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He wasn’t nearly as outspoken as Michael Graham was about it, but occasionally he went out on that same limb. I remember once writing him an e-mail asking if he was worried about what happened to Graham. I don’t think he responded.

But probably he said nothing that would actually get them to work to get him fired — and if they HAD anything to do with it, they would have bragged about it, so that was probably not the reason.

And probably nothing he said was the reason — they just are looking to make more money. My guess is they are going to try to make Chris Plante into another national talk show, owned by citidel, because that’s where the big money is in radio — paying a guy once and having him talk on 100 of your stations. They can pay him 10 times his salary and still come out 10 times ahead.

I don’t think Chris Core would have gone well nationally, nor am I sure he would have wanted to — he liked talking local.

My hope is that some station that is just below top tier will see this as an opportunity to make it big by picking Core up for a local talk show. WBAL has done OK so far by taking that route, running a lot of local shows for Baltimore.

It would be a shame to lose that local talk-show voice — Chris was an excellent source of information about what was happening here in Northern Virginia, issues that the national guys have little interest in, but that we talk about here on FR a lot (like the kid getting suspended for calling the administrator at home to complain about school closings).