A contrite Don Imus returned to radio today. He discussed the controversial remarks he made in the spring that led to his firing.

As The New York Times notes.

Redemption was in the air yesterday. In the air and on the airwaves. There hadn’t been so much talk about redeeming since the heyday of S & H Green Stamps.
The reason was Don Imus, back on the radio after eight months in exile.

His Elba was surely cosseted, made bearable by a multimillion-dollar settlement with CBS, the employer that had fired him. Still, exile is exile. But having done penance, Mr. Imus regained his microphone by the grace of Citadel Broadcasting, whose outlet in New York City is WABC-AM (770 on your radio dial, as some say, despite not having seen a radio dial in decades).

Mr. Imus wasted no time making clear yesterday morning that he took redemption seriously. He had been given a second chance, he said. He pledged to prove himself worthy by using “this new incarnation” of his show to explore race relations in America. To assist him along that road, he added two black sidekicks to his retinue.

One more thing. “I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me,” he said before a live audience at Town Hall in Midtown. “And no one else will say anything on my program that will make anybody think that I didn’t deserve a second chance.”