Posted on 03/06/2004 11:25:54 AM PST by nuconvert
After Being Yanked by Clear Channel, Howard Stern Predicts His Broadcast Demise
Mar 6, 2004
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Shock jock and self-proclaimed "King of All Media" Howard Stern believes his reign on the radio is coming to an end. "The show is over," he announced Friday morning on his nationally syndicated radio program. "It's over."
It's not - at least not yet. But Stern predicted that a Federal Communications Communication crackdown on indecency on the airwaves will force his salacious show off the dial.
"I'm guessing that sometime next week will be my last show on this station," said Stern, adding that he expected the FCC to hit him with a whopping indecency fine. "There's a cultural war going on. The religious right is winning. We're losing."
A telephone call to Infinity Broadcasting, which syndicates Stern's show, was not returned Saturday to discuss Stern's comments.
On Friday, Stern devoted the first 2 1/2 hours of his show to his anticipated demise, a change of pace from the usual fare of naked women and toilet humor.
Clear Channel Communications yanked Stern from stations in San Diego, Pittsburgh, Rochester, N.Y., Louisville, Ky., and Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 25. The company said the suspension would last until the Stern show met its programming guidelines.
"This time they have to fire me," Stern said. "I'm through. I'm a dead man walking."
On Thursday, Clear Channel paid a record $755,000 fine levied last month by the FCC for indecent material aired by several of its stations
Do you libertarians, anything-goes type have problems with porno run on the Cartoon Network? Or graphic front page pictures of fornication ok with you?
Cut the bull-sh*t -- our government has ALWAYS enforced "decency" standards through censorship and obscenity laws. The excremement has FINALLY hit the fan and a line was drawn -- too effin bad. You can always get your kicks and "free speech" though the internet.
True...
And the day the U.S. government shut down Rush on some obscure technicallly under the guise of "hate speech" is the day Civil War II has begun.
It won't happen - as long as the shops are open and the sun is shining, people will go about their day. Even if they, at that point it'd be too late to do anything. For example, if they could shut down Rush, Free Republic would be nothing more than target practice.
Above ground things may appear to be "business as usual," but I would imagine the anticipated mobilization would immediately begin gurgling below ground and online. It becomes clearer why the government is plotting the total regulation of the internet these days.
Free Republic would indeed become a ghost town that same day Rush is taken out -- only though to fragment into a bunch of mini-versions...We can assume some strange days are on the way.
Its for the children...
You got that right!
The people who think that there's a constitutional right to talk dirty every day without ever getting their show cancelled. Never mind that Stern cackled over gay activists getting Dr. Laura's TV show shut down, and I don't remember him being upset about her right to free speech.
I gotta say that Stern's martyr act is wearing really thin. And some freepers still claim he's really a conservative at heart!
You must be referring to the freepers who also claim they're the only TRUE conservatives at FR.
Did you agree with Howard when he said that "Bush hasn't done anything to make America safer," when Stern's claimed for the past 2 1/2 years that Bush has done just that?
Because you yourself said that Howard's comments had convinced you to change from being a Republican to an independent. I'm just pointing out that Howard Stern is not exactly the political sage of all time (or even a consistent one), and he is perfectly willing to backtrack on 2 1/2 years of supporting the president on the WOT because of Stern's own petulance. Listening to Howard's advice on politics is about as worthwhile as voting for somebody because the Dixie Chicks tell you to.
Lol -- what phony outrage --who are you BS'ing?? As though you were EVER a Republican in the first place??...
But btw, "morally," what do you get with the Democratic Party?
Speaking of the "sake of the children" -- is it the "right" to murder unborn babies? The "right" to marry your same-sex "partner," German Shepherd, or hand-puppet? The "freedom" to screw like a couple of dogs in public park? That's a Democrat's idea of "enlightenment."
You people are amusing. Go find yourtself a life in Amsterdam -- they're far less uptight about "morals" there.
Wasn't it only clear channel that decided not to air his show? That's a lot different from the government telling him he can't go on.
Amsterdam. No thanks. The control freaks should go there since, after all, it is a city where the government protects and subsidizes people from cradle and grave. I, on the other hand, believe in the American dream of freedom and responsibility. The two stand and fall together.
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