Jon Cash dispels rumors about leaving WAVY-TV

Former WAVY-TV weatherman Jon Cash dispelled rumors Thursday about being fired from his job at the station.

The rumors, that Cash was fired because of a conflict between his work schedule and his personal religious ministry, have circulated on Facebook and other websites since he announced last week on his site that he was let go. 

“That’s just false,” Cash said during a broadcast Thursday on Positive Hit Radio The Current, a local religious station. Part of the broadcast was aired in a story on WTKR-TV late Thursday night.

“I want to tell everybody everything and let the chips fall where they may,” Cash said. “But there’s people a lot smarter than me that say, ‘this is what you do and this is what you don’t do.’ “

Cash wrote on his ministry website earlier this week that he plans to tell the nation why he was fired during a live broadcast next month.

For now, his site says, he was fired for “no just reason.”

He also wrote, "We are watching fellow brothers and sisters get fired for their faith in our God, or for our founding principles.” He went on to write, “Freedom cost me my job.”

He did not discuss Thursday whether his faith may have played a role in his leaving the station.

“I never talked about my faith on the air, at least, I can never remember that,” Cash told the station. “I was always the type of person that you do not do that.”

Cash told WTKR that he has “no unforgiveness” about being let go from the job he held for more than 20 years. He said he misses weather forecasting and the station’s viewers, but is happy to pursue his ministry full-time. Doug Davis, WAVY’s general manager, confirmed last week that Cash was no longer working there, but declined to give details.