Controversial talkback radio host Michael Laws will spend a third week off the airwaves, as RadioLive considers his hosting future.
The outspoken broadcaster has been on leave since he made comments about shooting journalists over their coverage of the so-called ‘teapot tape’ saga.
"If I had a gun I'd shoot them, put them out of their misery, because they have gone rabid and they may infect others,” Mr Laws said a week prior to the general election.
"The Herald on Sunday, for example, which is rabid all the time. No idea why somebody hasn't taken the shotgun there and just cleaned out the entire newsroom."
RadioLive general manager Jana Rangooni says Mr Laws would remain on leave during discussions "relating to matters" regarding his talkback show.
She said neither side would comment further "until there is a resolution".
Mr Laws wrote on Twitter on Monday night that he had "another week of leave ... but this time without the distraction of being beaten up inside the ring :)".
He was referring to a charity boxing match with Maori Party co-vice president Ken Mair on Saturday night, which ended in a draw.
Mr Laws criticised the media over the teapot tape, on his RadioLive show and in a newspaper column, after a conversation between Prime Minister John Key and ACT's Epsom candidate John Banks was secretly recorded and handed to the Herald on Sunday.
He later said the on-air comments were a joke.
Mr Laws has previously drawn criticism for racist comments about former Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand, and in 2006 referred to the late Tongan king as a "bloated, brown slug".
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