Radio property Donna D, who joined the Jesse Duran In The Morning! show connected KOLA 99.9 FM successful February 2018, bid a tearful goodbye to her vigor household connected Thursday, Sept. 23.
Donna DeCoster archetypal came to the Redlands-based KOLA and sister presumption KCAL 96.7 FM successful August 2017, handing play shifts and filling successful arsenic needed elsewhere connected the air.
DeCoster is leaving for a occupation astatine a nonprofit that volition let her to enactment from home, she announced connected the aerial connected Thursday, Sept. 23, 1 time earlier her last displacement connected Friday.
“Donna is going to beryllium leaving our show,” Duran said. “And you’re leaving connected your own; you evidently person a large accidental to pursue. This is going to beryllium truly hard connected myself and each of our listeners, but it’s highly hard for you.”
DeCoster, struggling to constitute herself, agreed.
“It has been an affectional rollercoaster obviously,” she said. “I didn’t get 1 connection retired earlier I started crying. This has not been casual to permission a occupation that you emotion truthful much.
“And you guys, Jesse, you’re similar my champion person here,” DeCoster said.
“We’ve had a large clip together, Donna,” helium replied.
“You person annoyed the crap retired of maine galore times,” she answered, laughing. “But I person ne'er had a amended cohost successful my vigor career. So that is saying thing to you. I volition miss you awfully.”
DeCoster said her archetypal halt volition beryllium Cincinnati to beryllium with her duplicate sister and family. DeCoster’s nephew, who is besides her godson, and his woman are expecting a babe successful January, truthful that volition support her present successful Ohio astatine slightest until then, she told listeners.
“And past I’m gonna walk immoderate clip connected a formation somewhere,” she said.
DeCoster is simply a vigor veteran, who worked astatine KXKL “KOOL” 105 successful Denver earlier landing astatine KOLA. The caller gig, though, was excessively bully not to take, she said.
“I deliberation erstwhile an accidental comes that is astir excessively bully to walk up you gotta jump, and that’s what I’m doing,” DeCoster said.
“I’ve ne'er been portion of a vigor presumption that’s been specified a family,” she said. “It’s been truthful wonderful. If you’ve ever had to discontinue a occupation that you emotion it is tortuous connected immoderate level.
“It’s breathtaking and it’s awesome, and you’ve got to instrumentality chances successful beingness too, but this is hard.