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Article: Imus returning Monday: ; Insiders wonder if shock jock will school himself

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NEW YORK - Will Don Imus be defiant or contrite? Will he mock his skeptics while making his triumphant return to radio Monday.

Or will he muzzle his mouth?

"That question is part of the drama of his re-emergence," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, an industry trade journal. "Imus faces some choices."

Imus isn't talking, yet, but it's safe to say radio's best-known curmudgeon will have lots to say when his show kicks off at 6 a.m. Monday on WABC-AM and other Citadel Broadcasting Corp. stations around the country, ending his nearly eight-month banishment from the air.

The morning show will be simulcast on cable's RFD-TV, owned by the Rural Media Group Inc., and rebroadcast ...

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