NEW YORK (AP) — The sportscaster who popularized the phrase “Let’s go to the videotape!” has filed an age discrimination over his firing from shock jock Don Imus’ radio show.
The now 80-year-old Warner Wolf charged in the lawsuit filed Thursday that he was illegally fired in 2016 because of his age.
The lawsuit filed in New York state Supreme Court names Imus and three executives with WABC radio and its parent company Cumulus Media as defendants.
A spokesman for Imus said he declined comment. A spokeswoman for Cumulus said the company is not commenting.
The lawsuit says Imus once said it was time to put Wolf “out to pasture” and “shoot him with an elephant dart gun.”
The 77-year-old Imus has announced that his show will go off the air on March 29.