Don Imus Says He’s Leaving Fox Business Network

On Monday morning, Don Imus announced that he is leaving the Fox Business Network at the end of May. Wait, what? Yes buried in the 6 a.m. hour of his show he revealed that Imus in the Morning will go “off television” on May 29.

Media blog FTVLive reported the mystery tip while still wondering if it was true.

Well, we found the clip. “Why? I do not know,” Imus said. “One hundred times more people listen to the radio than listen to television,” he said, seemingly stabbing at his current TV network.

We’ve asked Fox Business Network to confirm his alleged departure and will update this post accordingly. If true, it would at least partially explain why the 74-year-old radio host felt so free to openly trash his Fox colleague Dana Perino, as we reported earlier this morning.

Watch below, via FBN:

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