Daryn Kagan

I thought he was calling me up to tell me what a great job my team and I did on breaking news that day, which I assure you we did because we were very good at that.

Yes.

And instead he called me up and he said, your contract is up the end of this year.

And I want to let you know we're not going to renew you.

But I'm not going to let you go.

I'd like for you to stay.

Well, I think I would.

I'll let you know.

So every day I came to work after that for like nine months.

I didn't know if that was going to be the last day that I spent.

I mean, I'd spent 12 years there, which was a little stressful.

But it also was a gift because I didn't know the thing.

I hadn't figured out the thing I was going to go do next.

So it was kind of quiet.

And then about Labor Day, they called me and they said, OK, now we're sure.

Now we know we're going to let you go.

And then that was it.

But what's so unusual about that, usually with on-air people, you know, when you're done, you're done that day because they don't want to kind of put you on the air and... Let you say whatever you want.

And I never asked why.

People go, well, why did they let you go?