Out here in LA, there was a long time radio duo that split up because they hated each other's guts. They hated each other so much, they wouldn't even sit in the same room together, and the two did radio from different studios. (No, seriously)

Eventually it got to be too much, and the show was terminated.

One of the hosts returned to the air with Adam Carolla's co-host, and continued to do radio for two years. (Sound familiar?)

The radio station decided that he was too expensive, and rather than end the show, they just fired the primary host of the show. (Adam Carolla's co-host is still the co-host, they just found a new (cheaper) person to be the main mic.)

http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160802/mark-in-the-morning-going-off-the-air-announces-radio-host-mark-thompson

“Mark in the Morning,” the morning radio show that brought popular DJ Mark Thompson back on the air in Los Angeles in February 2015, will end on Wednesday after the Sound (KSWD-FM/100.3) decided it needed more music and less talk and comedy during its weekday mornings.

As breakups go, this one seems to have gone down as amicably, if nonetheless teary, as one could hope. As described by Thompson and station officials on Tuesday, they love and respect each other but it was just time for a change.

And so Thompson, who for 27 years until August 2012 co-hosted “The Mark and Brian Show” with Brian Phelps on KLOS-FM/95.5, will leave morning radio in L.A. for a second time. His influence on the Sound will continue, whether through talent he hired who will stay on – including Gina Grad, a co-host in the morning, and his daughter Katie Thompson – or possibly special programming he might do for the Sound in the future.

Thompson, who frequently did the broadcast from his home in North Carolina, said he learned of the show’s fate last week in a meeting with station general manager Peter W. Burton and program director Dave Beasing.

“Last week I was in L.A. and Peter and Dave and I had a meeting,” Thompson said. “And Peter goes, ‘I’m going to say something and you’re not going to like it.’

“I have learned when a conversation begins with that ... whatever is behind it is just not good.”

Thompson said that his bosses explained that their research showed they needed to play a lot more music in the morning than they were doing during “Mark in the Morning,” which as Thompson had done with the Mark and Brian Show, included interviews with celebrities, comedy bits, in-studio banter, and Katie Thompson’s offbeat reports from out and about in Los Angeles.

“To which I replied, ‘Well, you don’t need me,’ which was the point of the conversation,” Thompson said. “There were tears. Not from Peter, he’s a soulless pig” – to which everyone in the studio, including Burton, laughed.

“I will be stepping away,” he continued, his voice choking up as he fought to control his emotions. “Tomorrow is our last show. We did this right, hired all the best people. As I reflect back, what I’m going to be proud of is how well we did.

“What I don’t know is Thursday, when I get up, what am I gonna do? My heart hurts. I’ve never had a job where there wasn’t some (jerk) that I hated. I love every one of you.”

Thompson mentioned a few projects he might do, including “Cool Stories In Music,” a syndicated weekend show he’ll soon launch to dive deep into the stories behind a song, an album or a band, and which the Sound intends to pick up, according to a statement released by the station.

“Thank you for the last year and half,” Burton told Thompson. “You’re an incredible talent. You have an incredible family. It’s been awesome getting to know you, and I hope this for us is not goodbye. I want very badly for you to still be involved here with us.”

Added Beasing: “It gets said sometimes in business, ‘We’re family, we’re family.’ This station is family and you are forever a member of the Sound family.”

Thompson thanked them, and thanked them for letting him say goodbye before disappearing from the air, too.

“I will tell you, when you fire a guy you don’t let him back in the control room, you don’t let him near a mic because you don’t know what he will say,” Thompson noted.

The final “Mark In The Morning” airs from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wednesday. “Andy & Gina in the Morning” will fill that the morning time slot starting Thursday, with Gina Grad and Andy Chanley, both of them former co-hosts of “Mark in the Morning,” playing a lot more music while retaining some of the elements from the previous show.