WILL MARK LEVIN BE NEXT?

Foamer isn't as crude as Jay Severin seems to have been but he's certainly full of lies & rudeness.  The article cites Severin's poor ratings as the main reason so I'm wondering how Levin stays on the air because he doesn't seem to have a wide variety of callers.  I have counted but my impression is that many come from KSFO.

Contentious talk show host Severin fired
WTKK’s step may reflect a shift in radio culture
April 07, 2011|By Mark Shanahan, Boston Globe Staff

Jay Severin, the highly paid radio talk show host whose provocative on-air comments twice resulted in suspensions, was fired by WTKK-FM (96.9) yesterday.

Severin was let go because he did not maintain an “appropriate level of civility and adhere to a standard that respects our listeners and the public at large,’’ according to a statement released by Greater Media Inc., which owns WTKK. “Unfortunately, it had become clear at several points in the past two years that Jay was either unwilling or unable to maintain our standards on the air.’’

Severin, who signed a seven-year contract in 2006 that pays him close to $1 million a year, was suspended last week for defending the idea of a boss sleeping with female staffers. He had done so himself, he said, “because I could.’’

A self-described libertarian and “rock ‘n’ roll Republican,’’ he arrived on local airwaves in 2000 and immediately displayed his fondness for rhetorical bombshells. He used a crude epithet to refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton, called President Obama “demonstrably a racist,’’ and said that in his world “the poor and stupid would starve.’’

Severin was pulled off the radio in 2009 after he called Mexican immigrants “primitives,’’ “leeches,’’ and exporters of “women with mustaches and VD.’’