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Article: Matt Drudge Cuts Radio Deal With ABC; Controversial Columnist's Show to Air Here
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- The Washington Post
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- July 8, 1999
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Matt Drudge is coming to Washington--and plenty of other cities--
over the heated objections of ABC News President David Westin.
ABC Radio said yesterday that it has signed the Internet gossip
columnist to a syndication deal that will put him on the network-
owned stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Detroit, Atlanta and Washington, where Drudge will be heard on WMAL-
AM. Drudge, whose Sunday night show is already carried on New York's
WABC, is getting a bigger major-market rollout than Rush Limbaugh.
According to network sources, Westin vociferously argued that
Drudge should not be part of ABC's corporate family. In meetings
with Pat Fili-Krushel, the president of ABC ...