Ex-WLW Deters Sez He Might Have Another Gig

Eric Deters

John Kiesewetter at cincinnati.com writes, radio host Eric Deters said he may return to the airwaves soon, after being fired Tuesday by WLW-AM (700). (See original posting, here).

The Northern Kentucky attorney was told Tuesday by Clear Channel market manager Chuck Fredrick he would no longer do weekend or fill-in talk shows on the city’s top-rated station.

He was dropped from the Memorial Day weekend lineup late Friday afternoon, a day after posting a video blog on Facebook saying: “If you want to conquer an African nation, send white women and pot.”

Deters removed the video quickly last week. He called it “an embarrassing thing… Sometimes you say things you wish you didn’t say… and this is one of them.”

Fredrick and Darryl Parks, the Clear Channel executive who hired Deters, did not respond to phone and email requests for interviews.

Nicknamed the “Bulldog,” Deters was weeknight host September through December, before moving to weekends in January. He said he was “very confident” he would return to radio soon.

Jamey Schleue, station manager for WQRT-TV “Real Talk 1160,” said he spoke to Deters about doing 5-7 p.m. weekdays on the station owned by Christian Broadcasting System of Flint, Mich.

“It could happen right away,” said Schleue, who has former WLW-AM personality Andy Furman on 7-9 a.m. weekdays. “But we have to get corporate to sign off on it.”

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