DENVER — Longtime 710 KNUS on-air talent Randy Corporon has hosted his final show on the talk radio station, after being notified that they would not be renewing his contract.
Corporon and Salem Media Group, which owns KNUS, are currently in a legal battle over remarks made by Corporon and others following the 2020 presidential contest that claimed the election was a fraud.
On June 29th, Corporon took to the air waves for his usual three-hour segment, but announced at the beginning of the show that it would be the last after station management gave him the contractually promised 30-day notice that his show was being canceled.
KNUS did not return calls from Complete Colorado seeking more information.
Corporon has been hosting “Wake up with Randy Corporon” for more than a decade. One of the top elected Republican Party officials in the state — National Committeeman — Corporon’s program has been a conduit for he and other like-minded members of the party to spread their messages, including one that landed he and KNUS in court after Dominion Voting Systems executive Erick Coomer filed a defamation lawsuit for what Coomer called “false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.”
The suit alleges that Corporon and KNUS “elevated Dr. Coomer into the national spotlight, invaded his privacy, threatened his security, and fundamentally defamed his reputation through a relentless election fraud campaign.”
Coomer has settled out of court on several other similar suits, including one against former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell and another with Fox News.
Corporon got his jump start in the Colorado Republican Party while Barack Obama was in office when he started the Arapahoe County Tea Party.
Corporon said he was notified his show was canceled in mid-to late-June. Both sides had agreed contractually to give each other 30 days notice, but after his first show following the notice, Corporon decided to hang it up two weeks early.
A ‘new incredible life’
“After doing the show last Saturday, I decided something I’ve been thinking about since the death of my wife,” Corporon said. … “And I’ve been thinking about pretty seriously since getting back into it and starting up this new incredible life.”
The new incredible life he referred to is a new love interest, whom he had on the final show with him to introduce her to the public and explain that the two met during a grief counseling meeting they both attended over the sudden and tragic loss of their spouses.
“God worked some amazing miracles for me and brought this very special lady into my life who was suffering in the same darkness that I am,” he said.
He said he thought he would continue to do the show until the end of the election, before leaving on his own, but when the decision was made by the station he just “decided it’s time to pull the plug.”
The timing around the decision to cancel his show came was just weeks after the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a similar lawsuit brought by Coomer against Salem Media Group, syndicated host Eric Metaxas, and 14 others could move forward. It was also just weeks after Salem issued an apology and settled for a “significant” undisclosed amount of money to Georgia voter Mark Andrews for claiming that he engaged in illegal voting in the book and movie “2,000 Mules,” which Salem produced, promoted and sold.
As a lawyer, Corporon has represented the Colorado GOP in several lawsuits, including a failed effort to reverse the current primary election laws in Colorado.
Most recently, he has been named in another suit for falling for a scam and wiring $375,000 of a client’s money to a hacker as part of a divorce settlement, according to Business Den.
Corporon said on his final show that the death of his wife Tana in June of 2023 caused him to miss “months and months” of doing the show, and that he has thought seriously of hanging it up since that time. KNUS cutting ties just helped him make that choice, no matter how much he loved doing the show.
“It’s been hard to give up a Saturday,” he said, adding the number of hours in the morning getting everything ready was a lot of work. “Where I live now, it’s an hour and a half of travel each way. All those things were conspiring in my head to say maybe it’s time to give up this Saturday night joy that I have with you.”
Corporon vows to come back, but not until at least after the November election. He said he’s been approached by other outlets he called “truly conservative, conservative outlets.”
But for now, he said he wants to commit more time to his new love as well as his grandchildren and work on other things.
“I want to get the start of my new life going and sort myself out,” he said. “And I want to take care of some personal problems that need to be dealt with.”
