According to a report from The New York Times, 77 WABC has ended the afternoon show hosted by former New York Mayor and Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
The program — heard from 3-4 PM ET — was hosted by Curtis Sliwa Friday, but still used The Rudy Giuliani Show branding.
According to the Times report, station owner John Catsimatidis had continually told the former New York mayor not to air discussions about the 2020 presidential election, which Rudy Giuliani has continually shared he did not believe the results were valid. He has been criminally charged in both Georgia and Arizona for his role in attempting to overturn the results that went against the former President.
“We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice,” Catsimatidis told the newspaper. “And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it. So, he left me no option. I suspended him.”
While he noted he “liked the guy as a person,” Catsimatidis said he couldn’t allow the former New York mayor “to cross that line.”
