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Friday, June 10, 2011

D.C. sports talk host Tony Kornheiser will take most of the summer off

Tony Kornheiser Tony Kornheiser, of Washington, DC's "ESPN 980" WTEM-AM, will be doing a lot of things this summer, but his radio show will not be one of them. Kornheiser let listeners know of his plans, and why, saying on the air, "Everybody knows that in July and August, this show isn’t gonna be on the air at all. Because I saved up a lot of vacation and I’m gonna take that. But it’s also not gonna be on the air next week because [a] decision was made by management — it’s a very complicated thing, and it’s business ... I have a contractual arrangement that allows me to do a certain specific number of shows; I reached that number of shows. So economically, the station decided they’d rather have somebody else and not pay me any more money." The Washington Post reports that while Kornheiser is off, ESPN Radio's Andrew Siciliano will host the show in his absence.

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