Jason Bailey let go from Rock 100.5

Jason Bailey has been dropped as a morning host on Rock 100.5 after seven years.

His co-host “Southside Steve” Rickman remains. Afternoon host and program director Axel Lowe is subbing in this week with Rickman.

Bailey made the announcement this week on Facebook.

“And so is (radio) life .... I just breathed my final breath at Rock 100.5 / Atlanta. It was a good run with a lot of ups and downs. No doubt it was definitely time for me to move on from this part of my life/ career,” he wrote. “With that said. I wish nothing but the best to the show, station and management in their future endeavors. God, I’ve always wanted to say that!! Time for a mental recharge before I move on.”

Market manager Sean Shannon declined to comment.

On his Black Cloud podcast Wednesday with his former producer Nate Hanson, who recently left the morning show, Bailey said he was fired and did not quit.

He said it was ‘fine and it was refreshing. They gave me the bullet that was already in the gun pointing at my head. I was miserable. It was nobody’s fault but my own.”

Explaining why he was let go, he said didn’t gel well with management anymore and complained that he “wasn’t surrounded by creative people. There was no oomph for the show.”

He said if he had been more a team player, more “complacent,” he might have stuck around longer.

“I’m not mad at anybody, Bailey added. “I hope they’re not mad at me. The people that suffer the most is the audience... I did everything I can. I guess I didn’t do enough. For that, I apologize.”

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