Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be making a comeback after losing the 2024 mayoral election to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani \u2014 but it\u2019s not what you think.<\/p>\n
The 68-year-old Democrat is in talks with 77 WABC to host a weekly radio gig, the station\u2019s owner John Catsimatidis, confirmed to The Post.<\/p>\n
Andrew Cuomo\u2019s next gig may involve a weekly radio show. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n
The former governor is in talks to appear on WABC 77, which is owned by John Catsimatidis, he confirmed to The Post. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he wants to do [a show] once a week. He wants to stay in touch with the people,\u201d said Catsimatidis, who said a show is \u201cin the works.\u201d<\/p>\n
The station owner, who also owns the Gristedes supermarket chain in the city, teased the possible gig on his \u201cCats Roundtable\u201d program Sunday in an interview with the former governor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear you may be talking a little bit more on WABC radio in the near future,\u201d Catsimatidis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think your station has an audience that is participatory, and large,\u201d Cuomo replied. \u201cIt\u2019s very important \u2026 that we understand what\u2019s going on and have informed dialogue and your station is a great vehicle to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said the longtime politician will be a publicly engaged citizen.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom fighting the scourge of antisemitism to the future of cities and urban America, among other issues, Andrew Cuomo has a perspective and points of view that more than 900,000 New Yorkers supported in the last race,\u201d Azzopardi said. \u201cHe will continue to speak out on the important issues on WABC and many other media outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catsimatidis declined to say if Cuomo would be paid, though the ex-governor doesn\u2019t need a radio gig for the money.<\/p>\n
Cuomo hopping on WABC\u2019s airwaves comes after his Republican rival in last year\u2019s election left his show on the station. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
He made $4.7 million in 2024 via his legal consulting business.<\/p>\n
After resigning as governor in 2021, Cuomo briefly hosted his own podcast.<\/p>\n
The possibility of Cuomo hopping on WABC\u2019s airwaves comes after his Republican rival in last year\u2019s election left his show on the station amid an election row with its the station owner.<\/p>\n
Curtis Sliwa, founder of beret-wearing vigilante group the Guardian Angels, switched to iHeartMedia\u2019s 710 WOR when Catsimatidis and hosts on the station said the Republican should step aside to give Cuomo a better shot at beating Mamdani<\/p>\n
Cuomo was running on an independent line, while Mamdani held the Democratic Party line after beating the ex-governor and a handful of other candidates in a ranked-choice primary.<\/p>\n
Sliwa refused and took exception to the lack of support. Mamdani went on to win and was sworn in as mayor this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be making a comeback after losing the 2024 mayoral election to democratic socialist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,154,8305,57,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-96601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-curtis-sliwa","10":"tag-john-catsimatidis","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}