NEPA Radio: DJ Resigns Amid 'Alt-Right' Uproar

Dave Reilly

WHLM 930 AM Bloomsburg Radio DJ David Reilly has resigned from the radio station run by his parents in response to angry protests and an advertiser exodus over his involvement in Saturday’s deadly protest-turned-riot in Charlottesville, Va.

In a letter of resignation posted Wednesday evening on the WHLM website, the young Reilly said he was quitting “out of charity towards the community, and especially towards my parents, Nancy and Joe Reilly.”

A day earlier, David had been suspended without pay pending “a full internal investigation regarding allegations brought against” him, according to Joe Reilly, David’s father, an on-air personality and the public face of the station.

David’s critics alleged that his coverage of the Charlottesville gathering, which included an interview with one of the organizers, was sympathetic to the white-power marchers and amounted to promotion of their point of view. In addition to his now former positions as a deejay and new media director at WHLM, David Reilly posted video and commentary online as Dave Reilly Media.

Bloomsburg Stand Against Hate, a Facebook page created this week by critics of David Reilly and WHLM, claimed yesterday that the advertiser exodus now numbers 36 businesses and organizations, listed on the group’s page.

Members of the group, which has some 350 followers, say they’ve been contacting businesses that advertise with WHLM, urging them to cut ties.

“This isn’t over, folks. We need an actual apology,” Bloomsburg Stand Against Hate announced Wednesday after learning of David’s resignation.

“We need an actual apology and a concerted effort from Joe Reilly to tone down his daily hateful rhetoric.” The elder Reilly hosts the morning show on the station, which simulcasts on three FM translators in Bloomsburg, Berwick and Danville, PA.

After two nights of demonstrations in front of the station’s East Main Street studio in Bloomsburg, there was no evidence of a protest Wednesday evening.