Posted on 01/09/2007 1:18:23 PM PST by iowamark
That'd be rich punk. Kind of like a rich guy is eccentric, but a poor guy is crazy.
To each his own. For example, I love Stern, and I think Rush blows.
The media gives Stern a pass because he, Stern, is a liberal. Stern has stated that he's happy the democrats
won control of Congress. Fine....perhaps Nancy Pelosi should raise his tax bracket to 90%......
Where's Barney Frank to protest this pay issue, when we need him?
I may have. I'm not sure.
Can you do that regularly in a manner that will grab a lot of people's attention for sometime, and then hold that attention while you duck out periodically and let them be bombarded with commercials, and just as they are about to leave you spring right back in and continue ?
They did a great job on the Christmas stations. But I can't understand why they let NASCAR go to Sirius. I have XM but I am considering a change to be able to listen to the races when I can't be in front of the TV.
They probably will raise the top bracket to 90%, but would craft if so Hollywood incomes would be excluded.....
A liberal who voted for Reagan twice in the 1980s . . .
We also know there are armies of perverts who live in porno sites.... it should not be, but it is a fact of life and I can live with it.
Sex and crudeness sells in this day and age...ugh
In what age didn't it?
One-trick ponies typically don't have radio careers that span over 25 years . . .
"I cant believe he is getting all that money to sit around and talk about girls and boobs. i have been doing that all of my life and havent earned one cent from it."
That's not enough; you must mock the retarded as well.
A hugh and sirius bonus!
Shortly after World War II, in late 1946, the FCC created the FM band as it exists today... 88 to 108 Mhz. They gave every existing AM station an automatic FM License. Few AM Stations bothered to build their FM Station.
But many people out side of radio were certain that the increased fidelity and resistance to static would soon make FM the dominate medium.
But even as late as the mid 1960s, the FM audience was less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the total U.S. Radio audience. For over 20 years after the creation of the FM band, there was next to no FM Radio Audience.
In 1969 I committed every thing I owned to apply for an FM Station. I remember friends in the radio business thought I was nuts to bet all I had on an FM station. By 1969 the FM audience had grown to about 3 percent of the total Radio audience. AM still had 97 percent of the listeners. But it had grown from 0.5 Percent to 3 percent in a little over 2 years.
I was granted a construction permit in March of 1972 and by that date almost 5 percent of the total audience was listening to FM.
By 1977 the FM Audience was slightly over half the total audience.... FM went over 50 percent. By the early 1980s the situation was nearly reversed ... AM was down to 4 or 5 percent of the total audience.
In 1988 the FCC changed the rules making News Talk legal. Shortly thereafter Rush Limbaugh hit the AM waves saving AM.
My point is it takes a very long time to introduce a new way of distributing programming. It took 25 years for FM to make it, and it took well over a decade for Color TV to be in a majority of American homes.
History says it will take a long time for satellite radio to become a major factor. History also says being first is of little value. Those that get into the new method of distribution just as it takes off are the ones that make the money. In broadcasting early bird rarely gets the worm.
Well, Sam Kennison did clean up his act and got rid of a lot of profanities. THEN God killed him.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
I heard that XM and Sirius were going to merge, which would be fine by me...I'd even pay more a month to get everything they both offer. I love satellite radio. But I hate Stern.
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