Posted on 07/27/2022 8:11:50 AM PDT by conservative98
Talk Media Networks has cut ties with host Ken Matthews after comments he thought were being made to his engineer went out live on the air.
On an apology broadcast and shared online, Matthews said that on his July 12th show, when he was told he was in a break his mic fed to the network and he made some vulgar comments reading Hunter Biden’s emails that he thought were being told only to his engineer unaware they went out over the air. Talk Media Network immediately cut ties with Matthews, but will continue to feed best-of programs to affiliates until August 12.
Matthews entered syndication last December as one of the many 12-3pm eastern shows attempting to gain some of Rush Limbaugh audience. He was previously an occasional fill-in host for Limbaugh and hosts afternoons at iHeartMedia’s 580 WHP Harrisburg PA. Matthews pivoted to talk in 2009 as a fill-in at WKXW Trenton before joining WHP as afternoon host in 2013. He was best known for his 15 year run in mornings at CHR “B104” WAEB-FM Allentown PA from 1991-2006 and has also worked at stations in Portland ME, Cincinnati, and Charleston SC in his career.
In a tweet explaining his exit, Matthews stated he will continue to provide content to right-wing social media platforms Gab, Rumble and TruthSocial.
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I volunteer to take his place.
I will be subbing the Alan Keyes show next MONDAY from 1-3 EST.
Same. Can’t say I was always that way, unfortunately.
He was (IS!) my choice as a Rush time slot replacement.
Sounds like an orchestrated “setup” to stab him in the back...
Kind of along the same vein from The Streets Of SF - Dead Air.
One of my favorite episodes.
Don’t tick off the engineer.
https://youtu.be/gRb7V_EPTnY?t=2578
Not a fan, but why not just pay the fine and carry on?
I’ll take Redd Foxx over the seriously, almost scrupulously unfunny Jack Benny anytime. Being conservative doesn’t mean having a stick up your @ss.
Never heard of this person...Ken Matthews.
You think Jack Benny is not funny?
You’re serious?
He had a talk radio program in PA for years. I guess he was syndicated. I stopped listening to talk radio after Rush left us. Matthews was decent. Better than Hannity in my estimation, but no Rush. He used to fill in for Rush though…he was decent enough to do that.
I’m probably a little young for his demo. I don’t mind one way or another about profanity in humor, I just like what I like. Foxworthy is great, Bill Cosby’s old records are classics, Pryor is my favorite. Just gotta be funny.
Benny’s timing and dead pan look when doing his humor is classic! He ‘schools’ all the others! He can’t be duplicated.
Speaking of his timing he is quoted as saying “Better never than late”
I wonder if Ken was set.up...
The biggest rule of radio: THE MIKE IS ALWAYS HOT.
I'm f****g vulgar, and you remember ME from your youth.
I'm the one that kept beating you up in the school playground.
FLINCH, ya coward.
Rules for entertainers: always assume you mic is live, behave as if it is.
Never say anything in the same room as a broadcast mic that you would not want heard by millions who want to bring you down.
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