After Being Yanked by Clear Channel, Howard Stern Predicts His Broadcast Demise

AP ^ | Mar. 6, 2004

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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

[Feiny]

Nice try Dane. I guess you support a government dictating what is OK for you to listen to.....I can't wait for you to support this action when it is President Hillary.

[CWOJackson]

Is he one of the regular chronic Bush haters here at FR?

[breakem]

many here don't give a damn about free speech, they're too busy fighting the culture war. If you're on the wrong side you don't have any rights. We only like the bill of rights if we're talking about the second amendment, donchano! And of course if you bring it up, you're a liberal troll.

[Zechariah11]

Join a circus freak show, Howard.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Sure...I'll bite. Yes, I would. I would also support your right to buy technology to block those channels as I would support your right to block porn on the equally accessible internet. Some of us don't trust the government to be a surrogate parent.

[Dane]

Nice try Dane. I guess you support a government dictating what is OK for you to listen to.....I can't wait for you to support this action when it is President Hillary

I will fight in the electoral arena to defeat Hillary. Anyway nothing is stopping Howard to be on satellite radio, and IMO, there is a big difference between Rush and Howard.

I can't help it if you can't see the differences between the two.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Thank you, Janet! I bet she's sorry now. She may not have been immediately sorry after her stunt, but look at what she set in motion. Howard Stern should blame her, not the religious right. No one else had the power to take him off the air - not the groups that have been screaming about him for years - no one - until Janet. Her one bold move did it. It put people over the edge. And it had nothing to do with the religious right.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Right now, there is parent control technology that you can purchase to block any radio station or T.V. station. That is your job. As to streetcorners, could you please name a privately owned streetcorner that allows Stern or anyone else to shout vulgarities.

Are you the parent of your children or is the government their parent? Take some responsiblity, rather than destroy my first amendment rights.

[Dane]

Is he one of the regular chronic Bush haters here at FR?

I don't think so, but, IMO, he does fit their political mold.

Anyway he's to busy oogling bimbos and someone would have to tell him that he has to use the word statist, as every other word while he oogles the bimbos. Then he will be a member of the club.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Agreed. Again, it seems that these folks are just too lazy to parent control technology to blog the "public" stations they hate.

[Feiny]

It is you who can't see the light due to your dislike of Stern. When you allow the government to make your decisions for you, you are no longer a citizen but a subject....and subject to the whims of whoever you allow to control you. Please wake up.

[kms61]

Exactly. I don't like Stern, but this crap is ridiculous.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

A few years ago late one Saturday night, I turned the TV on for the last time. To me Saturday Night Live was death wamed over, so I flicked through the channels and came upon Stearn's TV version of his radio program. It was lurid. It was comletely devoid of any art. It was more boring than SNL. Strearn should have been jailed for taking time on the airwaves with completely inept artwork.

[freepatriot32]

AG Ashcroft needs to attack the cable companies for bundling their product, just as MicroSoft and IBM were hit for bundling their product.

nope sorry not going to happen he is waaaaay to busy going after glass tubes and wooden dugouts to be conserned with that plus right now he is way to high on narcotic painkillers supplied by doctors he will prosocute as soon as he is out of the hospital

[Austin Willard Wright]

Why not put parent controls on your T.V. so you won't be "forced" to watch it when you flip the channels? Why do you need big brother to do it for you?

[sharktrager]

And, right now, there are libs saying they can't understand why a guy like Stern is fined while a guy like Rush can spew hate.

"I disagree with what you say, but will defend to my death your right to say it."

[Dane]

It is you who can't see the light due to your dislike of Stern. When you allow the government to make your decisions for you, you are no longer a citizen but a subject....and subject to the whims of whoever you allow to control you. Please wake up

Sheesh, excuse me but I don't find Howard being taken off 6 radio stations as some Constitutional crisis or the end of the world.

Also Howard's prancing around as "the" protector of free speech I find mildly amusing.

[Dane]

"I disagree with what you say, but will defend to my death your right to say it."

A quote from Voltaire. A person in history Howard never heard of, or could care less about.

[HitmanLV]

That makes two of us. I have been predicting Howard's radio demise since Alison left him. He has never been the same since.

He is angrier, with a much shorter fuse. She and his family life was the center of his existence, and when she left him, all it left was the radio show. He can have a trophy galpal if he wants, but he clearly loves Alison and a big part of him died when she split.

[TalBlack]

"This time they have to fire me," Stern said. "I'm through. I'm a dead man walking."

It's worse than that Howard. As I understand it your daughters are ASHAMED of you.

Though maybe if you're out of work you can turn that around.