i don’t get where you people are coming from
Chris didn’t have ratings for ad revenue? That could be a possibility considering he was never in Talkers Top 100 but he did have a lot of callers from outside the local area, since he had grown in popularity by being Mark Levin’s sub for a short while. Most likely, he was cut because Citadel is really cash-strapped and since they already have the license to Joe and Mika likely scrapped him to cut costs of paying a local host and his staff while still keeping only one local host — Grandy and Andy.
Second of all — his morning demure was completely different than at night? Sure there was a difference but his personality was still clearly there in the morning.
I beg to differ. I listened to Chris in the evenings from July 2006 to Feb. 2008, and then when he took over Core’s morning slot. The difference in style, analysis and what he “could get away with” was clearly there. At one point in Aug./Sept. ‘08, I stopped listening altogether because he was focusing too much time & energy on one topic (Wall Street/Economy), instaed of the upcoming Presidential Election, Radical Islam, the War on Terror, Illegal Immigration, etc. I think that in the last few months, his “evening personality” was slowing creeping up in the mornings. The morning listening audience too was way different that the evening one.
I continued listening to him until the end, and there’s no better talk show host... he was clearly born to do radio...