OUCH!: Three weeks into his new job at KTRS (AM-550), radio bad boy J.C. Corcoran got a critical note from a listener and, in return, fired off a vulgar email with a profanity in which he called the man a dope and his wife a beast.
Unfortunately, the listener -- make that former listener -- Floyd Brookman of Mt. Vernon, Ill., lost his wife, Susan, to a heart attack five months ago.
Brookman, 57, former executive director of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, sent J.C. an email yesterday about 11 a.m. that started out: "We traded Chas. Jaco for this? Really?"
After a little back and forth with J.C., Brookman wrote: "I'm intelligent enough to recognize a desperate washed up hard rock DJ when I hear one and THAT sounds like someone I know."
That's when J.C. let go with the following rant: "Then why do I make so much more money than you? And why is my wife hotter than the beast you have to crawl in on top of every night? And why am I a celebrity in this town and you're some dope named ..... FLOYD? You see, dip-**** ... unlike you, I have a life to get back to. So, bye-bye, sucker. You're blocked from this point forward. I'll never see another one of your dumb messages. FLOYD!!!! HA ha hah ha .... "
Brookman said today that he sent the email on a whim because he was a fan of Jaco's, who was let go and replaced with J.C. on Oct. 25. J.C., who has worked at 12 local radio and TV stations during his 26 1/2 years in St. Louis, had been off the air for a year before starting his three-hour-long daily show at KTRS on Oct. 25.
Over the years, J.C. has had a bumpy career that has included a couple of conflicts with the Federal Communications Commission and frequent suspensions and firings for his insulting remarks, denigrating comments and sexual suggestiveness.
Brookman said he complained to KTRS general manager Tim Dorsey and was advised to "let this go." But Brookman said: "I wll not tolerate attempts by this self-ordained celebrity to insult me or the memory of my wife for one moment."
Dorsey said he apologized to Brookman on behalf of the station but that Brookman refused his apology and said he wanted a personal apology from J.C. Dorsey said he relayed the message to J.C. but that he didn't know what the radio jock planned to do. He said he would "absolutely not" fire J.C. over the issue.
"If J.C. wants to call him to apologize he'll call him to apologize," Dorsey said. "No one knew that the man's wife was deceased. I would never have sent a note like that to anyone in a billion years, but, different strokes for different folks."
J.C. did not return messages seeking comment.
