Howard Stern moving to Satellite Radio

Atokal · Post by **Atokal** » October 6, 2004, 12:10 pm

Stern announced this morning that he has signed a 5 year deal with Sirius (satellite radio company) ending months of speculation. Stern believes it will spell the end for Clear Channel and all of their holdings.

Personally I say good for Howard, finding another medium to peddle his brand of radio. If I understand the technology it means an investment by listeners who wish to listen to his show.

discuss...

Post by **Sylvus** » October 6, 2004, 12:19 pm

What's the FCC involvement with satellite radio? Does he have the freedom to do whatever he wants?

My dad has it in his car and I believe that I have listened to totally uncensored rap stations on it. I'm all for less government censorship and more personal censorship. I say let him do whatever he wants.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · October 6, 2004, 12:21 pm

I think it's great, but he chose fucking Sirius. Sirius blows. XM has a far greater channel selection.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » October 6, 2004, 12:27 pm

I agree with Midnyte

Marb

Canoe · Post by **Canoe** » October 6, 2004, 12:31 pm

Sylvus wrote:What's the FCC involvement with satellite radio? Does he have the freedom to do whatever he wants?

The short answer is yes - the FCC has no control over satellite radio.

Very similar to an HBO setting - because the viewers (listeners in this case) pay for the product and it's not unconditionally broadcasted, the responsibility is on the listener to change the station if they don't like what's on it, or just not subscribe to it.

There may be extreme limitations, but I'm not aware of them.

The big FCC push in the past is that anyone could be listening to the station and hear what he was doing, where now "anyone" can't be listening to it. If it's kids listening to it, it's the parents responsibility to censor it (just like HBO - don't order it, or put a child lock on it, just like you can with satellite radio).

Truant · Post by **Truant** » October 6, 2004, 12:35 pm

Sylvus, FCC has no control over satellite. It has to do with the wording of the original legislation. Something to do with land based air wave transmitting, blah blah. It doesn't really make any sense, but as long as the signal is coming from sputniks they can broadcast whatever they want. I believe the fact that you cannot receive the broadcast without a subscription also helps that case.

As far as Sirius over XM. I would bet heavily there is some business dealings going on. As in, as part of this move Stern himself becomes a large shareholder in Sirius. His show alone will bring huge numbers of subscribers to their service, and I would also wager, they estimate to surpass XM. You see where I'm going here I hope.

My personal thoughts, I'm glad to hear it, and I guess it's time to go get a receiver and find out about the subscriptions.

edit, thanks canoe!

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » October 6, 2004, 12:36 pm

It's subscription so he can do whatever he wants. He probably didn't goto XM because Clear Channel owns some bigass percentage of it.. I forget the actual numbers but there was an article on it like 6 months ago.

Atokal · Post by **Atokal** » October 6, 2004, 12:39 pm

Canoe basically confirmed what Stern said today on his broadcast.
The FCC could at some point get involved but that would create a situation not unlike the USSR where all mediums including paid cable would be censured.

Stern believes as do I that the American people would not stand for FCC involvement in paid for services like HBO.

He stated that for the first time listeners will hear the Stern Show as it was meant to be heard. Kinda laughed when he said he could use the C word for the first time, juvenile and funny.

All this being said it might be time to invest in Sirius and related industries.

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » October 6, 2004, 1:03 pm

XM just signed the Opie and Andy show, whatever that is, and it is a premium service. I would guess Stern will be too since they tend to mimic XM. That would mean to get the Stern Channel you would have to pay 2 more dollars a month, in addition to the 12.00 they charge for the service.

As for hearing uncensored rap on XM, yep. You also have a uncensored comedy channel and some censored music channels like the Top 20 Channel.

I will be curious to see if they charge more. That is a fairly large investment for a Stern fan to make. 100 or so dollars for the receiver, 50 bucks for the car adapter and then 12 or 14 dollars a month.

I was a Stern listener until I got my XM and I honestly do not miss it, I have so many choices now. I guess we will see how dedicated his fans are. Although if he was on XM I might have checked it out.

Jarori Bloodletter · Post by **Jarori Bloodletter** » October 6, 2004, 1:26 pm

15 yrs Ive listined to Howard Stern, I will be there 15 more if he is.

ANd his mornign show isnt gonan be Premium

Neost · Post by **Neost** » October 6, 2004, 1:36 pm

I lean towards sirius primarily because of two reasons:

1. I get sirius satellite over my dish at home so I'm familiar with the stations.
2. The sirius recievers are less expensive and have FM rebroadcast so you can use any FM stereo radio to broadcast.

xZiBiT · Post by **xZiBiT** » October 6, 2004, 2:51 pm

Stragi wrote:It's subscription so he can do whatever he wants. He probably didn't goto XM because Clear Channel owns some bigass percentage of it.. I forget the actual numbers but there was an article on it like 6 months ago.

I do not remember any intranet postings through about Clear Channel buying a share of XM. I'm sure I would have seen something on the Delphi intranet about Clear Channel acquisitions. However, they do provide sports broadcasting for XM but honestly their are not many sporting events out there that are not broadcast by Clear Channel.

I prefer him going to XM just because its cheaper after my employee discount and yes XM does offer the Roady 2 which has a bulit in wireless FM receiver.

Even though I get the employee discount for the XM radio, I'm still not convinced that I paying $12/month to listen to the radio in my car is worth it.

Atokal · Post by **Atokal** » October 6, 2004, 3:23 pm

Sterns website is advertising XM.
???

Thess · Post by **Thess** » October 6, 2004, 3:31 pm

Atokal wrote:Sterns website is advertising XM.
???

Normally it rotates ads between Sirius and XM. I listen to Howard daily, I can not wait for him to not have to worry about his butchered show or language, it is going to be some great radio.

I've been thinking about getting sattelite radio for awhile. Mainly because I find it disgusting that you can go virtually anywhere in america and listen to basically the same top 20 songs of the song genre, without much diversion from that.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » October 6, 2004, 3:38 pm

I don't find it too much for them to try to censor a little bit of the early morning radio....there are a lot of kids that are going to be listening in that timeslot. Now there is zero reason to censor anything on a pay to listen satellite station, so it definitely benefits Stern in one regard. On the other hand, he will lose a metric shit ton of listeners and potential listeners because he is not on the public airwaves.

I listen to him on the way to work...and while it would not bother me one iota to have him be completely uncensored, I am also not going to pay $12 a month to listen to him say perverted things that will pop into my head anyway for free.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » October 6, 2004, 5:09 pm

we will be buying the satellite service eventually. we've talked about buying satellite even before this announcement, and i think stern is probably going to be what pushes us to do it.

like thess said, public radio stations pretty much suck unless you like listening to the same 10 songs on loop. i'll gladly pay $12 a month to listen to some variety. especially when uncensored stern is part of the deal.

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » October 6, 2004, 8:08 pm

I've been thinking about getting sattelite radio for awhile. Mainly because I find it disgusting that you can go virtually anywhere in america and listen to basically the same top 20 songs of the song genre, without much diversion from that

For your sanity do not listen to the Top 20 station then. My kids love it and they play the same 20-25 song over and over and rotate a few new songs in each week. If I hear that Maroon 5 song again I will go ballistic.

I am in sales in the Los Angeles area and sit a good 40% of my day in traffic. It is so nice to kick on the comedy channel and laugh, or listen to whatever type of music I want (80's punk and alternative station is great). I also get about 10 college football games every weekend, so if I am out on my honey-do projects I can listen still. You can also get the portable radio and play XM anywhere, or get the home adapter and hook it into your home stereo. XM rocks. I would guess Sirius does as well.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » October 6, 2004, 8:14 pm

Marbus wrote:I agree with Midnyte

Marb

Everyone should print this off and frame it to remember the day someone agreed with Mid.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » October 7, 2004, 2:04 am

Funnier than Howard: http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.jh ... _8136.html

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » October 7, 2004, 2:08 am

xZiBiT wrote:
Stragi wrote:It's subscription so he can do whatever he wants. He probably didn't goto XM because Clear Channel owns some bigass percentage of it.. I forget the actual numbers but there was an article on it like 6 months ago.
I do not remember any intranet postings through about Clear Channel buying a share of XM. I'm sure I would have seen something on the Delphi intranet about Clear Channel acquisitions. However, they do provide sports broadcasting for XM but honestly their are not many sporting events out there that are not broadcast by Clear Channel.

I prefer him going to XM just because its cheaper after my employee discount and yes XM does offer the Roady 2 which has a bulit in wireless FM receiver.

Even though I get the employee discount for the XM radio, I'm still not convinced that I paying $12/month to listen to the radio in my car is worth it.

Actually, was it mentioned in Farenheight 9/11?
That might be were I heard it...

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » October 7, 2004, 8:48 am

And because it was in that piece of shit fabrication is a GRAND reason to believe it.

xZiBiT · Post by **xZiBiT** » October 7, 2004, 1:19 pm

Stragi wrote: Actually, was it mentioned in Farenheight 9/11?
That might be were I heard it...

Not sure. I have never seen Farenheit 911. The good thing about election day is I get the day off to vote but I don't have to be bothered to go and cast mine because the Democrat always and forever will win Michigan.

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » October 7, 2004, 2:38 pm

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:And because it was in that piece of shit fabrication is a GRAND reason to believe it.

settle down fella, the political cattle wranglers aren't coming to steal this thread.

:/

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » October 7, 2004, 4:50 pm

I am happy that you did not flame me for use of a conjunction to start a sentence. But there is still time.

miir · Post by **miir** » October 7, 2004, 5:01 pm

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:I am happy that you did not flame me for use of a conjunction to start a sentence. But there is still time.

No, he didnt.

But I sure as hell will!!!

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » October 7, 2004, 5:31 pm

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:I am happy that you did not flame me for use of a conjunction to start a sentence. But there is still time.

I don't usually knock on people's grammar? If that's what you're insinuating!

CONJUNCTION JUNCTION WHAT'S YOUR FUNCTION?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses!
CONJUNCTION JUNCTION HOW'S THAT FUNCTION?
HEY YOU FAGGOT BITCH STOP STARTING SENTANCES WITH CONJUNCTIONS

xZiBiT · Post by **xZiBiT** » October 7, 2004, 5:45 pm

Stragi wrote: CONJUNCTION JUNCTION WHAT'S YOUR FUNCTION?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses!
CONJUNCTION JUNCTION HOW'S THAT FUNCTION?
HEY YOU FAGGOT BITCH STOP STARTING SENTANCES WITH CONJUNCTIONS

Oh shit, 1994 flashback, warren G style,

conjunction junction, whats my function
I'm hookin up tracks so that niggaz can function
its not Pete Rock or that nigga Dr. Dre
its this muthafuckin nigga from around the way