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ADC
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Here's what I thought about it as posted on my website.
For the last year, Howard Stern has been trying to convince his listeners to pay $12.95 a month and follow him to Sirius radio. He's been somewhat successful with reports of around a 2.5 million increase in Sirius subscriptions since his push. Today was the premiere of David Lee Roth taking over Howard's old time slot and after listening to the first hour, I suspect Sirius will sell another 2.5 million subscriptions this week.
How bad was it?
Really bad!
The show opened with DLR launching in to an incoherent monologue about his radio roots and the influence of his Uncles on his love for radio. The speech was disjointed and painful to listen to and I was happy when it was over and he moved onto a song.
After the song he took some calls. The first call was inconsequential and so boring that I don't even remember enough of it to repeat it here. The second call had more promise. A woman called and said that she knew a whole lot about DLR the rock star, but would like to know something about DLR the man. DLR told her this was her big chance, ask him anything. She said that she had heard rumors that DLR had gotten married and she was wondering if he had any kids. Roth's response was that he never talked about his love life because Nick and Jessica did that and their relationship never had a chance. He added a few marginally funny comments and then cut to a commercial.
So much for getting to know DLR the man.
Roth went into another diatribe about censorship. I'm still not sure if he was for or against it and I'm not sure he knows either.
There were more incoherent monologues all done with the accompaniment of background music that would swell up anytime DLR said something that was supposed to be funny. Followed by brief interludes of music and the occasional interruption of two of his sidekicks, British Dude and Black Dude (My names not his, since neither of these gents were ever introduced to the audience)
And that's about it. The show was without value what so ever and I found myself looking forward to the commercials because they were more entertaining then the DLR stuff.
Roth is an incredibly talented rock singer whom I like a lot and I don't blame him for taking this gig but I do blame the industry clowns who thought that he would be a good replacement for Howard in a number of markets. Just what were they thinking?
Maybe they figured they didn't have a chance, so why not just throw a big name talent into the pool and see if they would get lucky with it. Either that or most of them had bought Sirius stock and saw this as a way of making the investment pay off.
Unless this become an Air America situation where the show is kept on the air just to make a point, I suspect that Roth's tenure will be short lived and we'll soon see someone else doing the morning show.
- Al
http://www.carnali.com<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ADC on 01/03/06 01:19 PM.</FONT></P>
For the last year, Howard Stern has been trying to convince his listeners to pay $12.95 a month and follow him to Sirius radio. He's been somewhat successful with reports of around a 2.5 million increase in Sirius subscriptions since his push. Today was the premiere of David Lee Roth taking over Howard's old time slot and after listening to the first hour, I suspect Sirius will sell another 2.5 million subscriptions this week.
How bad was it?
Really bad!
The show opened with DLR launching in to an incoherent monologue about his radio roots and the influence of his Uncles on his love for radio. The speech was disjointed and painful to listen to and I was happy when it was over and he moved onto a song.
After the song he took some calls. The first call was inconsequential and so boring that I don't even remember enough of it to repeat it here. The second call had more promise. A woman called and said that she knew a whole lot about DLR the rock star, but would like to know something about DLR the man. DLR told her this was her big chance, ask him anything. She said that she had heard rumors that DLR had gotten married and she was wondering if he had any kids. Roth's response was that he never talked about his love life because Nick and Jessica did that and their relationship never had a chance. He added a few marginally funny comments and then cut to a commercial.
So much for getting to know DLR the man.
Roth went into another diatribe about censorship. I'm still not sure if he was for or against it and I'm not sure he knows either.
There were more incoherent monologues all done with the accompaniment of background music that would swell up anytime DLR said something that was supposed to be funny. Followed by brief interludes of music and the occasional interruption of two of his sidekicks, British Dude and Black Dude (My names not his, since neither of these gents were ever introduced to the audience)
And that's about it. The show was without value what so ever and I found myself looking forward to the commercials because they were more entertaining then the DLR stuff.
Roth is an incredibly talented rock singer whom I like a lot and I don't blame him for taking this gig but I do blame the industry clowns who thought that he would be a good replacement for Howard in a number of markets. Just what were they thinking?
Maybe they figured they didn't have a chance, so why not just throw a big name talent into the pool and see if they would get lucky with it. Either that or most of them had bought Sirius stock and saw this as a way of making the investment pay off.
Unless this become an Air America situation where the show is kept on the air just to make a point, I suspect that Roth's tenure will be short lived and we'll soon see someone else doing the morning show.
- Al
http://www.carnali.com<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ADC on 01/03/06 01:19 PM.</FONT></P>
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