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"Since the dark days of April, Don Imus has accomplished the beginnings of a media resurrection. Last month, he signed a 5-year deal with Citadel Broadcasting, through which he'll return to the radio on December 3rd, as the host of a morning drive time show on the company's WABC, the top-ranked AM radio station in New York City....
Still, his freedom will be curtailed: CBS kept him on only a five-second tape delay, which it rarely used, according to Martin Garbus, Imus' lawyer. But a wary WABC said they'll have him on a 21-second delay, giving them ample time to bleep out anything troublesome, reports Observer writer Felix Gillette.
Crucially, many of Imus' big-name guests from the worlds of politics and media appear ready to welcome him back with open arms, unconcerned about the inevitable charges that by returning to the scene of the crime, they're accessories to buddy-buddy bigotry....
Imus' reach will be diminished, at least to start off. At the end of his tenure at CBS, his show was syndicated on about 60 stations around the country, giving him over 2.5 million listeners a week, according to an estimate by Michael Harrison, a talk-radio expert and the publisher of Talkers magazine. But WABC execs say they have syndication deals in the works....
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