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A replacement for Don Imus may soon be been named by WFAN, the radio station that was Imus’s flagship.
The station is close to naming former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason to the morning time slot, writes the Associated Press (via Yahoo). Esiason is currently a football analyst for CBS Sports. He is likely to be paired with Craig Carton, currently co-host of a Trenton, N.J. radio program known as The Jersey Guys.
MSNBC, which simulcast Imus’s morning show before Imus was fired in April for making racially charged and sexist comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, is also close to naming an Imus replacement. Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who was also a nighttime personality for MSNBC, has been trying a Morning Joe program on for size at MSNBC for the past few months.
People close to the negotiations say that MSNBC and WFAN will be going separate ways. WFAN tried out Scarborough’s program earlier this summer, but has not aired it recently.
Some reports suggest that Imus may be returning to radio in September.
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