CBS RADIO: How embarrassing

[eGillCVI]

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060228/ap_en_tv/cbs_howard_stern">CBS Radio Crying and Whining After Stern Loss</a href>

I actually feel embarrassed for them. Talk about a sore loser!

I would like to think that they'll lose any lawsuit they may decide to file but, judging by the way this country's judicial system has been working in the past decade or so, I see a big monetary reward in their future.

I guess if you can't make money by selling ads on your shittily-programmed radio stations, ya have to look for other revenue streams...

 

[radiophile]

> I guess if you can't make money by selling ads on your
> shittily-programmed radio stations, ya have to look for
> other revenue streams...
>
Yeah, check out YSP's drop on Radio and Records today in the first Winter Arbitrend. Certainly seems like they aren't going to be making nearly as much money as they used to.

On a side note: MGK had a nice bounce up. Debella picking up former Stern listeners???

 

[BobAltimari]

> CBS Radio Crying and Whining After Stern Loss
>
> I actually feel embarrassed for them. Talk about a sore
> loser!
>
> I would like to think that they'll lose any lawsuit they may
> decide to file but, judging by the way this country's
> judicial system has been working in the past decade or so, I
> see a big monetary reward in their future.
>
> I guess if you can't make money by selling ads on your
> shittily-programmed radio stations, ya have to look for
> other revenue streams...
>

If you owned a radio company, the jock that made your corporation a MAJOR player for years goes over to a competing form of media, then his replacement drives away roughly 75% of your audience....ehhh, dollars to doughnuts you'd be whining, too!<P ID="signature">______________
I've done it all...HOO HOO...tell 'em, Fred!
FOX News Alert: YOU SUCK!!! Ya like apples?</P>

 

[Irishfl]

Its there own fault. The second he started using his free radio show to promote Sirius, they should have pulled him off the air. Or atleast took him off a few months before he left, inorder to get people use to DLR, and use to not listening to Stern.

 

[Dr_Angus]

Everyone is right. I would be more then happy
to defend Howard, though I only have a doctorate in cheese.
If he was in breech of contract then why only a one day suspension?
They only realized this AFTER they cashed in on everyday of his
contract?? A judge is going to laugh in there face as everyone is now.
I just got off the phone with Mr Sirius, he would like to thank Infinity
on continuing to keep Howard's name in the public eye. They really have
been such good sports in helping Sirius with gaining listeners, just look at there
new formats, brining them in, in droves.
"It is just that easy, it is just that cheesy"
Dr Angus

 

[musicrrrr]

> CBS Radio Crying and Whining After Stern Loss
>
> I actually feel embarrassed for them. Talk about a sore
> loser!

Yeah...this lawsut is a joke. CBS owned the stations, if they didn't like the content of his last days, they shouldn't have allowed him to talk up Sirius, or they should have given him his walkin' papers.

End of story. Think about this...WBEN, WWDB, WYSP, Y100, WPEN, have all been destroyed not by competiton...but by the owners and programmers themselves. It's "The Enemy Within" syndrome.

The current state of terrestrial radio is laughable at best. It's almost as if Sirius and XM are programming AM/FM stations themselves in order to get more people to subscribe to satellite radio. Maybe station owners think that if they destroy enough of their own radio staions, Sirius and XM will cut them in on a share of the profits.

Some people think that Japan knew they were going to lose the war and dropped the bomb on themselves in order to get America to re-build their nation. If this is the case...it's one of the most brilliant conspiracies of modern times.

 

[RiffRaff]

> > CBS Radio Crying and Whining After Stern Loss
> >
> > I actually feel embarrassed for them. Talk about a sore
> > loser!
>
> Yeah...this lawsut is a joke. CBS owned the stations, if
> they didn't like the content of his last days, they
> shouldn't have allowed him to talk up Sirius, or they should
> have given him his walkin' papers.
>
> End of story. Think about this...WBEN, WWDB, WYSP, Y100,
> WPEN, have all been destroyed not by competiton...but by the
> owners and programmers themselves. It's "The Enemy Within"
> syndrome.
>
> The current state of terrestrial radio is laughable at best.
> It's almost as if Sirius and XM are programming AM/FM
> stations themselves in order to get more people to subscribe
> to satellite radio. Maybe station owners think that if they
> destroy enough of their own radio staions, Sirius and XM
> will cut them in on a share of the profits.
>
> Some people think that Japan knew they were going to lose
> the war and dropped the bomb on themselves in order to get
> America to re-build their nation. If this is the
> case...it's one of the most brilliant conspiracies of modern
> times.
>
The Twilight Zone theme song should have been under that post!
Dude...There's someone in the bushes! Although in mist of your dementia, there's a shred of truth; the programmers are ultimately responsible. Along with the ultra flawed arbitron system and programmers accepting them as gospel and not a guidline as they are intended. You're right, radio must get up and fight or they are going to die. WHERE ARE THE PROGRAMMERS! Lee Abrams, one of the greatest programmers of our time, did it to radio with the advent of AOR and now he's done it again to radio with XM satellite. Whatever Abrams programmed, he thought outside the corporate box and made great changes that swept all markets. As long as the suits have a hand in programming, this will never be resolved.

Now tell me about that bomb again?!?!

 

[eGillCVI]

This is what I'm saying. Well, without the cheese.

Of course CBS isn't happy but they were the ones who treated Howard like crap and didn't defend him as they should have. If I were them, I'd have just sucked it up and moved on by now. This public whining is embarrassing and only promotes Stern and Sirius.

It's like when a kid is grounded and sent to his room, where he proceeds to scream and yell and throw things...as if that's gonna make his mom let him out of his room. Any rational person knows that the kid is only prolonging his misery by acting up. That's pretty much exactly what CBS is doing in this case.



> Everyone is right. I would be more then happy
> to defend Howard, though I only have a doctorate in cheese.
>
> If he was in breech of contract then why only a one day
> suspension?
> They only realized this AFTER they cashed in on everyday of
> his
> contract?? A judge is going to laugh in there face as
> everyone is now.
> I just got off the phone with Mr Sirius, he would like
> to thank Infinity
> on continuing to keep Howard's name in the public eye. They
> really have
> been such good sports in helping Sirius with gaining
> listeners, just look at there
> new formats, brining them in, in droves.
> "It is just that easy, it is just that cheesy"
> Dr Angus
>