Imus Accepts Pay Cut and 21-Sec Delay to Return to Radio

Authored by Scott Goldberg on November 14, 2007 - 5:42am.

The nation’s #1 talk radio station, WABC in New York City, will host the resurrection of Don Imus’s Imus in the Morning when it airs on December 3rd, we reported last month. Said an unnamed source at the time, "We'll have him on a standard 40-second delay. Don is rested, humbled, and ready for war!" Turns out the delay will only be half that – 21 seconds, according to The New York Observer.

Imus was fired from CBS in April after referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as group of “nappy-headed ho’s.” Watch the video here.

A source said last month that Imus’s deal would be for 8-figures over several years, signed with WABC’s parent company, Citadel Broadcasting. The Observer says he will earn somewhere between $5 and $8 million, a drop from his $10 million at CBS.

Imus’s first guest, according to The Observer, will be James Carville.

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