DC Radio: The Fan's Danny Rouhier Blasts SiriusXM

Danny Rouhier

Danny Rouhier of WJFK 106.7 FM The Fan’s “Grant and Danny,” based in Washington, D.C., has offered stern remarks for his satellite radio competitors, for firing a guy once hired “to be provocative,” according to Chris Lingebach at washington.cbslocal.com.

“I don’t agree with Anthony Cumia,” Rouhier said. “I don’t agree with him.”

“You hired him to be provocative,” he said. “You hired him to do these sorts of things on the radio. He’s done stuff just like this on the air....This is a different animal. SiriusXM is supposed to be... anti-terrestrial radio. We’re more restricted, and rightfully so, by the way, we’re more restricted than they are.”

Rouhier pointed to his previous work experience with SiriusXM — where he says he hosted a show with former New York Knicks guard Nate Robinson on the Shade 45 channel — as having a work environment which fell in stark contrast to his current, censored, terrestrial radio gig — which falls under the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission — to prove the point, the environment at SiriusXM was conducive to fostering outlandish behavior.

“I was stunned at what was allowed to go before and after us, just because I wasn’t used to that in the radio game,” Rouhier said. “Now, here, we are restricted. I get that. Part of my deal, I’m working for CBS Radio. There is a different standard.”

“The point I’m trying to make is, you have this unique, subscription-based service that is supposed to be the last bastion of free speech in our country. You have a shock jock, for lack of a better term to express it, who did something shocking. And now is the moment where you say, ‘That’s too much’ because of a Twitter rant? I don’t understand.”

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