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Imus Officially Back 12/3.

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Article is here.
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Wonder if he'll go local on a Citadel Station (WABC is Citadel) and if so will it hurt WILK's AM stuff?
 
Interesting move by ABC radio and I for one am glad Imus is back. Cross the line earlier this year...yes...deserved to be fired? Guess that one is for the lawyers out there. Will he impact the NY market, without a doubt. One of the great things about this country is our willingness to give someone a second chance and Imus deserves one as much as anyone. Impact on WILK, don't really know. Warm doesn't have much of a signal and Imus was never a big 12 plus draw anyway.
However, next to public radio, Imus had the largest audience in the big dollar demo. Influence in politicals, how about Bill Clinton? Remember, Clinton was an after thought before he stepped in front of the WFAN mics for an Imus interview.
Book sales...no one, no even Oprah could put or move a book onto the best sellers list like Imus.

Couple of questions, will Charles follow? What about Lou, Bernie and the rest?
 
In a way, it's not really a surprise. Farid Suleman and Imus have been friends going back to when Farid was
#2 man behind Mel at CBS/Viacom. What impact will it have here? If they put I-Man back on WARM it will have the same impact as before..Nada. It's unlikely that they would put him on the X, so where else would he go? I don't think he'll have any impact in NEPA whatsoever.
 
berniek said:
Interesting move by ABC radio and I for one am glad Imus is back. Cross the line earlier this year...yes...deserved to be fired? Guess that one is for the lawyers out there. Will he impact the NY market, without a doubt. One of the great things about this country is our willingness to give someone a second chance and Imus deserves one as much as anyone. Impact on WILK, don't really know. Warm doesn't have much of a signal and Imus was never a big 12 plus draw anyway.
However, next to public radio, Imus had the largest audience in the big dollar demo. Influence in politicals, how about Bill Clinton? Remember, Clinton was an after thought before he stepped in front of the WFAN mics for an Imus interview.
Book sales...no one, no even Oprah could put or move a book onto the best sellers list like Imus.

Couple of questions, will Charles follow? What about Lou, Bernie and the rest?

Charles definitely and Lou probably too. Bernie wasn't mentioned by name.

Actually this is his third of forth chance. Remember the drug thing where he abandoned his car on the GWB and ran across it? Helloooooo Cleveland!
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Nairda said:
Betcha he makes more mumbling than you ever did talking!
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Betcha his career far exceeds anyone's here including mine, period, end of sentence, case closed. Anyone here being discussed on a board about, oh, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, etc.? Let me answer that - NO!

I'm not a big fan, but the man is clearly very intelligent and well-read. He does what he does. You don't like it, don't listen. I won't, but only because he never moved me an inch.

Stern, OTOH, is hot because he's been lucky enough to have PDs over the years who've let him work as dirty as he likes. Imus can work clean and be entertaining and amusing. As for his moronic remarks of recent months, I don't think he should have been fired. Had his ass handed to him by whatever groups felt the need, but not fired.
 
masterg said:
Nairda said:
Betcha he makes more mumbling than you ever did talking!
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Betcha his career far exceeds anyone's here including mine, period, end of sentence, case closed. Anyone here being discussed on a board about, oh, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, etc.? Let me answer that - NO!

I'm not a big fan, but the man is clearly very intelligent and well-read. He does what he does. You don't like it, don't listen. I won't, but only because he never moved me an inch.

Stern, OTOH, is hot because he's been lucky enough to have PDs over the years who've let him work as dirty as he likes. Imus can work clean and be entertaining and amusing. As for his moronic remarks of recent months, I don't think he should have been fired. Had his ass handed to him by whatever groups felt the need, but not fired.
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Maybe he'll take on Dog The Bounty Hunter as a partner after Dog's been rehabilitated from his fall from grace.
 
It seems there was no syndication component of the deal released. As to Citadel O & O's, like WARM, it remains to be seen. His biggest market, ratings-wise outside of New York was Providence on Citadel's WPRO.So ending up back there seems likely.

As to his return to NEPA, after he pooped all over Scranton in the late 90's ( year anyone?)and his hissy-fit and refusal to broadcast,
Who cares?

I lost interest in him when his autobiography came out in the early 80s entitled " God's Other Son". He lost me that day.
Surely, he's a great broadcaster and a rich man, but a bit too ego-driven to suit my tastes.

That's why your radio has a tuning knob( or button).
 
I lost interest in him when his autobiography came out in the early 80s entitled " God's Other Son". He lost me that day. Surely, he's a great broadcaster and a rich man, but a bit too ego-driven to suit my tastes.
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Yep, I understand. Not to my taste either, but you really have to give this guy credit for being a huge part of our national radio landscape since the '70s. He's easily working on 30 years as an American radio icon, and you don't need to be loved to be an icon. Being an icon is more dependent upon maintaining - Imus qualifies.

Look, and this is for real, I got into radio in 1973 and Imus was one of the first names I recall. Lujack would be another, as would Sklar, Ingram, Morrow. Imus was top of the heap 34 years ago. Man, I so envy that. Still, I never much saw the allure with this guy.

The first time I ever heard Stern, I remember thinking, "So...what's the big deal?"

Old saying, but true; "There's no accounting for taste."
 
On the Imus Scranton thing, I think it was around 98 or 99, he was already on MSNBC at the time. God's Other Son was not an autobio of Imus, it was a novel based on the character of his...
 
this is all IMHO....Imus was the original shock jock; when he was at wnbc in the early 80's he had am drive and stern had pm drive and there was a war over who could get away with the most trash talk...Imus claim to fame is the fact that he was the first jock to say "p*nis" on the air...and stern carried it to the n'th degree...yeah I know these clowns are filthy rich to the degree we working stiffs couldn't even imagine, but how about having a morning show that was good, clean and popular on its own merit??? I'm probably almost alone in the fact that as a broadcast professional I don't go for trash talk on the radio I'm sure not a millionaire, but it still doesn't belong on the airwaves. of course, its supply and demand...as long as these garbage mouth morons are in demand people will listen. yeah I know about all the good Imus does,and respect that, but trash talk got him the $$$ to do this.....whatta hypocrite....


I feel better now....

flameproof suit on.... 8)

warm590 ;D
 
Yeah but he USED to do some really funny on-air stuff. Anyone remember 1200 hamburgers to go? Not a dirty word in it!
 
I enjoy humor just as much as the next person.. but i enjoy intelligent humor.. using curse words to tell a joke is the cheapest form of comedy. I grew up in NYC and listened to Imus over the years... Imus hasn't been funny in two decades... he's lived off the characters and personalities who've joined his show over the years.. they are much more funny and creative that he is. As WARM590 said, there's no place for it on the air.. I could be just as funny... IF I wanted to loose my morals and self respect. Imus is a washed up old fart!
 
Red Skelton once said that it takes no skill to get a laugh by dropping your pants. Bill Cosby became a great entertainer without resorting to filth. The clever jocks of the 60's & 70's got laughs and audiences without ever having to "drop their pants".
 
FYI the Imus/Scranton fiasco was in early 1999
I remember it because I was between jobs and waiting in line to see him when he crapped on all of us.
 
I admire the classic comedians... Imagine telling Howrd Stern to be funny without using obscene language or having naked women on his show and degrading them... it would be one of the shortest programs on the air! I admire Bill Cosby by his clean approach to comedy and his standing up to his racial equals by putting some of the blame back on "rappers" and role models that have set poor examples for children. Imus may have been funny at one time, but so was the pet rock... we've all become a little more sophisticated while his act has degraded significantly.
 
Please do not compare Stern to Imus....Stern's show is below the level of a 5th grader....most of what he did or still does is just for shock effect.

Imus gets into news and political humour like few others can. Yes he had his day or days of cursing on the air, but that is not where he was in the last couple of years. The parodies of Sen. Kennedy, Rush, Bubba Clinton were all done at the expense of these wind bags...who deserve the grief for their over inflated egos.
 
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