Stern Interrupts Replacement Announcement

Breitbart ^ | 10/25/05 | Larry McShane

[Callahan]

Stern has plenty of detractors on FR, but I think I discerned part of his appeal. I would love to have a retarded, pin-head dwarf to join an office conference call in my stead. Finally, someone upper management can relate to.

[drew]

The man himself.

[drew]

Oops, meant to put a picture in.

[RichInOC]

:-D )))

I'm kind of sorry David Lee Roth isn't going to be on KLSX. Nothing against Adam Carolla, I like Carolla, but I think Diamond Dave and Los Angeles go together like...well, like Diamond Dave and strippers.

[Callahan]

He's the Barak Obama of retarded dwarves.

[infidel29]

Stern is making a huge mistake leaving broadcast radio. Let me clarify, aside from the hundreds of millions of dollars he's been advanced, his career as a radio personality will suffer. He goes from entertaining millions on a daily basis he goes to entertaining thousands with satellite radio. So he can say the "F" word and tell d**k jokes, 1/10th of his audience will get to hear it.

If Howard farts on satellite and no one is around to hear it, does it still smell as bad?

[theDentist]

It's a sad example of our present crudeness as a nation when you have to hear a CEO publicly state, "Infinity will have no 24-hour channels of farting."

[Callahan]

I'm not surprised at all. At this point, he's done pretty much all you can do in broadcast radio (both industry and decency wise). The freedom to have fun doing his job is likely more important to him than other considerations. It's not like he needs the money. I think satellite radio will be successful anyway. He's not the only thing on Sirius.

[Callahan]

And another thing. It's kind of lame that Infinity is now advertising it's stations as "free radio." The mere fact that they feel the need to point that out tells me they are a little worried.

[Callahan]

Howard was talking about giving one whole channel to this alcoholic stroke-victim guy named "Jeff the Drunk" who is famous for not being able to stay awake on the phone. It's all a joke to Stern.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Stern is 51 years old. His spanking strippers schtick is getting creepy and he's having to surround himself with more and more people to make the show funny and work.

I hear him in the morning on the way to work. I do think some of his stuff is absolutely hilarious. But these days, its getting more rare and many times, he can go for hours without anything really entertaining happening.

His deal with Sirius is absolutely ridiculous. 100 million a year and advertisements have to be held to a minimum??
There is no way this will ever be a profitable venture for Sirius. The Sirius people who made the deal are retards. THey are spending other people's money like its the dot.com days.

But I do think that Stern has been getting repeatidly hosed by infinity and clear channel all through their deal with him considering the money he generates for them. Radio these days is a mess. Majority of stations are owned by a few corporations and there is soo much censorship and agendas involved. Half the airtime is advertising and the disk jockeys dont even pick the songs they play. Its all pre-programmed ahead of time and don't even get me started on the dirty relationship between radio station companies and the music labels who pay stations and disk jockeys to play the songs they are pushing. Yes, there has always been record labels working deals with stations, I know. But its never been on the level it has now because they are all owned by the same companies and parent companies now.
This has created the trainwreck that the music industry is these days. There is no concept of what the public wants to hear anymore. Everything is done from a marketing perspective, not a musical perspective.

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Stern boasted an audience of about 12 million and revenues of about $100 million from his morning FM show...Hollander declined to discuss how much Stern's defection would cost Infinity in revenue

Pretty close to all of it, though David Lee Roth's mother may listen now and then.

[infidel29]

True, I'd imagine the freedom is paramount to him. Although Howard has always shown (to me at least) the need to be liked, loved, admired, slice it how you like. It was a prevailing theme of his movie "Private Parts" I'll bet he misses the large audience more than he'll admit.

[infidel29]

I listen to radio at work, Quinn until 9am, ESPN national show 'til 10, ESPN local show 'til 1PM, then Rush on the way home. I'll throw in a cassette if sports is stuck on Basketball for too long.

I haven't listened to Stern for years.

[gaijin]

I'll throw in a cassette

What's a casette?

[drew]

There he is!

[Revel]

Good riddance to him. He is probably the greatest evil talk radio has ever known.

[garbanzo]

Does anyone know anything about this "Rover" dude? Apparently we drew one of the short straws and got him come 1/3/06. Was at Best Buy today looking at the Sirius receivers.

[TopQuark]

Adam Carolla

Garbage replaces garbage. A terrific deal.

[Senator Goldwater]

"Stern is making a huge mistake leaving broadcast radio"

Exactly.

I love Howard. I go all the way back to when he was on DC-101 in the very early eighties and discovered Robin Quivers, who was his news reader.

While Satellite will reduce his audience dramatically, something far worse will happen: he'll lose his edge. Much of Howard's appeal is that he has been doing his show all these years over the commercial airwaves. This is why his radio show always outshown his private videos and forays into pay-per-view.

Once he is free to say whatever he wants, it won't really matter because no envelope is being pushed.

Result? Boredom.