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Don’t touch that dial Prodigal FM yakker Jay Severin will return to 96.9 FM beginning Jan. 3, and will broadcast his new, nationally syndicated show in the 7 to 10 p.m. slot. Severin, the former afternoon drive host, was yanked off the air several months ago after he signed a national syndication deal with Infinity Broadcasting. But yesterday, Severin’s agent, George Tobia, told the Track he had reached an agreement for Severin to broadcast his show on WTKK for at least a year. “We’re really excited to be back,” he said. When Severin returns to the station, he’ll bump Laura...

Radio host axed for Islam slam lands a Hub gig By Jay Fitzgerald Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - Updated: 11:41 AM EST A Virginia talk-show host who was fired from his last full-time radio gig for calling Islam a “terrorist organization” was tapped yesterday to replace bad-boy Jay Severin as host of WTKK (96.9-FM)’s coveted afternoon drive-time show. Michael Graham, who was canned this summer by WMAL in Washington, D.C. for repeatedly making the anti-Muslim remarks and refusing to apologize for them, said yesterday he believes his controversial comments reflected reality – and still do in the wake of recent...

He's called Bill Clinton ''a traitor" and Al Gore ''Al Whore," but until now, Jay Severin's radio audience has been largely limited to Boston. That will change in January. Today Infinity Broadcasting will announce that it has signed the sharp-tongued former political consultant to do a radio show in a series of syndicated markets beginning next year.

NO FIGURE, not even that towering statesman Pat Buchanan, looms larger in Jay Severin's pantheon of heroes than the WTKK talkmeister himself. And so on Friday, Severin was awash in a double dose of self-delight, holding forth not just about the preternatural political insight he believes himself to possess but about his appearance as well. Noting that he was dressed in a tuxedo, Jay informed his listeners that a tux was really semi-formal wear and that tails once marked a true gentleman's formal attire. But that, he lamented, was back before society's standards -- indeed, etiquette itself -- had been...

Old-time comic book hero Rawhide Kid always dressed much better than the other cowboys and never had a girlfriend.