Radio remembers Jen Myers – RadioInsight

Longtime Audacy Hot AC “Y98” KYKY St. Louis personality Jennifer “Jen Myers” Farmer passed away on Thursday, October 24, at the age of 49 after an eight-year battle with stage 4 breast cancer.

Originally from Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo, New York, she began her career at CBS Radio Modern AC.Alice 92.9“WLCE Buffalo in 1998. Myers then moved to Saga Hot AC”Star 102.5KSTZ Des Moines as music director and midday host in November 1999 before returning to CBS in January 2002 to assume the role of music director and morning co-anchor on KYKY. In March 2021, she was promoted to assistant program director of KYKY and AC 102.5 KEZK while moving from mornings to middays at “Y98“.

She would leave the station in April 2022 to focus on her health. At the time she wrote: “My breast cancer metastasized to my lungs in 2018 and reached stage 4. I recently started a new course of chemotherapy which is not pretty. I hope this treatment helps, but it is also not a cure for this disease. We’re putting a lot of hope in things right now.”

Becky Domyan, SVP/Market Manager of Audacy St. Louis, wrote in an Instagram post: “We lost a beloved member of our radio family and community today. Jen was an absolute warrior and used her time and energy to help others every day. even if she wasn't feeling well. It is a great honor to be able to work with her as her positive influence on so many people has been profound. She was always selfless beyond measure and was a shining, bright light to anyone and everyone she came in contact with.”

She is survived by her husband, Ryan; children, Finn and Nora; her parents, in-laws and several nieces and nephews.