Erin Davis signs off after 28 years on air Briefly

Longtime CHFI morning host Erin Davis announced Wednesday she is signing off the air after a nearly 28-year radio career.

Davis, 54, was joined in-studio by her husband Rob Whitehead as she delivered a tearful on-air message to thank listeners and her “Rogers family” and announce her plans.

“Our hearts are full of sadness and gratitude, of hope and even of some excitement,” said Davis. “There are a lot of reasons to go and to stay, and I want you to know the hardest part of leaving is not sharing every morning with you, the friends that I’ve never met and the many that I have, the people that have been so good, so very good to our little family over the years.”

Davis’s final show will take place Dec. 15, broadcast live from Casa Loma.

She said she would continue to be part of CHFI in some capacity. After working morning-show hours since she was 19, Davis, an Edmonton native who joined CHFI in 1988, said she was “excited too about sleeping in a little.”

Davis and her husband plan to move to British Columbia, where they have family, she wrote in a blog post on her website. In May 2015, Davis’s daughter Lauren died in her sleep at age 24, leaving behind a son, Colin, who had not yet turned 1.

Davis said she hopes retiring and relocating will help her and Rob move on with their lives after a devastating time.

Davis estimated she’s been on the air “some 8,000 mornings (minus vacation and a brief sabbatical here and there).” She was briefly let go in 2003 and went on to host her own TV show, W Live With Erin Davis, on the W Network.

She returned to Toronto radio the following year as a morning show host of EZ-Rock. In 2005, CHFI brought Davis, as well as co-host Mike Cooper, back to the station. Cooper retired earlier this year and Davis has since hosted alongside Darren B. Lamb. Sammy Hudes

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