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NEWS ABOUT: Don Imus

Don Imus stories: 33 news summaries

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 Imus Psyched to Join Fox 

He cracks at Fox, 'we’re better people' with 'a much closer relationship with our Lord'

Oct 5, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus is returning to TV today, and it doesn’t bother him at all that it’s on Fox Business Network. “The perception is that even their news is skewed toward opinion—not when I watch it. It's a fair news organization,” he tells Howard Kurtz of... More »

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Don Imus • talk radio • Fox Business Network • Fox News

 Imus Joins Fox Business 

Fox deal returns host to cable news after 2007 race controversy

Sep 3, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus has completed a deal to simulcast his radio show on Fox Business Network TV beginning Oct. 5, Mediabistro reports. Imus has gotten out of his simulcast deal with RFD-TV. On FBN, he'll add more business news, and Fox Business Morning hosts Jenna Lee, Connell McShane, and Ashley Webster... More »

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radio • Don Imus • Fox Business Network • Imus in the Morning • host • cable news • business news

(Newser) - Don Imus is negotiating with Fox Business to broadcast a video simulcast of his morning talk show, the Los Angeles Times reports. Imus had a simulcast deal with MSNBC when his radio show was on CBS, before he referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed... More »

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entertainment • television • CBS • Don Imus • Rutgers • MSNBC • shock jocks • Fox Business Network • radio stations • Rutgers University • WABC • RFD-TV • talk-show host • simulcast

 Don Imus Diagnosed 
 With Prostate Cancer 

Radio host tells audience of diagnosis

Mar 16, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shock-jock Don Imus, best known for stirring near-universal ire with his "nappy-headed hos" comment, announced on-air this morning that he has stage 2 prostate cancer, WCBS-TV in New York reports. Imus, 68, voiced confidence that "his doctors will beat it," Fox News reports, and speculated that the... More »

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cancer • radio • CBS • prostate cancer • Don Imus • ABC • Rutgers University • broadcasting

 Why Liberals Like Joe
 Scarborough 

Conservative pundit takes relaxed, questioning attitude on new morning show

Jul 14, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican congressman who gained office in the 1994 House sweep that launched Newt Gingrich. His MSNBC show Scarborough Country was initially devised as a like-minded answer to Bill O’Reilly. But, as Mark Binelli puts it in New York magazine, "Scarborough never quite... More »

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Don Imus • MSNBC • talk show • pundits • Election 2008 • Joe Scarborough • interview • television personality

I Was Being Sarcastic,
Not Racist: Imus

Latest comment was misunderstood, shock jock says

Jun 24, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus was just making a “sarcastic point” when he asked “what color” oft-arrested cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones is, he said on his show today.  When informed that Jones was black, Imus replied, “There you go. Now we know.” The rejoinder sparked  complaints against... More »

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race • Don Imus • shock jocks • Imus in the Morning • Adam "Pacman" Jones


 Imus Reinserts 
 Foot in Mouth 

Shock jock steps in it again with Pacman comment

Jun 23, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus may have stepped in it again, Politico reports. While bantering on this morning's show about Adam "Pacman" Jones, who’s been arrested six times in his NFL career, the scandal-shadowed shock jock asked, “What color is he?” A sidekick dutifully informed him that Jones is African-American.... More »

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Don Imus • race relations • gaffe • Imus in the Morning • Adam "Pacman" Jones

Forget Video: Radio Killed the Radio Star

Industry scrambles
to keep listeners in post-Howard Stern era

May 3, 08 5:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Howard Stern gone and Don Imus chastened, today's commercial radio is fighting to be heard, the Wall Street Journal reports. What's more, consolidation is depriving stations of a local touch and squelching chances for would-be stars. Plus there aren’t as many “heirs apparent,” said one... More »

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radio • Sirius • CBS • Don Imus • talk radio • Howard Stern

 Wright 'Would Not Have 
 Been My Pastor': Clinton 

She'd have left church over racial remarks by Obama's ex-preacher

Mar 25, 08 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a week’s silence, Hillary Clinton spoke today on the Jeremiah Wright flap, saying the ex-minister at Barack Obama's church “would not have been my pastor,” the Washington Post reports. She said “getting up and moving” would have been the right choice for Obama. “You... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Don Imus • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary • Election 2008

Imus Bounces Back After Scandal

Advertisers and former guests happy to be part of Big Mouth redux

Feb 3, 08 6:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The once-axed radio host Don Imus has re-emerged on the airwaves largely unscathed by his racially and sexually disparaging remarks about Rutgers' female hoop stars, the New York Times reports. Both advertisers and call-in guests—including John Kerry, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mike Huckabee—have nearly... More »

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Comcast • Don Imus • RFD-TV • Imus in the Morning

Sharpton Insists He Still Has
a Role to Play

Civil rights leader not threatened by new wave of black politicians

Dec 26, 07 2:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Is there a place for Al Sharpton in a Barack Obama world? The first black politician with a serious shot at the Oval Office hardly mentions race, whereas Sharpton is, as one historian puts it, “kind of a racial ambulance chaser.” But Sharpton isn’t worried. “They... More »

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Barack Obama • Don Imus • Al Sharpton • race relations • civil rights • Jena Six • Election 2008

Muslims See Hypocrisy on Hate Speech

Radio host's slur
seen as evidence of
US double standard

Dec 4, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - After radio host Michael Savage took potshots at Islam, the relatively muted response has left Muslim Americans with a question: Where's the outrage? A handful of advertisers have pulled out, but the reaction is nowhere near as strong as it was, say, when Don Imus made an anti-black slur, the... More »

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Don Imus • Muslim Americans • Isaiah Washington • James Watson • American Muslims • Michael Savage • hate speech

Contrite Imus Returns to Air

Other than 2 black cohorts and a new policy on race, 'not much has changed'

Dec 3, 07 8:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Don Imus was broadcasting again this morning, eight months after being fired for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team you-know-whats. His new cast sports two black comedians, and while Imus promised not to joke about racism, other than that “not much has changed,” he said. “Dick... More »

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Don Imus • Rutgers

Stern Extols
the Pleasures
of Satellite

Funny man finds the troubles at CBS Radio the best joke of all

Nov 24, 07 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - It's been almost two years since Howard Stern switched to satellite radio, and the never-modest shock jock is reveling in his success on Sirius—and the woes of his former network, CBS, and rival, Don Imus, back in terrestrial radio. In a sit-down with the AP, Stern crows that his... More »

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radio • satellite radio • Sirius • Don Imus • shock jocks • Howard Stern

Imus Will Return to Airwaves

Shock jock reinstated six months after 'nappy-headed hos' comment

Nov 1, 07 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus, the radio host taken off the air in April after referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos," will be back on the air Dec. 3 on a New York radio station. The New York Post reports Imus has signed a five-year deal that... More »

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Don Imus • Rutgers University • WABC

Is National Discourse Too Darn Crass?

Imus and Coulter highlight need for action, critics say

Oct 21, 07 6:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shock jock Don Imus is coming back, but humbled; Ann Coulter got press for anti-Semitism, but lost support; could this be a backlash against crass punditry? Hardly, say the experts, but some see rays of hope. "We're caught right now between extreme political correctness on one end and crude,... More »

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Ann Coulter • Don Imus • New Yorker magazine • Fox News • debate

The I-Man Cometh

He's baaaaack—new deal could have Don Imus back on the airwaves by December

Oct 6, 07 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus is on the comeback trail. Six months after a racially insensitive quip got him fired, Imus is close to a deal that would give him a nationally syndicated radio show on major New York station WABC, the Washington Post reports. Barring a last-minute snag, Citadel Broadcasting, owner of... More »

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Don Imus • Fox Business Network • WABC • Citadel Broadcasting

Rutgers Player Sues Imus
Over Insults

Fired radio host hit with libel, slander, defamation charges

Aug 15, 07 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the Rutgers basketball players radio host Don Imus referred to as "nappy-headed hos" is suing the shock jock for libel, slander, defamation, and violation of her civil rights, among other charges. Kia Vaughn, 20, the Scarlet Knights' star center, is seeking unspecified monetary damages from the 67-year-old... More »

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radio • CBS • Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Don Imus • libel • lawsuit • Rutgers University • defamation • slander • Kia Vaughn

Imus Gets
$20M, Maybe a Comeback

DJ settles with
network after getting hose for 'hos'

Aug 14, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shock Jock Don Imus may be returning to the airwaves, after a short vacation precipitated by a bit too much shock. Imus is reportedly in talks with WABC in what looks like a an embryonic attempt to launch a comeback, only four months after CBS fired him for calling the... More »

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radio • CBS • Don Imus • Al Sharpton • Rutgers • WABC

Boston Show Tries Out Imus Sidekick

Bernard McGuirk set off scandal; auditions to be Tom Finneran's co-host

May 18, 07 8:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus's old sidekick Bernard McGuirk will audition live next week to be the co-host of "Finneran's Forum," a morning political talk show on Boston's WRKO. McGuirk set off last month's controversy by calling the Rutgers womens' basketball team "hard-core hos." But his potential future co-host,... More »

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radio • CBS • Boston • Don Imus • talk radio • Bernard McGuirk • Tom Finneran

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