Longtime Denver radio host Craig Silverman made headlines over the weekend when he said he was yanked off the air during his weekly Saturday radio program for Salem Media Group's KNUS 710 AM while talking in negative terms about President Donald Trump.
But the reporting surrounding the incident has shifted, with the radio station disputing local and national items stating that Silverman was sacked for being pro-impeachment. The station insists that Silverman hadn't been fired at all and could keep doing his program — though an internal email shared below muddies those waters considerably.
There could be additional developments soon. Last week, attorney Dan Caplis, Silverman's former radio partner, offered a tease about possible changes related to his 4 to 6 p.m. show on a rival station, iHeartMedia's KHOW 630 AM. According to Westword, speculation is rife that he'll announce a new team-up with Silverman.
Also, KNUS maintains that a disagreement over talking about a planned guest spot with Caplis, and not Trump-bashing, was the real reason Silverman was removed mid-show.
Silverman spoke to Westword Monday morning. When asked if he was fired for being more critical of Trump than his colleagues at KNUS, whose programming is consistently conservative, Silverman replied, "I don't know what would have happened if I was a top supporter of Donald Trump and I did other media — if the attitude would have been the same. But what I can tell you is, I don't know why I was taken off the air. I know what I was saying during that segment. I know that they cut my mic. And that's what I told reporters. But you won't find any cut from me saying I know they did this to squelch Trump impeachment-inquiry talk. I've never said that."
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