Conservative Fox television show host Sean Hannity started his radio career beneath UCSB's Storke Tower on the airwaves of KCSB 91.9 FM, before being booted in 1989 for making “multiple discriminatory statements based on sexual orientation” in violation of campus policy.
The Santa Barbara Independent's June 22, 1989 story on Hannity's dismissal from KCSB
As part of KCSB's 50th anniversary celebration, the station will by tapping its archive on Thursday, December 22, from 10 a.m. to noon, to air some of the material that led to his ouster as well as recollections of the event from station veterans Elizabeth Robinson and Richard Flacks.
“We've been airing archival materials all year, in commemoration of our Golden Anniversary,” said the station's development coordinator Ted Coe. “It's part of a larger initiative here at KCSB to build up and preserve the expansive audio history that's been created and aired from here.” Coe said that Flacks recently uncovered a tape of what appears to be Hannity's last broadcast, and since anniversaries should be about acknowledging bad times as well as the good, it was quickly decided to air the material.
So tune into 91.9 FM at 10 a.m. and listen to Hannity's last show — well, at least one of the last ones till he skyrocketed to arch-conservative fame.
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Do I have to? It is bad enough I have to listen to this JackA$$ on Fox as I blast by the channel every day when he is on. Why would KCSB replay such remarks? for historical value?
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
December 22, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Here's a link to archival audio of today's broadcast: http://www.kcsb.org/interviews/revisi...
Here's a bit of written background on the case, which touches on some of the context-building covered during the entire two-hour conversation: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1158
freakpowerticket (anonymous profile)
December 22, 2011 at 5:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Freedom of speech, ain't it a peach? :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
December 22, 2011 at 5:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
When I zoomed in on the newspaper article it got so blurry I couldn't read it.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
December 22, 2011 at 8:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Thank goodness I missed this "momentous" occasion. Why would anyone want to listen to the rantings of a certified domestic terrorist madman? Hannity continues to do more harm to this country than a echelon of 911 planes could ever hope to do.
Draxor (anonymous profile)
December 23, 2011 at 7 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You're a great american...
No you are a great american...
No you are a great american...
It's enough to make you want to puke.
A Pew Research study shows that people who listen to no news at all are more informed than people who listen to Fox.
Journalists? Propagandists!
Roger Ailes, President of Fox... Thank you for the Bush Crime Family takeover of the US.
A little note after the 2000 Florida Election Results were called for Gore, and everyone had gone home a man named John Ellis of the Fox Station in Miami called the election for Bush. Jeb Bush's initials JEB stand for JOHN ELLIS BUSH! It turns out the man John Ellis is either Jeb Bush's uncle or cousin.
Yes thank you Fox and Sean Hannity for your traitorous sell out of the United States, the comments that Sean and Rupert Murdoch have made that their audience should wear bibs to catch the spit from their chew speaks volumes about the relationship these two pigs have with their audience.
contactjohn (anonymous profile)
December 24, 2011 at 1:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
At least the Progressives have a full tank of vitriol. Having listened to Hannity numerous times while driving between SB and San Francisco (instead of Mexican radio stations), I simply found him exceedingly boring albeit I found Air America even more boring and equally pious. Plus, Hannity does not purport to be a newscaster, it's a damn talk show.
It's odd that Progressives seem to feel that free speech will insure that everyone will agree with their point of view...Isn't this Hannity material the kind of thing that the station might make available through their website but not take up current on-air time? I don't get their point.
italiansurg (anonymous profile)
December 24, 2011 at 6:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What I find interesting is when an individual of "conservative" leanings throws out opinion (such as Hannity) the "progressives" deem it as news.
When a "progressive" throws out opinion (such as Franken) the "progressives" deem it as gospel.
The thing is they could both be saying the same thing, but the "progressive" appointed title dictates the worthiness of what's said & I can say that on both sides it amounts to caca de vaca :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
December 28, 2011 at 1:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)