A report on his first day back on the air:

He said that every time he would get upset about how he was treated – he was fired from CBS Radio and MSNBC – “I would remind myself that if I hadn’t said what I said, then we wouldn’t be having this discussion.” Imus apologized Monday again to the players. “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. “And no one else will say anything else on my program that will make anyone think that I didn’t deserve a second chance.” While saying he had learned his lesson, he added – to applause from the live audience at Manhattan’s Town Hall: “The program is not going to change.” His debut, on WABC-AM, completed a comeback that seemed improbable at the height of the uproar back in April over his calling the players “nappy-headed hos.” His guests on Monday’s show included historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sens. John McCain and Chris Dodd, and political analysts James Carville and Mary Matalin.