Howard Stern bids farewell to free radio.

kickycan
I agree with you. I think Howard took Syrius radio to the cleaners to the tune of a half billion dollars or so. They'll never recoup that from Howard listeners alone....??? I also agree that satellite radio will never be as big as "regular" radio.......IMO

Yeah, I think he made a ton of money and figured he'd give it a shot. I wonder if he even thinks he can bring satellite radio to profitability. I'd do the same thing if I were him though. Why not get paid millions to take a chance doing something you want to do?

Of course, he has beaten the odds before, so I don't know if we should totally count him out yet.

Kicky, please edit those long URLs .they stretch the screen and make it hard toread
In DC and Philly he dropped to no 3 when he constantly
was bashing his existing station. People just tuned out.

I was a fan when he was doing his ka ka humor and dum tricks
and Robins news. When he began his
satellite commercial of 9 months length, I moved over to WBAL (orwherever I was at any non-Stern show)

STERN IS NOT FUNNY, the situations that he
promotes and fosters are. He is surrounded by funny people (some purposely so and others just "challenged")
The fact that we laugh at stutterers and guys with rectal hematomas, is more about us.
He represents the lowest common denominator of humor and Ill listen in.
Im not going to spend money on any satellite radio unless it comes with a new vehicle.
If satellite radio sponsors "segmented" niches like
Books on satellite or Science shows, or venues like cable tv, Im not going to cross the street for it. I would join XM or Sirius if they worked out a deal with Books on tape with a hard drive in the reciever so that we could do an "on demand" book, then Id think favorably about it.
Stern has taken credit for radio breakthroughs like the rooster taking credit for the daylight.
HEs been super at self promotion and I liked his "celebrity fights" that he picked carefully.
I listened in yesterday when Jackie Martling was in. Now if Tom Ciassano had his head on right, hed hire Martling to sit in with "Diamond Dave", cause Martling energized the show yesterday like nobody has in the years since he left.
Just my view

If I was KRock, I woulda fired his ass the day he signed with Sirius. That woulda derailed his 9 month "commercial" for EhEhEh. As it was, he became the morning drive equivalent of TV wrestling, or Saturday morning kids TV, it was a baldface commercial for
his new enterprise. I almost think that KRock was in on it

It's not the end of his reign. Opie and Anthony have a show on satellite radio, and sounds like they're doing fine with it.

Satellite still has a lot of subscribers, and I'm sure this will be one part of it getting bigger.

I don't think anyone's ever claimed Stern himself is hilarious. At least not stand-up material.

But he's put together some crazy things...for example buying his freaks front row seats behind home plate at a Yankee game so they'd be on TV the whole time. Putting together game shows to see which ugly virgin gets to bang a porn star.

And he's got some good interviews. Guy will have Jay-Z on one day, a porn star the next, then Richard Simmons.

I wish "Who cares?" could've one of the poll options.

I was visiting NY years ago when Stern was still a local phenomenon (I think). My sister played him while we rode in her car. She thought he was a riot; I thought he was tasteless and juvenile.

I guess we were both right...

i for one will miss him, sirrius canada has no plans at present to carry the show, but if they did i'd subscribe

will he be successful, hard to say, if you like his brand of humour there are many guys on regular radio who do the howard stern show, but then that's the problem, they're not howard stern

i for one won't be listening to the guy who's replacing the slot in detroit, and i certainly wouldn't listen to david lee roth if that was an option

Farmerman, thanks for mentioning David Lee Roth, who will now be the main guy on K-Rock. I listened to him one week when he was a fill-in for someone, and he was so damn good! He was made for talk radio. I tell ya, it was the only time I've ever actually wanted the songs to end so I could hear the DJ. Diamond Dave has serious charisma, and amazing off the cuff bullshit-spewing ability.

I bought my Sirius satellite radio because he was going to be on it. I never particularly listened to him when I lived in Portland where I could pick him up. But now that I live in Boise where you get nothing but Christian radio and Bill O' Riley I find it a refreshing addition to satellite radio. Face it, as the FCC clamps down harder and harder on the airwaves it is getting more and more boring to listen to anything. I think premium radio is the way to go and Howard is pioneering new territory. It may take a while for him to pull in the listeners that he used to. It's just like what happened with Television in the 70's. Cable companies started to pop up and now hardly anybody gets their television off the air. Most people pay for a premium service that is FCC free. Same thing is starting to happen with radio. We just haven't had the technology until now because since most people listen to the radio in their cars, it wasn't easy to hook up a cable to your car and drive to work.

Howard's the man! I will add that I despise Clearchannel. Even though many of the AirAmerica radio stations are Clearchannel stations. I've never heard a music station of theirs that I liked. The bigger they get the worse radio gets in America. And that's good for satellite. I have both XM and Sirius and I'll never listen to the airwaves in Boise again!