Career in Radio
Sliwa has been a radio broadcaster for more than two decades, most of that time on WABC, where he began his career in 1990. In 1994, the then city-owned and operated WNYC hired Sliwa, who had been released by WABC. Some, including Sliwa, have suggested that he was forced on the station by newly-elected mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom he had supported in the mayoral race. Sliwa stayed four months in the position before moving back to commercial radio.
He was back at WABC in 1996, and in 2000 he became the co-host, with attorney Ron Kuby, of the long-running Curtis and Kuby in the Morning. The show lasted eight years before Citadel Broadcasting replaced the team with Don Imus. The station retained Sliwa until November 2009, when his show was cancelled after a contract dispute. He has since moved to a morning show on WNYM radio.
He presently has two shows on the Station AM970 The Answer. In the morning, he has his own show, and during the "drive home" he co-hosts a show with Criminal Defense Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman.
Sliwa is known for his various nicknames and catchphrases. He often jokingly refers to acts of police brutality as "wooden shampoos".
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