‘I’m Coming Back’: KFAB Re-Hires Conservative Radio Host 5 Years After Firing Him
by John Gage
OMAHA – Omaha talk radio station KFAB rehired a longtime radio host five years after they initially fired him. Chris Baker announced his return to the station on Scott Voorhees’s KFAB show on Monday.
“I’m coming back,” Baker told Voorhees. “It’s a dream come true.” Baker is rejoining the station after KFAB host Emory Songer announced he was leaving his four-hour drivetime slot to focus on his other job as a host at a Des Moines radio station.
Baker, who had previously announced he was running for District 6 of the Douglas County Board, said he was dropping his bid in order to host his old show again. He will start with KFAB on Thursday, hosting each weekday from 2 to 6 p.m.
Speaking to The Plains Sentinel by phone, Baker said he did not have much to say regarding his return but was “looking forward to doing a great show.”
Baker said he “goofed up and I paid for it” when asked about the tweet that had gotten him fired from the show in 2021. In 2025, he joined Voorhees’s show to discuss the fallout from his tweet, calling his comment “the tweet of death.”
“This is a trapdoor industry,” he said. “At any moment, that door can open, and you are gone. That is what we all live with.”
On April 20, 2021, following the news of the verdict of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, Baker tweeted the word “Guilty!” above an image of an indigenous African tribe celebrating.
The tweet garnered blowback both in Nebraska and nationally from critics who said it was racist against Black Americans. Baker at the time said he was not being “intentionally” racist but was “a fat-fingered boomer on Twitter.” KFAB fired him a day after he sent the initial tweet.
Baker said he is just glad to have his old show back. “These guys [KFAB] are gracious enough to let me come back and do what I do, which is entertain and have a good time,” he said.
“I have been away for 5 years, and I can’t wait to get back to do great shows.”
John Gage is the executive editor of The Plains Sentinel.
