Biography
Don Imus distinguished himself among morning radio shock jocks through his connections to Washington insiders and politicians, until an on-air remark terminated his extended program. Born and raised in California, he launched his broadcasting career on the West Coast in 1968, moving among multiple stations before reaching Cleveland's WGAR and then joining WNBC in New York City during 1971. While at WNBC he issued two RCA albums, 1200 Hamburgers to Go and One Sacred Chicken to Go, plus the Bang label release This Honky's Nuts. Alcohol and cocaine abuse contributed to his firing from WNBC in 1977. After spending two years back at Cleveland's WHK, he rejoined WNBC, where he met Howard Stern and launched their noted rivalry. Across later years Imus produced novels, placed his show into national syndication, created the charitable Imus Ranch for children with cancer, shifted from WNBC to WFAN, and started a simulcast on the MSNBC cable network. In 2007 he generated headlines by describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team in a remark judged racist. He voiced regret for the "idiot comment meant to be amusing" and held a meeting with the Rutgers team, yet lost first the MSNBC simulcast and then the radio program itself.
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