This left Imus homeless, resorting to sleeping in a laundry and hitchhiking back to Arizona. Imus then moved to Hollywood with his brother in an attempt to find success as musicians and songwriters, but they struggled to get radio DJs to play their songs on the air. He left the Marines with an honorable discharge, and secured work as a window dresser in San Bernardino, before he was fired for performing strip teases on the mannequins for passersby. In 1957, while living in Prescott, Arizona, Imus dropped out of high school and joined the United States Marine Corps at Base Camp Pendleton where he was stationed in an artillery unit before transferring to the Drum and Bugle Corps. Imus disliked school, moving "from one hideous private school to another" and described himself as a "horrible adolescent". He had a younger brother, Fred Imus (1942–2011).
He was said to have Welsh, English, Polish, and Jewish roots. Imus ( née Moore) who ran a 35,000-acre (140 km 2) ranch named The Willows near Kingman, Arizona. Imus was born in Riverside, California, to a wealthy family, the son of John Donald Imus, Sr. 2.4 1988–2007: WFAN and national syndication.He died the following year of complications from lung disease. As a result, Imus ended his show his final show aired on March 29, 2018. In January 2018, Cumulus Media, in the middle of a bankruptcy process, told Imus they were going to stop paying him. He was fired by CBS Radio in April 2007 after describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed 'hos". Throughout his later career, Imus was labeled a " shock jock". Following Howard Stern's success with national syndication, Imus in the Morning adopted the same model in 1993. Imus was fired from WNBC in 1977, then rehired, in 1979, remaining at the station until it left the air in 1988, at which time his show moved to WFAN, which took over WNBC's former frequency of 660 kHz. Three years later, he landed the morning broadcast position at WNBC, in New York City. In 1968 he began his first radio job, at KUTY, in Palmdale, California. His radio show Imus in the Morning was aired on various stations and digital platforms nationwide until 2018. (J– December 27, 2019), also known simply as Imus, was an American radio personality, television show host, recording artist, and author.
NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, 4 NAB Marconi Radio Awards
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