NY Times On Imus: It's Possbile That He Could Emerge On Satellite Radio
Off the Air: The Light Goes Out for Don Imus
By
BILL CARTER and
JACQUES STEINBERG, The New York Times, Apr 13
CBS brought a weeklong confrontation over a racial and sexual insult by the radio host
Don Imus to an end yesterday when it canceled the “Imus in the Morning” program, effective immediately.
The move came a day after the cable television network MSNBC, a
General Electric unit that has simulcast Mr. Imus’s radio program for the last 10 years, removed the show from its morning lineup. The two moves, taken together, mean that Mr. Imus, who has been broadcasting the program for more than 30 years, no longer has a home on either national radio or television.
It is possible, though, that he could re-emerge on satellite radio.
Mr. Imus received the news at home in a telephone call. Many of his listeners learned of it during the afternoon radio show “Mike and the Mad Dog,” which announced it on WFAN, the CBS-owned New York station that also carried Mr. Imus’s program.
The CBS chief executive,
Leslie Moonves, met yesterday afternoon with the Rev.
Al Sharpton and the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, leaders in what became a national movement to remove Mr. Imus from the air in the wake of his comments disparaging members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. On April 4, Mr. Imus referred on the air to the Rutgers athletes as “nappy-headed hos.”...read more:
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