WILL DON IMUS GET ON SACRAMENTO AIR?

[BTSF]

With Imus possibly debuting on WABC/NY on December 3rd, and Citadel possibly offering him nationally, would he find an opening in Sacramento? He was here about a decade ago, and had over 60 stations when he blew everything up in April.

 

[salesslap]

My guess is no...He was on mornings at KHTK when it was known as "Hot Talk 1140" and delivered low numbers. Subsequently, he was replaced by The Rise Guys. I can't think of a likely home for Imus in Sac. Anyone?
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[coppersmom]

hell he could replace me on KSAC!!!

 

[Stage5Clinger]

Do we really need anymore sucky talk shows in this market? And wasn't he like 18th or 19th in his slot when he was on here? Maybe Sun City in Roseville has a station.

 

[BTSF]

Ms. Craft...we all know you simply can't be replaced....especially by Imus....

I haven't a clue as to what station would pick Imus up...he was third among
NYC morning talk shows, with very good numbers in CT and parts of NJ.

Perhaps my glaring inability to conform to PC Police regulations led me to
watch live or tape "Imus In The Morning" on MSNBC {even when the TV
staff butted in and made a tech mess of it} virtually every weekday...

My view, as a middle-aged white guy, was that it was a locker-room comedy
show that also featured some interesting interviews with leading politicos,
authors, celebs....yes, the Rutgers comments were awful, and much of the
comedy was racial if not racist...but it was, first and foremost, a low-comedy
program, so I didn't take it seriously. Perhaps Howard Stern's advice to Imus
when it all hit the fan was right: "Tell 'em, "F*** You, it was a JOKE!"

When the show became a TV/Radio deal, it was altered in ways that hurt its
radio value. One of the changes was to quit their recorded parodies, some
of which were laugh out loud hysterical.

I know Imus in 1996 didn't compete well in this market, but somehow I doubt
the station lost any money on it....I rarely heard a spot block littered with PSAs,
and there were some fairly loyal local advertisers.

Oh, well...I wonder if I'll wake my wife up at 2:00-3:00am when I log on to
WABC's stream.......

 

[Hunter]

Oh, well...I wonder if I'll wake my wife up at 2:00-3:00am when I log on to
WABC's stream.......

There's software that you can buy cheaply like Fogware's Internet Radio Recorder that I believe you can set to "Tivo" his show to your hard drive and time shift your listening to a more convenient time - and get more sleep. I use the software to record from the internet and it works great, but I've never tried the scheduling feature. Good luck.

 

[BTSF]

Hunter,

Thanks for the recording tip.....I guess I'm really old school, but I really like to hear live radio live whenever possible, even though I know very few stations run East Coast drivetime on the West Coast {I guess Bill Bennett on KTKZ is about it}.

That's why I'd tape "Imus In The Morning" off MSNBC, but ended up watching it live more often than not.
{I tried to watch MSNBC's "Morning Joe", the Imus replacement, but my stomach simply isn't that strong
that early in the morning....as weak a talk show as possible, which fits in perfectly with MSNBC's woefully weak overall programming}.

I fully expect to:

1-listen to the live stream if available,
2-disturb my charming bride
3-catch holy hell for it.

 

[Madmansam]

Question is? Are any of Citadel's other radio stations (not the acquired ABC stations) going to air Imus? Looking at Citadel's Modesto/Stockton Stations lineups, I doubt it. Oh, Oh! I hope Hammerin' Hank doesn't come up with the idea that DON IMUS will replace BOB AND TOM at THE HAWK? ;D

 

[jvparent]

Christine might be on to something -- KSAC seems to be about the only Sactown station that might consider picking up a syndicated Imus product. It appears that everyone else has a decent morning show, or has a programming agenda that Imus' show might not fit.

 

[BTSF]

KSAC makes the most sense, but would Imus fit on a station dedicated to liberal talk?

Frankly, it's almost impossible to classify Don Imus....he's an ex-druggie "cowboy" who called Dick Cheney "a war criminal" almost daily for four years. Imus was calling the Iraq War a completely idiotic mess and totally unnecessary within days of our invasion. He also jumped full force into the Walter Reed story about substandard care for returning wounded warriors, and helped raise private monies for better, new facilities in Texas.

He's a "racist" who supported Harold Ford Jr. for U.S. Senate and openly questioned how sad it was that race played a decisive factor in Ford's defeat in Tennessee in the year 2006...Imus also viciously attacked the Republican National Committee for the infamous "Harold...Call me" ad for its clear racist implications against Ford.....He frequently lambasted Newsweek reporters for being too..uh..."liberal" with the truth and stated flat out they had an anti-Bush agenda. Imus, within a couple of days of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, called out the Bush Administration, saying he felt that, because the vast majority of the most sorely affected victims were black, the Bush Administration and FEMA felt they could screw around and dicker about what to do...and that race WAS a major factor {Imus' sidekick, Charles McCord disagreed but Imus remained firm in this conviction}.

At the same time, Don Imus has called Hillary Clinton a total phony and disingenuous hundreds of times and had returned to that theme heavily just before the Rutgers fiasco, nicknaming Hillary "Satan". Imus'
opinion of Al Gore: "The most evil man on this planet." One of his last interviews was a blistering 15 minutes with Chuck Schumer of New York, where Imus said it's not enough to blame the GOP for the Iraq War and everything else that goes wrong on the planet and that liberal Democrats need to stand up and take some blame, too, for the nation's problems.

One look at his regular guest list and you find the complete spectrum: James Carville & Paul Begala, Mary Matalin,
Tim Russert, David Gregory, Terry Bradshaw {hysterically funny visits}, Mike Barnicle, Brian Williams, presidential historians Doris Kerns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, and Douglas Brinkley. Politicians frequently wet their beaks...and got scorched, too: John Kerry, Pete Dominici, Rick Santorum, Bob Kerrey, Rudy Guilliani, Bill Richardson, John McCain...all showed up {hell, even Dick Cheney & his wife appeared on Inauguration Day, 2005!}.

Imus' cast of impersonators {Larry Kenney & Rob Bartlett} parodied Rush Limbaugh & Jerry Falwell, Alberto Gonzales & Dr. Phil, with savage accuracy...God, I miss them.

Frankly, a voice that blasts pretension, idiocy and political perversity on BOTH sides of the isle sounds like something one hell of a lot more "in the public interest" than another Morning Zoo....