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Is Dagmar Midcap leaving WGCL?

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Aug 19, 2010

By RODNEY HO, originally filed on August 19, 2010

Newsblues.com is reporting that popular WGCL-TV CBS Atlanta weather reader Dagmar Midcap is leaving the station later this year, citing an unnamed inside tipster.

Midcap declined to comment and  her news director Steve Schwaid is on vacation.  Midcap joined the station around since 2006 and despite her lack of meteorology credentials, became popular for her looks, fashion and warm, silky voice. The station at one point even placed her on billboards around town.

I also left a message with Schwaid's boss Kirk Black.

Doug Richards, before he joined WXIA-TV, on his Live Apartment Fire, dubbed her popularity the "Cult of Dagmar."

ExploreHere's a photo gallery of Dagmar.

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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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