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Stephen King Fails with Liberal Talk Radio
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Stephen King Fails with Liberal Talk Radio

BANGOR, Maine — On Thursday afternoon, Dale Duff and Clem LaBree were preparing for their 4 to 6 p.m. sports talk show on Bangor radio station WZON-AM 620.

At 1:30 p.m., Duff was editing and cutting highlights of Wednesday night’s Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics games.

Fifteen minutes later, Duff and LaBree were told they were out of their jobs immediately.

Duff, who writes a blog for Bangor Daily News, was the sports director and sportscaster and LaBree was a reporter and sportscaster.

Duff was hired by station owner and best-selling author Stephen King 19 years ago to be the sports director of the state’s first 24-hour sports talk station.

It was King who delivered the news on Thursday, Duff said.

“He said we were losing too much money. He said it didn’t have anything to do with broadcast quality,” said Duff. “He thanked us for our hard work.”

Duff said he and LaBree cleaned out their desks and left the station for good Thursday night.

He said they will receive severance packages.

The Zone Corp. has undergone a number of changes in recent years.

The 24-hour, all-sports format was ditched in favor of a progressive liberal talk show format in November 2010.

Duff and LaBree had their 6-9 a.m. sports talk show shifted to 4-6 p.m.

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http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/31/sports/stephen-king-pulls-plug-on-wzon-sportscasters-dale-duff-clem-labree/



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King took over, dropped Rush Limbaugh (ouch), and made it a Sports Channel, he later decided to follow his Progressive Liberal Politics.

This was written in the Bangor Daily News when he shelved the popular networking for his Liberal Politics:

"Stephen King is of course entitled to do whatever he wants to with his stations, no question," Solari added. "But in my opinion, this was not just a business decision. This has to do more with internal politics and Zonecorp management issues than business, and sports fans in Eastern Maine are the ones hurt the most by the decision."



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Jun 1 2012, 03:39 PM
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.
All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.All work and no play, makes Stephen a dull boy.

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