Former KISS-FM morning radio host Otis Day testified for three hours May 22 during a tense hearing in a restraining order case filed by WIXX-FM’s Natalie Jansen, though the hearing ended without resolution.
Day, whose legal name is Richard Dey, was part of “KISS-FM Mornings with Otis, Katie and Nick,” along with co-hosts Katie Schurk and Nick Vitrano – a lineup that had been on the air since June 2024. KISS-FM announced Day’s departure from the company April 9, two weeks after Jansen filed a restraining order petition against Day.
Jansen, a host on WIXX morning show “Huggie, Natalie & Corey,” filed two temporary restraining order/injunction petitions in Brown County Circuit Court on March 23. One was filed against Day and one was filed against Emily Chagnon of Marion. Jansen said she has never met or communicated with either Day or Chagnon, according to the petitions.
The petitions say Chagnon ran a now-inactive Facebook page called “Tiw’s Day Hollaback XXIW” and used a fake Facebook account under the name “Sally Gibson” to harass Jansen for nearly two years. The petitions say Day communicated with Chagnon about the harassment, supporting and encouraging Chagnon’s actions.
During his testimony May 22, Day repeatedly said he was not involved with the page or any harassment of Jansen. He said he supported the page being used as a place for WIXX and its company to be “called out,” but that he thought the page eventually “went a little far” and got too personal. Day described a post about a custody case involving Jansen’s child as “over the line” and said he stopped looking at or interacting with the page “when it got wild.”
The petition says the Facebook posts escalated Sept. 7, 2025, with a post that included a photo taken of Jansen without her knowledge while at a work event and the text, “Today at Lambeau, Natalie strolled right past without a clue that she was within two feet of royalty. The Troll King himself. Too busy pretending to be on the phone to notice the common folk. Don’t worry, Natalie, I snapped the evidence.”
Jansen said she reported this incident to law enforcement as it indicated “I was being followed or monitored by an unknown individual.” Investigators determined Chagnon was running the Facebook page, according to the petition.
The petitions ask the court to order temporary restraining orders and four-year injunctions – a judicial order that directs someone to do something or stop doing something – against Day and Chagnon with the following stipulations:
The petition against Chagnon also asks to specifically stipulate Chagnon not post about Jansen on social media as herself or under any aliases.
The temporary restraining orders were approved March 23, according to court records. An initial injunction hearing was held April 3 and a subsequent hearing was held May 22 to continue testimony in the case.
According to discussion at the May 22 hearing, the only testimony at the April 3 hearing came from a law enforcement office who investigated the Facebook page. That officer was unable to finish his testimony due to time constraints.
Day was the only person to testify at the May 22 hearing and also did not finish his testimony due to time constraints. The officer and Day will finish testifying at a July 17 hearing. Jansen’s attorney Mark McGinnis said there were several other witnesses he may also want to call.
The hearing was filled with objections about argumentativeness. Within the first two minutes of Day’s testimony, he said he felt McGinnis’ approach to questioning was “very antagonistic.” Later in the hearing, Day’s attorney, A.J. Williams, described McGinnis’ questioning as “aggressive.”
McGinnis asked Court Commissioner Kate Zuidmulder multiple times to tell Day not to ask of questions of McGinnis and to answer questions straightforwardly. McGinnis also expressed frustration over objections interrupting questions. About 40 minutes into the hearing, McGinnis said, “These objections are getting tired and they’re misleading.”
Zuidmulder had to interrupt testimony several times to diffuse arguing between McGinnis and Day, as well as between McGinnis and the attorneys for Day and Chagnon.
There was no resolution in the case at the end of the three-hour hearing. Zuidmulder reserved eight hours July 17 to address the case and said she hopes it is resolved by the end of that hearing.
Primary questions Zuidmulder needs to decide on are whether Chagnon’s posts constituted harassment or if they were protected under the First Amendment, and whether Day’s communications with Chagnon rise to the level of being part of any alleged harassment.
Questioning focused on Day’s credibility
McGinnis said his line of questioning was focused on assessing Day’s credibility as a witness, including about the times Day said he didn’t have knowledge of the Facebook page.
Referring to a police report and the officer’s testimony, McGinnis asked Day if he lied to police when he initially told them he had never communicated with Chagnon. Day testified he knew that statement was false when he said it.
McGinnis also played a voicemail Day left the wife of an WIXX employee on April 18, 2025, after McGinnis said WIXX began looking into Jansen’s concerns about the Facebook page. McGinnis said the employee was concerned Day was involved.
In the voicemail, Day says he does not run the page, that he doesn’t know who runs it, that he is appalled by “almost everything” posted on it, that he is “as far away from that page as I possibly can” be and described the page as “nuts.”
McGinnis asked Day why he lied in the voicemail about not knowing who ran the page. McGinnis asked if Day was trying to protect himself, protect Chagnon or protect the page so it could continue; all questions Day answered “no” to.
Day said multiple times throughout his testimony that he wished he would have done or said something to make the posts stop and that he didn’t know why he did not, but that he “got embarrassed because the page got personal.”
McGinnis said he will ask Day about specific communications with Chagnon and posts on the Facebook page in the future, but wanted to first address his credibility as McGinnis believed Zuidmulder would “notice that Mr. Day isn’t being honest as he’s under the witness stand right now.”
Examples of posts, messages presented
Throughout questioning, McGinnis referred to examples of posts on the Facebook page and messages between Chagnon and Day. Toward the end of the hearing, McGinnis asked Day about the September post that prompted Jansen to report the page to law enforcement.
McGinnis said the officer testified April 3 that video footage showed Chagnon was the one to take the photo of Jansen near Lambeau Field and that she appeared to be standing “within feet” of Jansen when she took it.
McGinnis asked Day whether he thought this post was “across the line,” like Day said the post about Jansen’s custody case was. Day said he didn’t know, that the post was “close to the line” and that it was “a tough one” to decide on.
“It appears that she’s publicly working at a public event. So I, you know, I don’t know if that really crosses the line,” Day said. “It’s not great. I don’t love it when people snap pictures of me when I’m eating.”
McGinnis also highlighted a message from Chagnon to Day from approximately two months into their communications. The message, in part, said, “Now I have my new entertainment. Pissing Natalie off. It won’t take much to break her.”
Day said that at that time, he often skimmed the messages from Chagnon and didn’t recall what he was thinking when he first read that message. In hindsight, Day testified he thought having the purpose of the page be to “break” Jansen was inappropriate, wrong and malicious.
Day said that he never told Chagnon not to try and break Jansen, never told her it was wrong or inappropriate and never told her to stop. When asked why, he said he didn’t know and that “I wish I would have.”
Vivian Barrett is the public safety reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. You can reach her at vmbarrett@usatodayco.com or (920) 431-8314.
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