"Listeners won't know what Stern plans to do until Jan. 3, when he returns from vacation."
At the rate Stern is going, I wouldn't be surprised he does something that will get him kicked off Infinity Broadcasting in no time flat. 
Posted on 12/25/2004 5:20:14 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howard's end? The shock jock is almost dead on the public airwaves: One more indecency blunder and Stern is off.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The shock jock died Thursday on public radio.
On Dec. 23, a portentous deal reached last month between Viacom, the owner of the country's second-largest radio station operator, and federal anti-indecency watchdogs went into effect. On top of paying $3.5 million to end several ongoing investigations of on-air public broadcasts, Viacom agreed to additional measures aimed at preventing future material deemed obscene, profane or indecent.
If Viacom has lived up to settlement terms, Howard Stern has now gone through sensitivity training. Worse for Stern, if the Federal Communications Commission issues another "Notice of Apparent Liability" (the official sign that decency cops think laws were broken), then Viacom has agreed to yank Stern off the air. The consent decree covers only broadcasts from Dec. 23 and on. Stern, who claims he was unaware of these provisions, expressed outrage earlier this month, arguing that he's been set up to be canned and threatening to play only music. Listeners won't know what Stern plans to do until Jan. 3, when he returns from vacation.
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Howard should just go away. His soul is in deep need of some work.
Kinky Friedman, Jean Shepherd, The Flying Burrito Bros., Johnny Cash, inter alia, are the only musicians that are worth listening to, in my opinion.
The only "recent" group that makes music worth listening to is Presidents of the United States.
It was-essentially-a biopic, starring Howard and his friends/colleagues.
OUCH! ;)
You have 10 seconds to lower that obscene speaker system or you will be vaporized!
"Listeners won't know what Stern plans to do until Jan. 3, when he returns from vacation."
At the rate Stern is going, I wouldn't be surprised he does something that will get him kicked off Infinity Broadcasting in no time flat.
Wouldn't "Foggy Bottom" work much better if they just followed that simple maxim? :)
Actually, he (supposedly) wrote the book, but the screenplay was written by Len Blum. I was a fan...then.
And a nekkid blond!
Yeah ... okay. ;)
(Must resolve to read closer next time.)
Personally, I have the opposite take on it. I love Howard. :o)
nothing "talent"
This was the initial promise of cable television. Cable television now resembles network television.
There is no way Sirius can make enough money from subscriber revenue only, especially to pay "on the air" personalities such as Howard Stern, millions and millions of dollars.
Advertising will slowly but surely creep into the "broadcast" over time.
I will not be suckered again.
I understand - but - XM has Opie and Anthony, and if you thought Stern was gross...
They interrupt music channels for "banter" and station promos?! How is that any better than regular radio, and why would I pay for it?
From what I have read on the Yahoo finance board (XMSR) about their portable unit it has bad reception problems and dropouts. Likely due to the ground based repeaters. Sirius sats cover North America much better than XM's. What I would really like to see is a collaboration between Apple and Sirius so that I could access and download to my Ipod Sirius play lists. I am always hearing something on Sirius that I would like to record but can't find on I-Tunes. Rumors about something with Apple and Sirius abound. My idea would not be terribly expensive to implement and would make money for both companies and really grow the model.
$12.95/month x (let's be conservative given a 3-year period) 15,000,000 = $194,250,000/month or approximately $2.3 billion/year. I'd say that's a lot of ka-ching to work with. Also, aside from maintenance on the repeater stations (mostly in urban areas), there is little infrastructure to be built since the three satellite constellation (Sirius, XM has two) are already in geo-sync orbit (more on this from this link).
Pedro who??????...........fenway
Hey, you might want to get in on this since it will inevitably turn to GPS, WAAS and LAAS. :-)
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