Tom Milroy, the amiable host of Saturday Morning with Tom Milroy on 680 CJOB, was vacationing in Palm Springs, Calif., in 2014 when he received a call from work. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Tom Milroy, the amiable host of Saturday Morning with Tom Milroy on 680 CJOB, was vacationing in Palm Springs, Calif.
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Milroy, who had caught on at the AM juggernaut a year earlier, 11 months after being let go from 99.9 BOB-FM, stared down at his phone. “Ooh, this can’t be good,” he murmured to his wife, Maureen.
The veteran radio personality became even more confused when he picked up, only to discover their son Kyle, a technical producer at ’OB, was on the line, along with his then-boss Scott Pettigrew. Ruth Bonneville / Free Press Tom Milroy isn’t quite ready to consider retirement. He will mark his 50th year in the radio business in 2026 and can still be heard every Saturday morning on CJOB.
“All I could think of was that I was being canned again, and that they wanted Kyle to be a witness,” Milroy says, seated in San Vito Coffee House on Portage Avenue, one of the favourite haunts of father of two and grandfather of two. He needn’t have fr.