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February 9, 2021
Corey McGriff, A Life that Mattered
DJ Megatron Fondly RememberedIt’s hard to believe that this year will make ten years that have passed since NYC’s DJ Megatron, Corey McGriff was gunned down in a senseless crime near his apartment on Staten Island in March of 2011.
A month had passed since his tragic murder and my desk phone rang at CBS Radio in NYC, where I had the privilege of programming 92.3 Now at the time. On the other end of the call was Corey’s mom, but why would she have been calling me?
I didn’t take my position in NYC lightly or for granted, as I had learned that part of my role as a person who was given great authority was that with that came greater responsibility. And believe it or not, I didn’t learn that from watching a Spiderman movie.
In 1999 I had lost a PD job in New Orleans and just days after that I was interviewing for a job in Columbus OH to program a legendary Top 40. The GM told me what he’d pay me to do that job, and it was 30k less than I was making at the station that had just let me go.
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