Dave Wingert, popular gay Omaha DJ, returns to air Monday — on a different station — after Bain Capital-instigated purge of talent at Clear Channel

Dave Wingert, facebook photo

Omaha morning DJ Dave Wingert, host of the second most popular radio show in Nebraska's largest city before being fired by Clear Channel's KGOR after a Bain Capital cost analysis, will be back on the air Monday at K000 FM 101.9 from 6 am to noon.

Wingert, a force in Nebraska radio for decades and a member of the Nebraska Broadcasting Hall of Fame, is immensely popular. AKSARBENT's post about his firing has received about 3500 hits from people who presumably were so jarred by his sudden disappearance from the airwaves that they went looking for him on Google.

AKSARBENT doubts that Mitt Romney's company, Bain Capital, which owns a lot of stock in Clear Channel, will save enough from its stupid firing of Wingert to weather the loss of revenue it will inevitably suffer as thousands of Wingert's fans desert KGOR for KOOO.

NRG Media of Cedar Rapids, Iowa owns K000, as well as KOIL and KKAR AM and KQKQ FM and 41 other stations in Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.

Wingert was host of Clear Channel's highly rated morning show on KGOR-FM in Omaha for almost five years before being axed in mid-October after an expletive aired live on the air.

It speaks to the intimacy of the radio medium, of which Wingert is a master, that he has been able to matter-of-factly let listeners know where he stands without losing a very Red State audience.