HOUSTON -- The host of a weekly Houston radio program targeted at state prison inmates has resigned after his co-host was banned. David Babb had hosted "Prison Show" since January 2011. The two-hour, Friday night program airs on KPFT-FM, a noncommercial station supported by donations.
Babb says he resigned because KPFT is sending the wrong message by not allowing Jon Matthews to co-host the program and re-enter society. Matthews was a prominent conservative radio talk show host in Houston until his 2004 guilty plea to indecency with a child.
Station general manager Duane Bradley says some staff expressed concern about the potential effect Matthews would have on donors.
Station co-founder Ray Hill, who created the "Prison Show" in 1980, is hosting until a permanent replacement can be found.
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