Howard Stern Fired…and Hired
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The decision by WCKG general manager Mike Disney to take Stern off the air, after less than seven months in the classic-rock station’s morning-drive slot, was unexpected. Just two months ago Stern was in hot water for some tough words against Wert. “I hope you’re in a men’s room in a gas station,” said Stern in part, “and some guy comes in, a very effeminate guy, but powerful, pushes you over the sink, pulls your pants down, gives you the hot beef injection, and delivers the deadly AIDS into your system.” Stern wished that Wert would then bleed into his kids’ food. But Disney stood by him, even intemperately defending the broadside in a long letter to local advertisers. Now he concedes that the show’s “on-air content” made him pull the plug, but won’t comment further, apparently as part of an “amicable” agreement to split with Stern.
