After Resigning, Don Marsh Turns Down Lifetime Achievement Award From St. Louis Public Radio

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The acrimony accompanying "ST. LOUIS ON THE AIR" host DON MARSH's exit from UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS News-Talk KWMU (ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO)/ST. LOUIS has extended to the station's upcoming awards banquet, with the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH's JOE HOLLEMAN reporting that MARSH, upset by his treatment over a comment he made to a guest that drew a complaint from a producer, will not accept the station's 2019 MILLARD S. COHEN Lifetime Achievement Award.

The longtime host and former news anchor at crosstown ABC and, later, FOX affiliate KTVI and ABC affiliate KDNL-TV, 80, quit the station in MARCH after 13 1/2 years hosting the show, saying that managers at KWMU asked him at a meeting about telling a guest, former crosstown NBC affiliate KSDK-TV anchor KAREN FOSS, that she "looked great," prompting a complaint by a station producer.  FOSS subsequently posted a comment on FACEBOOK defending MARSH for greeting her with the comment "you look great."  KWMU management said that they did not ask MARSH to resign.

"I'm not going to be there," MARSH told HOLLEMAN about the "Talk Toast Taste" event scheduled for MAY 2nd. "Accepting that award, or even awarding it to me now, would be inappropriate."  GM TIM EBY told HOLLEMAN that the award would not be given out this year.

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