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If Clear Channel signed Stern...

As far as I am concerned, Howard Stern is a national disgrace,
regardless of the means of transmission used. Lame sex
jokes every 11.2 seconds are not clever - never have been,
never will be. The broadcast world is far better off
without his "talent" (or lack thereof....) Good riddance.
 
WLYNgm said:
As far as I am concerned, Howard Stern is a national disgrace,
regardless of the means of transmission used. Lame sex
jokes every 11.2 seconds are not clever - never have been,
never will be. The broadcast world is far better off
without his "talent" (or lack thereof....) Good riddance.
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Amen
Besides the days of shock jock/shocking listeners are behind us. Been there, done that.
Lap dances with Howard got old years ago.
 
WLYNgm said:
As far as I am concerned, Howard Stern is a national disgrace,
regardless of the means of transmission used.
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No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. I think Barnum said that many years ago, and it's still very true today.
 
CTListener said:
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. I think Barnum said that many years ago, and it's still very true today.
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However, playing to that taste is what made Barnum a rich man.

And why we know his name today.

Moral: Hold your nose and count the money.
 
I will have to agree with WLYN GM,

IMHO it is a virtual tie as to what brought radio to the sad state it is today, de-regulation/consolidation, and Howard Stern.

They worked hand in hand to reduce radio to the lowest common denominator, gutter humor that appealed to people with double digit IQ's who would blindly pledge their allegiance to Howard, or what ever other "show" that would buy their loyalty with a bumper sticker and flatulence humor.

O&A's " Sex for Sam (IV ?) was brilliant radio don't you think.

Personally I hope he drops the rest of the way off the radar never to return, along with the rest of the shock jocks, morning Zoo's, and assorted other fecal matter that passes for entertainment these days.
 
MRBIboredop said:
O&A's " Sex for Sam (IV ?) was brilliant radio don't you think...
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It was their third version of this contest that had led to the cancellation of their syndicated afternoon show... They never did do a fourth go-round - unless there was a recent contest on their satellite program that I was not aware of...
 
I don't get. Clear Channel lays off thousands of people last year, and they're still heavily in debt. Yet, John Hogan states that Clear Channel has the financial resources to pay Howard?.... What a tool! Hogan really IS an idiot.

Personally, I hope Howard stays at Sirius. A CC friendly verson of his show would just be plain horrible.
 
I haven't read the entire thread, so forgive me if I say something someone else says. First off, there is NO way CC would put howard on 1200. He was done with AM for good when they fired him from WNBC in 1985. As it is, his are the only channels on sirius in stereo. Second: he is not going back to terrestrial. No way no how. The industry tuned its back on him like a jelous ex girlfriend as soon as he jumped ship. After 5 years of experimental, short, dysfunctional relationships with awful replacements, they are finally realizing that they made a mistake letting him go. I think he'll end up working out a deal with sirius where he does a few shows a week, or moves the show a little later in the day.
 
ImTheDude said:
The industry tuned its back on him like a jelous ex girlfriend as soon as he jumped ship. After 5 years of experimental, short, dysfunctional relationships with awful replacements, they are finally realizing that they made a mistake letting him go.
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No one "let him go" and no one "turned its back." Howard did what he wanted, and that was the end of that story. At the end of this year, once again Howard will do whatever he wants.
 
Howard's audience is growing up, and no longer needs Howard's waste-of-spectrum locker-room-humor schtick. In fact, no one really needs it at all. Howard will be a total has-been if he stays on satellite. - He does, however, has the intelligence and wit to be one of the best left-wing terrestrial radio talk show hosts ever. A change to such will be the only thing that will save his arse from soon-to-be has-been status.
 
He does, however, has the intelligence and wit to be one of the best left-wing terrestrial radio talk show hosts ever.
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Good thing there's a whole radio network devoted to providing shows just like that! Oops. ::)

Come to think of it, if Howard decided to do a left-wing talk radio show for NPR (or in a non-commercial compatible style) I'd put that on WEOS. I agree with you, Howard is both smart and creative, and he's a frickin' genius at getting callers to say exactly what he wants them to say. No doubt he's got the ability to run a really solid progressive talk show. I'm sure NPR (and PRI and APM) would all balk at the idea; thinking he's a little too "beyond the pale" for a "serious" news organization. But it'd be hard to argue with the audience he'd bring with him. Even if 80% of them tune out after one show because he's wouldn't be making fart and lesbian jokes anymore...that's still over a million new listeners to NPR. It would probably go a long way to meeting the goals set out in the recent Grow the Audience report.
 
aaronread said:
I'm sure NPR (and PRI and APM) would all balk at the idea; thinking he's a little too "beyond the pale" for a "serious" news organization.
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I don't think that's the reason. As a generalization, NPR tends to stay away from well-known people as hosts. I'm sure they could have hired any of the Air America people, or Bill Maher, or someone from the Daily Show, or any of the well-read and well-known writers at the New York Times. But that's not what they do. They draw mainly from their own home-grown group of people, either within NPR or one of their stations. A few years ago, they launched a bunch of new shows, and chose people like John Hockenberry and Alex Chadwick to host. And then wondered why they didn't appeal to people under 30.

So no, NPR won't be hiring Howard Stern or any of the thousands of out-of-work commercial talents available to them.
 
Will said:
Then they can stop begging for money. You want to hire boring people who can't do radio, don't ask me for a donation.
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You don't want to hear begging? Tune to another station. I'm sure they won't miss you.
 
WLYNgm said:
As far as I am concerned, Howard Stern is a national disgrace...... The broadcast world is far better off
without his "talent" (or lack thereof....) Good riddance.
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Know what's even worse? Brokered time.
 
WLYNgm said:
As far as I am concerned, Howard Stern is a national disgrace,
regardless of the means of transmission used. Lame sex
jokes every 11.2 seconds are not clever - never have been,
never will be. The broadcast world is far better off
without his "talent" (or lack thereof....) Good riddance.
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You might be one of those people who has listened to the show for 10 minutes and now basis your entire opinion on that. Even worse... you may be one of those people who has NEVER listened, but just base your opinion on what you've read or what you've heard other people say. From my experience most people who don't like Stern have never even LISTENED TO THE SHOW.


Try listemimg for more than a fe minutes and you will see that the shpow is about much more than that.
 
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