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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 24, 2018 18:27:13 GMT -5
Legendary air personality Don Imus will formally retire on March 29th-He was an air personality for the past fifty years-He started his career in Palmdale,California in 1968-After a stint in Cleveland,Ohio,Imus came to New York's WNBC in December 1971-His daily show "Imus In The Morning" was appointment listening for hundreds of listeners-His show was heavy on satire-He introduced several memorable characters such as Crazy Bob who told fractured fairy tales,Geraldo Santana Banana,who was voiced by Larry Chance-Well known voice actor Larry Kenny was also part of the team-Charles Mc Cord served as the head writer of the show & the voice of reason-In 1977,Imus was fired from WNBC only to be rehired two years later-In 1988,WNBC went out of business & became an all sports station called WFAN-Imus was hired as the morning drive personality-Disparaging comments about the female basketball team at Rutgers University cost him his gig at WFAN in 2007-He subsequently ended up at New York's WABC-Imus is a legendary broadcaster who will be truly missed by his legions of fans.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 25, 2018 12:07:01 GMT -5
Early in his career,Imus called a Mc Donald's restaurant & ordered 1200 hamburgers to go-I believe that's been posted to You Tube.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 18:57:02 GMT -5
He was still on the air?
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Post by Dale Latimer on Jan 29, 2018 10:32:27 GMT -5
^Barely... there have been extended absences due to his health in recent years... meanwhile he remained at his current home in Texas -- after selling a home outside of, and a penthouse in, NY, and while still trying to unload his former charitable ranch in New Mexico -- while the rest of the crew carried on in NY.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 31, 2018 6:24:15 GMT -5
^Barely... there have been extended absences due to his health in recent years... Sounds reminiscent of Casey Kasem from 2009 in his final months of hosting AT20 and AT10. There were rarely guest hosts during his first years as host of AT20 and AT10, until 2009 when there was an abrupt increase in guest hosts because of Casey's health issues. |
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Post by BrettVW on Jan 31, 2018 8:18:24 GMT -5
^ Yes and no...
Casey started the once a month weeks off with a guest host early on in the Westwood One years. Outside of the April-July old school spring ratings book, Casey's pattern was typically 3 or 4 weeks on, 1 week off. This continued with AMFM and then Premiere until 2004, when Casey went from three shows to two. The guest hosted shows went from one a month to just one or two a year until 2008 when Mike Kasem began to host more frequently. Even in Casey's final months on the air, the absences were still fewer than the 1990-2003 time period.
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Post by mrjukebox on Feb 17, 2018 19:03:58 GMT -5
Rumor has it that Howard Stern will interview Imus on his Sirius/XM show-However,nothing has been confirmed at this time.
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