It was Albuquerque where he has his ranch, not Texas. He was there during the summer months while his associates stayed in New York City. He's just retired from his radio show.
Joe Scarborough, a fawning regular on Imus in the Morning, helped to oust Imus from MSNBC when the woman's basketball “scandal” broke out. He took over. Later, Imus on WABC said that Scarborough's brief time as a radio host on WABC was caused by the many complaints by Joe's staffers to Human Resources. He did not elaborate.
>> He was on MSNBC, not Fox. <<
Imus was booted from MSNBC right after the “nappy hoes” comment.
Then he was off of TV for a while until a tiny network aimed at farmers and ranchers — called “RFD-TV” — picked him up. I was delighted when I found that channel on satellite and watched for many mornings.
After Imus spent a year or so on RFD, Roger Ailes put him on Fox Business Channel, where he stayed until two or three years ago. I used to watch that show also, although I thought it was less interesting than the previous iterations due to too stock-market reporting.
But when Imus decided to move to Texas, FBC replaced him with Maria “Money Honey” Bartiromo. The story was that his new location in Texas didn’t have a studio, and neither Imus nor FBC wanted to pay for setting one up.
All the above is about the TV show. The radio show continued unabated on WABC 770 and on an Internet stream from the new Texas location, until Imus’s retirement a few months ago.
>> Was he supposed to go with Fox Business? <<
No “supposed” about it. He was there for maybe four or five years.
>> It was Albuquerque where he has his ranch, not Texas <<
That was the ranch for kids with cancer. It eventually closed and was put up for sale. Fetched much less than the original asking price.
Anyway, Imus finally relocated to Texas. You can look it up.