CINCINNATI (FOX19) – Two DJs who’ve been on Cincinnati radio for greater than 40 years introduced Monday that they’re signing off at 12 months’s finish.
Chris O’Brien and Janeen Coyle have co-hosted “Married with Microphones” on WGRR-FM (103.5) mornings for 28 years, since 1995.
Their final present can be on Dec. 22, they stated in separate Fb posts.
The couple met after they started working collectively at WKRQ-FM (Q102) in 1979 and acquired married within the Eighties.
O’Brien labored the “Q Morning Zoo” whereas Coyle labored in a single day.
He left WKRQ for WGRR in 1991 and Coyle adopted in 1995, in response to WGRR’s web site.
“This morning Janeen and I introduced that after 28 years, our Married with Microphones morning present will come to an finish this December. After my 32 years at WGRR and Janeen’s 28, we’ve determined to unplug the headphones and flip off the mic swap for the final time at 12 months’s finish,” O’Brien wrote in his put up.
“We can not even start to thanks, our listeners, on your loyalty…lots of you following us since our Q102 days of the 70s and 80s. We’ll miss you, however we’re not finished but. Our final present can be Friday, December twenty second.”
Coyle’s posted the identical announcement as her husband on her Fb web page after which added a little bit joke:
“Be happy to purchase me a going away Christmas reward!”
Each of their posts have been shared a number of instances and generated greater than 200 feedback together with:
- “What an unimaginable run! It’s actually the tip of an period however you need to take pleasure in retirement. Congratulations!”
- “Congrats…Can’t and won’t overlook once you saved me and plenty of of my bus passengers entertained on the TANK. (Particularly Battle of the Sexes) within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. You’ll be sorely missed.”
- “Take pleasure in sleeping in on these crummy winter days! Congratulations you may be missed!”
- “I knew it! Once I heard your teaser for an enormous announcement approaching the twenty third; deep in my coronary heart I felt it was going to be your retirements. As a matter of reality, for the previous couple of years, I held my breath, at any time when I heard “we now have an enormous announcement, Monday.” Normally it was a few live performance coming to city or a contest. Nicely, it’s unhappy for us listeners/followers, however fantastic for you two. Having to be at your microphones at 5 a.m., each weekday morning, needed to be the pits for 32 years. You know the way a lot I’ve loved you, Chris & you, Janeen. However, that is your time to take pleasure in one another and do no matter you need & go wherever & everytime you need. We are going to survive. You two will loosen up. Dwell lengthy and prosper!”
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