Day #1 - 10/16/97

Well, we got fired today: "Corey, Jay & Desiray" the former morning show at WLTF-FM, Cleveland. Jay and I came here a little over 2 years ago from Q94, Richmond. Jay and I have worked together for 8 years now. The station added Desiray a few weeks after we got here.

Either I was on the phone all day or the phone rang when I wasn't on it. Lots of support from friends, including "Jeff & Flash" - former dominant morning men at WMMS-FM, the Buzzard. (They were fired from our sister AM station last week! Been some month around here, huh?)

Anyway, Jay and I feel like we've been paroled from prison. We loved doing our show (when we were allowed to do our show)....but with the station up for sale during most of our tenure and then finally sold (not to mention a myriad of inane decisions that were made prior to the JACOR takeover), it just wasn't fun anymore. It was painful, very painful.

We've actually been living under the gun for a year.....more so the last 6 weeks. We found out the firing was coming a couple of days ago. Despite that, we're proud of one thing: EVERYDAY we went in, we did the best damn show we could. Even this morning we knew 15 minutes after we got off the air, we're were gonna get canned but we still put everything we had into today's show because we're professionals. We kept our dignity and took the termination with smiles. We know it's business, not personal.

Jim Meltzer, the station GM that JACOR put in place is a decent guy. If you ever get a chance to work with him, you won't be sorry.

Anyway, I've got plenty of time now...so I'll probably update my diary everyday. I've got a few things to tie up around here and then I'm moving back to Virginia. My wife and kids have been there all this time. Having gone through this before, we played it very safe this time and everytime a warning flag went up, we put the move on hold. I guess it payed off. I still have my home, my kids' schooling hasn't been disrupted and my wife didn't give up her job. Obviously, there was a big tradeoff on our family life and my personal life. I can't tell you how difficult that aspect of this has been.