Mike and Mad Dog resign in protest?

They are on from 2-6:30 for the two week period, with the 10-1 guys picking up an extra hour.

 

They are doing double duty - both their own and Imus time slot.

They alluded to outside chance of Imus return once smoke clears.

CBS owes Imus 50 million so its not an impossible idea.

 

In the end starting this battle may cost them more when they start having to drop programing from MTV / Comedy Channel/ BET Network.

 

Boom: GM is gone as a sponsor, Proctor & Gamble is gone as a sponsor, Imus is gone as a host. Such is the radio business.

 

True but part of that was on premis that it was National program simucast on MSNBC.
At best it will go back to being a NYC area program with whoever ends up in time slot.

As ny program I still think that Imus would generate more revenue than anyone else they would bring in.

 

The title of this thread is a bigger tease than the champagne room at a strip club...or Rich Harden...

 

Imus generally didn't do well on other stations outside New York. And the fact that the big names won't come on would hurt him in New York.

Since FAN is an all-sports station they could put a sports show in the morning. When they started the station in the 80s, the feeling was that sports talk couldn't do well in the morning. But now that FAN is established, I'm not sure that is the case.

 

Yeah but they need someone who will give them the money demographic of Imus.
That will be hard to find. Finding someone at 10- 1 slot has proved impossible.

 

The Imus Preservation Society meets every Thursday in a phone booth near Boom's place.
Yeah, those two were going to quit on principle.

 

What principles?

Doggy's right to be a spoiled brat, or Mikeeeee's right to pontificate?

 

As a four decade listener....please realize that Imus is the Lazerous of NY radio. He COULD be back very soon. And on WFAN.

Napoleanic banished to 1970's Cleveland !?!?!? he survived stint on the mistake by the lake.
He returned to NY.

Coked and Vodka'd out his mind in the 80's?
He returned from rehab stronger than ever and did his best soberwork.
(and by the way, the coke period, his acme, great comedy stuff).

Getting stale with the humor, irrelevant, sobriety anniversaries?
Goes Uptown, upscale in mid 90's.

Getting older, stupid attempt at humor at expense of girl's hoop team?

a guy getting old, not in touch, out of mainstream, BUT NOT A BIGOT. Heck, 10/20 years ago it was too hard to find the girl's championship game on any media to make humor of it. Now it's not irrelevant. He showed his age. Big comedic misstep. whatever.

He comes back, a lot more aware, won't be as sloppy, I hope he's a little more sharp with the humor, as he once was. The show is sloppy now - Cardinal Egan, Bartlett doing bad bad daily characters, etc...just real bad broad humor with no edge.

It's like in the Simpsons, when the Krustova loses his edge and dies on stage. Bottoms out. I guess the bottom for Krusty was Jay Leno giving him comedy tips. I hope the bottom for Imus was his stupid sloppy humor about a college hoops team. His greatest crime is that, as a comedian, he has been lazy for about ten years.

He didn't work at his craft. He let Bernard McG's and Sid Rosenbergs (oouuuggg) take over much of the sewer stuff. Fine. And then the Rutgers thing. If you strip it of any racist themes, it really just comes across as not funny. Like the dying days of some Celebrity Roasts videos.

And that's my winded pointed, it wasn't racism, it was just real bad comedy.