[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Yeah, he's basically been forbidden from mentioning them on the air.

Which makes sense, from a practical, business-oriented standpoint.

If you were an executive working at Infinity Broadcasting, would you want your on-air talent promoting your competition?

[raccoonradio]

>>would you want your on-air talent promoting your competition?

Exactly--in Boston, Sean Hannity is run on WTKK 96.9, tape delayed (station owned by Greater Media). A few months back they refused to run an hour in which Sean talked to Opie and Anthony (who will be on XM, right?). The subject was the indecency war, but listeners in Boston couldn't hear it because WTKK ran a "repeat" hour of Hannity from before. because they didn't want basically an hour-long promo for XM!

[Archangelsk]

Stern's show generates about 100 million dollars worth of revenue per year for Viacom (that's not me talking, that's a paraphrase from his bosses). They won't let him out of his contract early because they want that ka-ching. In fact, there are a lot of morons in radioland that are asking the FCC to regulate paid, subscription-based satellite radio because of the threat he is presenting to their livelihoods. I say, good luck with that.