJ hosting our morning show and they will be sorely missed.” “As a fellow small business owner, I wish them nothing but the best of luck in their pursuit of growing their own business and enjoying retirement.”
