History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / Radio

* Denver-area conservation talk radio station KNUS-AM fired two of their hosts for controversies within weeks of each other in 2019.

** Then, on August 22, 2002, they were fired from WNEW, along with the station's general manager and program director, while their nationally syndicated show was pulled from the air when the FCC fined Infinity Broadcasting $27,500 for every station that aired the show (for a total of $357,500). The cause of this was their third annual "Sex For Sam" contest (so named because it was sponsored by the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams beer) in which contestants had sex in public places for prizes. One couple decided to have sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral during Mass, and were arrested. The show was off the air for two years after that, as they were still under contract with Infinity, who didn't want them jumping ship to Creator/ClearChannel.

* Garrison Keillor, the original host and creator of ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'', was dismissed by Minnesota Public Radio on November 29, 2017, after allegations of sexual harassment towards a co-worker were reported to the station. While Keillor had already left the show, reruns of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' [[TooSoon were also pulled]] and the show was renamed to ''Live From Here''. It wasn't until MPR and Keillor reaches a settlement that the reruns were once again made public.

* Denver-area conservation talk radio station KNUS-AM fired two of their hosts for controversies within months of each other in 2019.

* Denver-area conservation talk radio station KNUS-AM fired two of their hosts for controversies within months of each other in 2001.

* UsefulNotes/{{Denver}} talk show host Craig Silverman was fired from his post at local conservative station KNUS in November 2019 for making comments critical towards President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, in particular his alliance with Roy Cohn, [[ExecutiveMeddling unaware that the station owners wanted him to appease their listening base and have him glorify the President instead.]] The firing was condemned by Colorado State Representative Dylan Roberts, who called it a "sad day for Colorado and the First Amendment."
* KNUS had to fire ''another'' host [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-bonniwell-school-shooting-remark-about-impeachment-denver-radio-show-cancelled/ the following month]] when Chuck Bonniwell said on-air that he "wish[ed] for a nice [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]] to interrupt" the coverage of Trump's impeachment. Given the Denver area's history of mass shootings (the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre being just the most infamous), the backlash was immediate, with even Bonniwell's co-host Julie Hayden calling him out on it. ''The Chuck & Julie Show'' was canceled just two days later.
* Married conservative radio hosts Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden were fired on the spot from Aurora, Colorado's KNUS-AM in December 2019 after Bonniwell made a remark on-air that he wished for a "nice school shooting" to distract the country from Donald Trump's impending impeachment in the House of Representatives. Hayden tried to do damage control immediately afterwards, but it was too late. The remark caused both local and national outrage, particularly because of the station's proximity to the site of the 1999 Columbine school massacre and the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting, and both hosts were dropped from the station within a day.

* KNUS had to fire ''another'' host the following month when Chuck Bonniwell said on-air that he "wish[ed] for a nice [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]] to interrupt" the coverage of Trump's impeachment. Given the Denver area's history of mass shootings (the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre being just the most infamous), the backlash was immediate, with even Bonniwell's co-host Julie Hayden calling him out on it. ''The Chuck & Julie Show'' was canceled the very next day.

* Denver talk show host Craig Silverman was fired from his post at local conservative station KUNS in November 2019 for making comments critical towards President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, in particular his alliance with Roy Cohn, [[ExecutiveMeddling unaware that the station owners wanted him to appease their listening base and have him glorify the President instead.]] The firing was condemned by Colorado State Representative Dylan Roberts, who called it a "sad day for Colorado and the First Amendment."

* In March 2009, the Atlanta GA radio station Star 94 fired their entire morning show, "The Morning Mess", only a year after they had hired the team and moved them from Indianapolis, IN. They had held a giveaway for Series/HannahMontana concert tickets for kids from gold-star families [[note]] a kid whose parent died in military service [[/note]]. By the time the concert had rolled around, the girl who'd won's mom found cigarettes in her room and decided her punishment was to give the tickets back. They decided to publicly call the mom out on the show for her decision, meaning they were questioning a recent military widow's parenting decision. They were fired the same day with the official reasoning being that the show skewed too young for the time block.

* Garrison Keillor, the original host and creator of ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'', was dismissed by Minnesota Public Radio on November 29, 2017, after allegations of sexual harassment towards a co-worker were reported to the station. While Keillor had already left the show, reruns of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' [[TooSoon were also pulled]] and the show was renamed to ''Live From Here''. Keillor's writing career, however, was unaffected.

** In 2004, when their contract with Infinity expired, they joined Sirius XM, where, unbound by FCC restrictions, they could be as blue and raunchy as they wanted. Their luck finally ran out, however, in 2014, when Anthony Cumia (one half of the duo) was fired after going on a racist UsefulNotes/{{Twitter}} tirade following an altercation with a black woman, in which he referred to black people as "savage, violent animal fucks" and refused to apologize for it. The show continued with Opie and regular second banana Jim Norton.

* [[Radio/TheOpieAndAnthonyShow Opie & Anthony]] did this twice. They were fired from a Boston radio station after announcing the mayor had been killed in a car accident as an April Fool's Day Prank. Four years later they were fired from their nationally syndicated show when, during a contest called "Sex For Sam", a contest where contestants had sex in public places, a couple decided to have sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral and were arrested.
** In 2014 Anthony was fired from Sirius XM for a series of racially charged tweets involving an altercation with a black woman. The show continued with Opie and regular second banana Jim Norton.

* Garrison Keillor, the original host and creator of ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'', was dismissed by Minnesota Public Radio on November 29, 2017, after allegations of sexual harassment towards a co-worker were reported to the station. While Keillor had already left the show, reruns of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' [[TooSoon were also pulled]] and the show was renamed to ''Live From Here''.

* Memphis radio DJ Music/RickDees recorded the novelty song "Disco Duck" in 1976 and it quickly became a hit across the country....everywhere that is, except for Memphis. Dees' own radio station, WMPS, wouldn't play the song, fearing it violated the FCC's conflict of interest rules. No other local station would play the song because it was recorded by a DJ at a rival station. In October 1976, Dees complained on air that he was about to have the #1 song in America, but he wasn't allowed to play it on his own show. The station's programming director fired Dees on the spot. Five days later, "Disco Duck" indeed reached #1 on the Hot 100. After a waiting out a short non-compete clause, Dees was hired by his former station's biggest rival WHBQ, who let him play "Disco Duck" as much as he wanted.

* The infamous "Hold your Wee for a UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}" hosted by radio station KDND and their morning show in 2007 saw all three of the morning hosts fired after the contestant died from water intoxication while trying to win a Wii. This incident would cause massive financial trouble for the radio station and heavily damaged its reputation as well.

* The infamous "Hold your Wee for a UsefulNotes/Wii" hosted by radio station KDND and their morning show in 2007 saw all three of the morning hosts fired after the contestant died from water intoxication while trying to win a Wii. This incident would cause massive financial trouble for the radio station and heavily damaged its reputation as well.

* In March 2018, radio giant Entercom launched 97.3 FM, "The Machine", in San Diego, attempting to build a lineup of talk shows to support the newly-acquired broadcast rights to MLB's San Diego Padres, and enlisting Bay Area shock jock Kevin Klein to headline their morning show. Klein introduced himself to the new media market by tweeting out an ad encouraging listeners to "JUMP ...to a new morning show", over a photo of the Coronado Bridge-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego%E2%80%93Coronado_Bridge#Suicides the second-deadliest suicide bridge in the United States]]. San Diegans were [[DudeNotFunny not amused]], and Klein [[NotHelpingYourCase continued not to endear himself]] to his potential future listeners by mocking the backlash on social media. The following day, the Padres issued a terse press release condemning the station and promising to "reevaluate their relationship"; Klein apologized shortly afterwards, but it was too little, too late, and his show was cancelled the day before it was to debut. The failure of what was to be the station's flagship show led to a total rebrand as "The Fan", with a more dedicated focus on sports talk. Klein quietly joined KROQ in Los Angeles as an afternoon co-host eight months later.

* Radio DJ Danny Baker similarly lost a job as a sports pundit on BBC Radio 5 for an ill-judged emotional outburst on air after his drinking buddy Paul Gascoigne was dropped from the England side for a crucial set of fixtures. Baker's abusive rant against the manager and selectors was not appreciated by the BBC, who did to him what the England manager had done to Gascoigne - dropped an unpredictible, heavy-drinking, and unreliable talent as a liability.

* Craig Carton, the co-host of the popular New York sports talk radio program ''Boomer and Carton'', was suspended and then forced to resign from his role at WFAN-AM in September 2017; He had been arrested and charged for securities and wire fraud resulting from a concert ticket Ponzi scheme he had been running, and was convicted a year later. In 2019, Carton was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

* Craig Carton, the co-host of the popular New York sports talk radio program ''Boomer and Carton'', was suspended and then forced to resign from his role at WFAN-AM in September 2017; He had been arrested for securities and wire fraud resulting from a concert ticket Ponzi scheme he had been running. In 2019, Carton was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

* Tom Ashbrook was removed from hosting the NPR news show ''On Point'' in December 2017 after it was alleged he had verbally abused female colleagues and had created a toxic work environment. He was ultimately fired from the show a few months later.