Confirmed: Geraldo Rivera to WABC

The rumors proved to be accurate. The New York Times’ Brian Stelter writes about Geraldo Rivera joining WABC…

In a deal to be announced Monday, Mr. Rivera will host the 10 and 11 a.m. hours on WABC in Manhattan, one of the nation’s biggest stations. Cumulus Media, which acquired the station this year, anticipates that Mr. Rivera will broaden the audience of the station, which is best known for having the conservative heavy hitters Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.

Mr. Rivera will remain a weekend anchor and a correspondent on the Fox News Channel, where he said he had just signed a new four-year contract. But his role on the radio will give him vastly more air time and a new perch in New York, the city where he started in journalism in 1970 at WABC-TV, formerly the sister station to WABC radio.

“What goes around has definitely come around,” he said in a telephone interview.