[BC] Re: Imus Firing

[Gary Glaenzer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Kline" <akline at netins.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: Imus Firing


> One thing that hasn't been discussed, at least publicly, is how much 
> pressure might have been brought to bear on CBS by the NCAA. Remember 
> that Imus made his comments about a team which played in the NCAA 
> womens' basketball championship, and remember that the NCAA is one of 
> CBS' most cherished business partners. CBS paid something like $6 
> billion for the rights to the Final Four for the next umpteen years. Do 
> you think they're going to do *anything* to alienate the NCAA?
> 

h*ll no they won't

look at the University of Illinois

G