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And this year's 2019 Millard S. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award from St. Louis Public Radio will go to ... absolutely no one.

Longtime broadcaster Don Marsh — who was told some months ago he would receive the award — quit KWMU (90.7 FM) in late March after a producer criticized the way he addressed former news anchor Karen Foss.

Awkwardly enough, invitations to "Talk Toast Taste," an annual awards banquet set for May 2 at the Four Seasons Hotel, already had been mailed.

And guess what? Marsh will be a no-show.

"I'm not going to be there," Marsh said. "Accepting that award, or even awarding it to me now, would be inappropriate."

KWMU general manager Tim Eby said the award would not be given out this year.

The flap between Marsh and the station began March 26, when Foss, who retired in 2006 as anchor for KSDK-TV (Channel 5), was his guest on "St. Louis on the Air."