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Article: ABC Fires Radio Host Matt Drudge
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 13, 2000
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When ABC hired cyber-gossip Matt Drudge to host a syndicated radio
show last year, some top executives--led by ABC News President David
Westin--tried their best to block the move.
Now the suits have gotten the last laugh. Although Drudge's
program has been picked up in 135 markets, including nine of the top
10, ABC has just fired him.
What makes the timing especially odd is that ABC radio executives
had been courting Drudge to move from Sunday nights to five days a
week--until corporate higher-ups overruled them.
"I see it as punishment for daring to report on ABC's activities,"
Drudge says. "The whole notion that this is a political payback for
my Web reporting is an explosive accusation, ...