Imus canned by MSNBC

[David Tomm]

The interesting sidebar to this story is that WSBG's AM sister station 
across the hall runs Imus, and as of last check the I-man hasn't been 
dropped from that station.  Smith had been doing mornings on WSBG for 
17 years prior to his dismissal.  If the AM station continues to run 
Imus, maybe there were other reasons behind Smith's firing.   Maybe he 
was challenging station management to drop Imus from the AM by doing 
what he did and it backfired.  There's got to be more to this story.

-Dave Tomm
"Mike Thomas"

On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Roger Kirk wrote:

> Even more damage to a (not-too-bright?) copier of Imus' ill-advised 
> choice of words:
>
> According to R&R,  Classic Hits WSBG/Stroudsburg, Pa., (Nassau 
> Broadcasting ) morning man Gary Smith was fired for using the words 
> "I'm a nappy-headed ho" as the "phrase that pays" on the "Gary in the 
> Morning" show" yesterday.