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I stuck by Q as it rebranded to q and tried to rebuild from the ashes. I was sympathetic as Shad struggled to find his rhythm as a host and interviewer. Despite the troubles, however, this regrowth period gave listeners some wonderful and weird content. And so the show lumbered on, and I with it.

When the CBC announced Tom Power would be replacing Shad as the host of q, I breathed a sigh of relief. Power is smart, likeable, and warm, and he has a friendliness that seems almost tangible over the radio waves. I thought he would be the saviour to wrap us all up in a big Newfoundland hug and restore qto its former glory.

Power opened his very first show as qhost in the most boring way imaginable – a slow, sombre interview with the slow, sombre Adam Cohen. I hoped this was a mere blip on the new upward trajectory, but it turned out to be an accurate portrayal of what the new q was going to be: a two-hour music-heavy and Frankensteined collection of pre-recorded, uninteresting interviews with boring guests and an anxious host.

I listened, appalled but faithful, for the first few weeks. But the elimination of weekly show anchors like the Friday Live guest and the Wednesday Pop-Culture Panel, in addition to the lacklustre content, proved too much. It dawned on me that this content shift was intentional, and that maybe I was no longer the show’s target audience.

It was with a heavy heart that last week, for the first time since 2008, I decided to stop listening to q.

I’ve been trying to understand why I feel so angry. It feels unfair that I have been so loyal and committed, yet q has outgrown me. I feel betrayed, never having been asked what I wanted, and instead given material that keeps the host safe in his wheelhouse. I feel abandoned by a show that has meant so much to me, where now my patronage is unwanted.

I miss q. I will always remember it for what it was, and mourn for what it could’ve been.

Jillian Sexton is a Newfoundland ex-pat and writer and editor living in Ottawa. Her Twitter handle is @Jillisant