Please, Mr. Steinbrenner, say YES to IMUS!

"Separately, Mr. Imus is seeking a television channel to simulcast his radio program, as MSNBC did. Among those networks considered possibilities, the three people said,

• are Fox News, YES (the Yankees’ cable channel) and SportsNet New York (which broadcasts the Mets.)

Reached on Thursday, Martin Garbus, the lawyer who represented Mr. Imus in a settlement he reached with CBS Radio in August, said he had no comment.

• Should Citadel and Mr. Imus reach a formal agreement, it would represent a reunion of sorts for Mr. (Farid) Suleman and Mr. Imus. Mr. Suleman was previously the chief executive of Infinity Radio, which owned WFAN, the flagship for the Imus program, before Infinity merged with CBS radio.

Mr. Imus is also expected to reunite, on the air, with Charles McCord, the newsman who has served as his sidekick for three decades. Still to be resolved is whether Mr. Imus’s program would include Bernard McGuirk, his long-time producer and another on-air foil."

• From NY Times article by Jacques Steinberg, "Executive Says Imus Deserves Another Chance," 10/6/07

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