Bob Grant being the primary offender?
Well, it was just maybe four months before I got here that our afternoon host was on the cover of New York magazine, wrapped in a red WABC banner with a big headline that was embarrassing to the station. We had to do something, but I was here about a year before we made the decision to blow it up. It was the most difficult and stressful thing I have ever encountered, yet perhaps the biggest challenge and biggest potential success of my career. And I remember thinking, If I can rebuild this Radio station, Im in hero country. So you cleaned house a little. Yes. We fired Bob Grant and a night host who was similar to him at that time. I have to say, Bob is a great Talk show host, and he worked very well with me for that year. I had to teach Bob how to tone it down; and in Bobs defense, I dont think anyone had ever done that with him. He had been encouraged to do some things that eventually came back to haunt him. The die was cast, and one little slip-up was going to result in his being fir
