No more Curtis and Kuby?
What's this about Ron Kuby getting pushed out of WABC for Don Imus?
Damn.
Before relocating to California, I was a semi-regular Curtis & Kuby listener. The show was kind of a morning drive-time Hannity & Colmes, except the liberal guy, Ron Kuby, wasn't an ineffectual idiot.
I thought it was great radio. Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby were perfect foils for each other, and the show had all the, erm... liveliness of talk radio... while also challenging listeners' points of view. (And despite the fact that WABC's mostly conservative audience wanted Kuby dead at first, he quickly won their respect.)
AP sez the show "garnered a bigger Big Apple audience than the one Imus left behind after his April firing at WFAN-AM," but apparently Imus has "the buzz" for national syndication.
Do New Yorkers out there know if there's any chance that Curtis & Kuby will take their act to another station? Or will they just go their separate ways? I imagine Kuby could get a gig elsewhere if he wanted to, and Sliwa stays on at WABC. But the genius of the show was really in the combo.




