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Houston CBS affiliate boots Rather show

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By Michael Graczyx
Associated Press

Sept. 27, 2004 | HOUSTON (AP) -- Dan Rather's daily CBS radio broadcast is off the air where he grew up. Houston CBS radio affiliate KPRC hasn't been running it for the last couple weeks in reaction to his "60 Minutes" report questioning President Bush's National Guard service.

"I felt no anchor ... should ever be the story or bigger than the story," Ken Charles, program director of the news-talk station, said Monday. "I thought it was appropriate to take him off the air."

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For right now, I'm not convinced there's any reason to put him back on the radio station," said Charles, whose station lineup includes opinion-based talk shows of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. "Until CBS or somebody is able to do that, I feel like there's no place for Dan Rather on KPRC."

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CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said he was unaware of the station's action and declined to comment on it.