This whole Imus/Shock Radio thing, PS

[Donna Halper]

At 07:10 PM 4/15/2007, Richard Chonak wrote: "The materials I'm 
finding on the net about the Canadian-born priest vary in details; 
one version, citing Coughlin's magazine, says he was already off the 
air in 1939..."  [snip]

CBS did in fact succumb to endless protests and drop him circa 1936, 
but he simply turned around and assembled his own network of 
stations, which at its height, had as many as 36 affiliates.  But as 
time passed and he became more and more stridently anti-Semitic and 
more and more vocal about his other hatreds (and there were many), 
affiliates began to drop off.  He absolutely was still on the air in 
1939, but nowhere nearly as many stations carried him.  By late 
1941/early 1942, even those few die-hards were gone and so was he.