John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. is an American radio host, humorist, landscape photographer, philanthropist and writer. His nationally syndicated talk show, Imus in the Morning, is broadcast throughout the United States by Cumulus Media Networks and simulcast on television by th...
Licensed ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, since April 1971.
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Favorite songs: "I've Always Been Crazy" by Waylon Jennings.
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Was a brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad. After hearing a morning disc-jockey, went to the nearby radio station and persuaded the owner to hire him. Thus began his career as a radio disc jockey on June 28, 1968 at radio station KUTY in Palmdale, California.
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Raised on a sprawling cattle ranch called "The Willows", neared Kingman, Arizona, which was a few miles from Jeannette Walls's grandmother.
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Hometown is Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Battling stage two prostate cancer [March 16, 2009].
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Served in the Marine Corps as a bugler from 1957 to 1960.
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Vegetarian.
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Along with his brother, Fred Imus, and his wife, Deirdre Coleman Imus, Don Imus founded the "Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer" in 1999 in Ribera, New Mexico.
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Of Welsh ancestry.
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Hired as DJ for the Sacramento station KXOA, Imus once (in about 1969) called a local fast-food restaurant while on the air and ordered 1,200 hamburgers to go, giving specific instructions on how he wanted them prepared. As a result, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that disc jockeys must identify themselves when they telephone listeners.
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Don Imus was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Children with Harriet Showalter: Nadine Imus, Tony Imus, Elizabeth Imus (born on April 29, 1975) and Ashleigh Imus.
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Is an avid landscape photographer.
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Has written several comic novels, including "God's Other Son".
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In the 1970s, he recorded a series of albums that featured recordings of his on-air telephone pranks (including trying to reserve a Formula 1 race car from a auto rental agency), and material from his radio shows.
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