Shock Jock Stern Crosses Swords with FCC's Powell

yahoo.com ^ | October 26, 2004 | Jeremy Pelofsky

[perfect stranger]

Michael K. Powell

[wireman]

Yeah, him and a million other people whose fathers aren't famous ex-generals / secretaries of state.

C'mon.

[perfect stranger]

C'mon what? All I'm saying that he's earned it just as much as say Dale Earnhart Jr.

Jeez man, at least he chose another field. There was no free ride.

[wireman]

It's nepotism - pure and simple!

There are many people just as qualified who would never get in the door at the FCC.

What do you think is the difference?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Stern is like a soap opera. You can tune out for ten years and return to find some characters are new but the storyline is basically the same. He ran out of material many years ago. He survives because every year a new bunch of horny adolescents tune in just as the thirty somethings outgrow him. The material, however tired, is new to his "fluid" audience. BUT, I think he's getting too old to come off as cool to these young perverts much longer and will soon fade into oblivion where he belongs.

Yup, he's getting a bit stale. Another issue is visual. You can't see the interviewees' t*ts on satellite radio. The dialog, sans visuals, can be pretty boring.

[dead]

At the time of his appointment, both Democrats and Republicans were pursuing his father, who hadn't clearly stated what party he was going to continue in politics in.

He was heading a non-partisan foundation and it was obvious Clinton appointed his son to the position as a token to the father.

[wireman]

"He was heading a non-partisan foundation and it was obvious Clinton appointed his son to the position as a token to the father."

Sure. And anyone who pretends not to see that is delusional.

[perfect stranger]

"There are many people just as qualified who would never get in the door at the FCC."

Fine speculation...show me these people.

Good Grief Man. Michael Powell wasn't just sitting on his @@@ waiting for daddy to help him. I followed my Father into the same field and I wouldn't call it nepotism.

Can you define the line between "given" and "earned" for us?

[sharktrager]

Stern hasn't pushed boundaries in years. He's done the same show for years.

He will not suffer from the move in the least.

[perfect stranger]

Don't discount the idea. How many in his audience do you think would pay money to listen to him?

[dead]

His listeners aren't paying him $100,000,000 per year (including all the production costs of his shows). Sirius Radio is.

They estimate that they need 1,000,000 new subscribers to pay for it. I don't think that will be a problem really.

[Extremist]

Stern is absolutely stale. His sattelite promoters have no idea how lame he really is. His advertising in the Dallas market is "low rent" at best. I don't know how this jerk will go from broadcasting 20 minutes per hour, at most, to filling an entire program with no commercial enteruptions.

He can't do it. He's lame and everyone knows it.

[jrawk]

Yeah he was fined.

Fining syndicates is a new idea by this FCC.

With the ability to Packet Type and ID data over the air the FCC is quickly becomming a meaningless Beauracracy that is now struggling to survive. The public resource of the airwaves is quickly becomming a limitless resource not a shared public resource it once was that needs the regulation of the feds. There recent measures and actions are no more than efforts to find a problem to solve. Just wait until they propose controlling pay to view/listen content... oh wait they already have. Powell would do himself well by setting out the elegant steps to the end of the FCC rather than engage in these Death Throws Antics.

One thing you can trust in though is you can never kill a beauracracy.

-- lates
-- jrawk

[Extremist]

enteruptions.

Should have proofed but didn't. I oughta work for 60 Minutes.

[perfect stranger]

Considering 1 million new subscribers to cover a 100 million dollar contract it sounds like a loser but there are many more factors to think about as well like advertising, and the market behind the idea of pay radio.

[SunnySide]

Sterns - tired old radio jock who hasn't had a fresh idea in 20 years ........... or hair style. Stern YOUR hair is NASTY! Enough there to house a welfare project of rats. Sterns rat nest hair

[wireman]

I'm sorry Mr. Powell. I didn't realize it was you.

[JessieHelmsJr]

[wireman]

Oh behave!

[perfect stranger]

"Fining syndicates is a new idea by this FCC."

Which FCC? Is there a new one? They've never been fined before or no rules were broken before? One would make it seem that they had never enforced the laws until "this FCC"?