I'm just curious how many guys on this board listen to Howard Stern in the morning? I have for the last 10 years or so and I'm concerned about losing him in the morning. The FCC has been cracking down not only on HS, but on other controversial radio and TV personalities since Janet exposed herself at the Superbowl. Its more than just Howard or Bubba the Love Sponge(who I happen to think is lousy) Its about freedom of speach and expression. If you don't like whats on, change the channel. I personally don't get offended by anything, and everyone has their own tolerance for certain things. When you hit your limit, change the channel. These people that are imposing fines and trying to get the best broadcasters off the air and TV are probably the same ones that want to crush all the old cars. I haven't researched this, but these people need to get a life. It seems the world is going backward lately, not forward. In Europe nudity is commonplace. Tune into the spanish cable station and that is almost as good as r rated. We need some change in this country, people need to stop trying to run our lives. What do you guys think about this subject? Bob
I agree with you Bob... In fact, a funny thing - I've been noticing a lot of "choice" words in songs have gone unedited lately since Janet's exposure./....which doesn't jive with what the FCC is trying to do right now. Take a look at the FCC's goals at its inception compared to its current mission. The same people that were preserving our rights, are now trying to take them away. Uh oh, I hope I didn't start a "freedom of speech" debate. It's all Bob's fault!!:laugh:
I'd like to see a list of the Politicians with DUI arrests........ They want to protect us from foul language,But if they kill you while driving drunk,then what?HYPOCRITE'S!!!! I've been listening to Howard Stern for over 10 years.....I would definately miss the laughs in the Morning.....Hopefully it won't come to this. It really is that easy,If you don't like it,DON'T LISTEN!!!!!!
I listen to Howard Stern in the mornings when i wake up. Of course that for the time when i wake up for 10-15 seconds between alarm beeps. I listen when i get ready which is probably a total of about 20 minutes. I think it's rediculous what they are doing. Just the other day on arrested development on Fox, I heard the word Deutschebag. NO idea how to spell it. that surprised me, but i wasnt offended. If you dont like it, change the station. jeez...not that hard
I have been listening to Howard since he came on in Chicago 5 or 6 years ago. Also been listening to Steve Dahl since Detroit in 1977. You could say Steve did Howards show before Howard did Howards show. The big problem with the FCC right now is its bowing to the administrations right wing religious agenda. It was only a matter of time, not Janets Boob, until they started to come down on eclectic entertainment sources. Wht really scares me is that Clear Channel (a big RNC fund raiser), who took HS off the air on 6 stations they owned, did not do so for any indecent programing, but for the fact that Howard had started some weeks earlier telling listeners to vote Bush out of office in November. Now they wont honor the contract they have with Infifty and Pay Howard the money he is entitled too. Scumbags. This is a scary time for basic rights in our country, and this mess I fear is just the tip of the iceberg. D.
We lost Howard in Austin TX about 5 yrs ago. I miss him. I heard something about him being picked up by one of the satelite radio providers (XM Sirius) if thats so I will buy one just to have my Howard fix back. E channel just doesnt cut it. I am smart enough to change the channel when I am offended. I dont need to be legislated in to doing this. I have stopped buying CDs at walmart for same reason. If that artist wants to say a four letter word in his song its not walmarts place to censor him. My .02 Linda
GARY How about the South Dakota senator that ran a stop sign at 70 mph and killed a man on his motorcycle that did not have a stop sign in rural area. He was convicted and got 100 days in prison and would not do any community service to get reduced time and APPEALED the sentence. If the family sues him for wrongful death the STATE (taxpayers) have to pay since he was considered working. He had several speeding tickets it the past. A lady reported a couple a years ago he blew through the same sign and almost hit her but she hit the brakes. In court they could not use any of the old tickets to show he was a high risk and reckless driver. For the people by the people.ou: :af:
I remember first hearing about him and how his show was supposed to be. When I finally listened, I was a bit disappointed. He was entertaining, but to me, didn't seem all that racey. Had he been more racey (and still entertaining) I might have listened. He didn't offend me, but he didn't grab my attention either (I'm more into music than talk). Although I don't listen to him, I think the FCC is being silly. He's well-known enough that people should know to tune past him if they are easily offended. What about the children? Well, we didn't have this kind of radio when I was a kid, nor did they fine elementary school students for telling dirty jokes or gossiping... I wonder when that will change? (For the sarcasm impaired: We were worse on the Catholic school playground than Stern is on the radio. We came up with it ourselves, with no media influence - go figure.)
My mornings are much longer now that I can't listen to Howard Stern. I think it is just like my union. It is mainly the older ( at least 28 years of service ) employees that are in office so they go along with the older crowd. If the US had younger people in control of the FCC and most public offices there would not be so much censorship of the air ways. I have to agree with the reasonable people. If you don't like it turn the dial. It does make you wonder..........Why do the people that don't like it/ want it off the air seem to know what he talks about on his show. I have also wondered about the price of Clear waters stock when howard Stern was pulled from the air (in some places for good). If I had it, it would be sold. just my $.02 worth
Good point. Sort of like the "backward message" days when "preachers" (among others) pointed out all those supposed messages. A Baptist friend of mine asked if these people had nothing better to do than buy scores of rock albums and listen to them backward.
Yeah, we lost Howard on all the Clear Channel stations down here in Florida a few weeks back. Too "offensive". So they replaced him with the "monsters of the midday". First time I tune in they play a songa bout beating up all the faggots at Disneyworld. Second day they play a song about how dumb it is to apologize to blacks about slavery, how we used to own them, grow soime cotton in your yards and we'll pick it for you, etc. etc. (Note: I think the slavery reparations thing is complete idiocy, but the song was, shall we say, a little insensitive) Third time I tune in its all about boob jobs. Huh? Clear Channel's basic policy is "If you haven't been fined yet, that's good enough." Real impressive. -- Steve
no more stern for me either. youd think that in the bigger markets and stations you wouldnt loose him. im in san diego and about a month ago he got booted off the air. i really hope satallite radio will pick him up. it does make the mornings go a lot faster. i just cant see why if people dont like it or if theyre offended by something, change the station!!! if theres food i dont like, i dont eat it... if theres a tv show i dont like... i dont watch it... its getting worse out there by the day. damn janet jackson and her 40 something year old boob!!! :blast: ( . )( . ) (i hope i dont get fined by the fcc for that):grin: pete
i wonder how many listeners clear channel has lost or how bad the shows ratings fell off. its gotta be hurting both pretty bad. id bet clear channel has the worst of it though!?!?!
Don't care for him much myself. He had a short run here on the radio in the Twin Cities back in '97. He died a miserable death in the ratings, and the station dropped him. Couldn't compete against the local 900 pound gorilla known as the KQRS morning show.
Stern and the FCC I do not particurally enjoy Sterns program, but the FCC has no right to do what they are doing. If Stern is obscene, then a court should decide that, not some appointed people at the FCC. I think this type of "strong-arm" censorship may cost President Bush the election. Stern deserves his day in cout, the same as all Americans! Larry (71 GS Stage 1)
We've never had him on local radio here, but I would check out the tv show once in a great while. It didn't do much for me, so I never made a point of watching for it. It was a late night airing, wasn't it?
Used to listen to HS here in Michigan. He went away about a year ago (went AM I think - I never spent the time to track him down). That show is kind of like the "reality" tv - you get hooked, wondering what will happen next. It's not really all that funny, just a freak show really. You'd have to be kind of naive to take any of it seriously. As far as the squawking about "free speach", I think that Stern is right up there with Larry Flynt - willing to do anything for attention, and by extension, to make a buck. I think the media consolidations and "synergy" are more of a threat to freedom to say or listen to what you want than the FCC ever will be.
Some thought that the covering of statue in the Attorney General's office was glimpse of what was to come. Guess they were right.
you guys probably won't believe this... I listen to Howard just about every morning. I'm about as right wing as it gets, politically (bet you couldn't have guessed that from some of my other posts, haha). When he offends me, I turn the station. When he is at his funniest, you can't help but laugh. No, I don't agree with him on just about everything, but I think the cure is worse than the disease. Who decides what's alright or not? That, and they are not enforcing the rules evenly. If I trusted the government to judge evenly in all situations... well, that will never happen!
I've been listening to Stern since about 1980. He's really no worse than he ever was in my opinion. He's into breasts, smut, flatulence and anything that makes the "normal" person uncomfortable in real life situations. It's been alright for 25 years, but all of the sudden it's not alright? uzzled: Listen, I'll be the FIRST one to admit that this country's morals have gone to hell in a handbasket and I also believe firmly that the airwaves need to have "some" set of guidelines on what is going to be deemed acceptable to broadcast. Otherwise, you can use the freedom of speech thing to justify the "I love Nazi's" channel. That said, political correctness has no place in my life. Things should be called what they are. This all goes back to the Janet Jackson incident which opened this whole pandoras box and embarrassed the hell out of the FCC. The FCC doesn't like to get embarrassed. That "also" said, the FCC should be playing this game a little more evenly. If Howard Stern is no good, then neither is all the gangsta rap with glorification of murder and drugs. I no longer need to rent porno flicks either. I can just turn on MTV or "BET", the Black Entertainment Network. Things have gone out of control. Squelching Howard Stern is just sending a message. The FCC has wanted him off the air forever and what better excuse or set of circumstances to use than these? He's paying the price for stuff that they have been unable to prosecute for up until this time. I love freedom of speech, but too much freedom of speech can degrade a society too. It needs to be controlled or it can and will get WAY out of hand. Since giving people free reign of "freedom" of speech would enable them to be completely irresponsible, there is no other choice but to set "some" standards. I don't see it as a bad thing at all.......if it's done accross the board. Next they need to clean up all the "reality" (reality in whose life I often wonder?) porno shows which have become the standard of normalcy for our youths viewing pleasure. Sorry, the "just turn the channel" thing only goes so far. All that does is obsolve everyone of responsible broadcasting parameters by saying "I have a choice to listen or not." Of course I do, but kids watch TV and listen to radio without parents watching all the time, even GOOD parents can't keep their kids in a plastic bubble all day long. They shouldn't have to either. The kids will have PLENTY of time to figure all this smut for themselves. They don't need to be reading Heather has Two Mommies in the 4th grade. There's NO NEED for it. Learning to spell at that age would do just fine! :blast:
