Howard Stern Dumped!


Howard Stern Dropped After FCC Threat
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By JONATHAN D. SALANT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators Thursday proposed $495,000 in indecency fines against Clear Channel Communications for broadcasts by Howard Stern, prompting the nation's largest radio chain to drop the country's best-known shock jock.


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Clear Channel suspended Stern in February from its six stations that carry his program, which regularly features graphic sexual discussion and humor. It decided to make the move permanent after the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) cited the chain for 18 alleged violations from Stern's April 9, 2003, show.


"Mr. Stern's show has created a great liability for us and other broadcasters who air it," said John Hogan, president of Clear Channel Radio. "The Congress and the FCC (news - web sites) are even beginning to look at revoking station licenses. That's a risk we're just not willing to take."


In a statement posted on his Web site, Stern said he was not surprised by the fine. He characterized it as furtherance of a "witch hunt" against him by the Bush administration.


"It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S.," he said. "It's hard to reconcile this with the 'land of the free' and the 'home of the brave.'"


The FCC investigation was prompted by a listener in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who complained about a Stern program that included discussion of sex accompanied by flatulence sounds.


Federal law bars radio stations and over-the-air television channels from airing references to sexual and excretory functions between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., when children may be tuning in. The rules do not apply to cable and satellite channels or satellite radio.


The FCC imposed the maximum fine of $27,500 for each of 18 violations on six Clear Channel stations: WBGG in Fort Lauderdale; WTKS-FM in Cocoa Beach, Fla.; WTFX-FM in Louisville, Ky.; KIOZ in San Diego; WNVE in Honeoye Falls, N.Y.; and WSDS-FM in Pittsburgh.


The FCC fined each station for two specific incidents during a single program, the first time the commission has done so. Previously, the FCC levied fines for an entire program, no matter how many different indecent utterances occurred.


Commissioner Michael Copps, who usually dissents from indecency decisions because he says the penalties aren't strong enough, was part of a unanimous commission this time.


"I have long advocated that the commission use all of the tools it has to tackle indecency on the public airwaves," he said. "Today's decision is a step forward towards imposing meaningful fines."


Last month, the FCC proposed fining Stern's employer, Infinity Broadcasting, $27,500 for a Stern show broadcast July 26, 2001, on WKRK-FM in Detroit. The show featured discussions about sexual practices and techniques.


Infinity paid $1.7 million in 1995 to settle various violations by Stern. The Center for Public Integrity, a watchdog group, said fines against Stern accounted for almost half of the $4 million in penalties proposed by the FCC since 1990.


Stern has charged on the air that he's being punished for his criticism of President Bush (news - web sites). Clear Channel's political action committee and its employees have given $265,800 to Republicans for the 2004 election, more than any other broadcaster, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group.


"You've got to vote Bush out to send a message as a Howard Stern fan," Stern said during one recent broadcast. "There's a cultural war going on. The religious right is winning. We're losing."


A conservative advocacy group, the Parents Television Council, applauded the FCC's decision.


"Stern is a repeat offender of the most commonsense decency standards and we welcome the news that the FCC is moving to combat these patently indecent shows," said L. Brent Bozell III, the group's president.


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Well this fucking sux!

My prediction.... Bush is a gone in 04
Howard on sattelite, sattelite stocks through the roof.

Welcome to the new Era of radio!

How fucking hard can it be to change the channel if you don't like Stern? Indecent to who?

Shame on the FCC...

Land of the Free, Home of the Fart...

that sucks, the e show will continue though right?

With all the fucked up things going on in the world right now, which you can hear about 24/7, then this is obscene?

Apocalypse Now

"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their aeroplane because it's obscene."



Last edited by Rolo at Apr 8 2004, 03:11 PM

OMG...how will Meni be able to keep up with the world events, without Stern?
:rolleyes:

Am I wrong or is Stern just being taken off of 6 stations? 6 out of how many 300+ ?

Mike in February it was taken off 6, looks like it's gone from all now.

yep, that was clear channels statement that they are dropping him.

others may follow though.


edit saw stans posts

so its clear channel that owns ALL the stations he is on? Or most? I thought those six were the major ones and that he is on other networks that have nothing to do with clear channel.

I guess I can't answer your question afterall mike.



Last edited by pushpills at Apr 8 2004, 05:51 PM

Stern is on an Infinity Broadcast owned radio station here in Baltimore and I haven't heard anything about him being taken off the air here

In fact I heard commericials for Stern on the radio today

yea thats right infinity, they were the ones who paid out 1.5 mill several years ago for sterns obcenities. they must own a shitload of the stations that broadcast him

what a joke

people fart
people fuck

get over it already!

I wonder what happens in the bush household when someone farts :unsure:

I don't fuck!

Meni?


Meni?


Meni?



Are you OK?



No one is angry at you. We love you very much and we just want you to call home so we know you are ok.


Meni?



hello?



Last edited by JR at Apr 8 2004, 05:45 PM

I don't fuck![/b][/quote]
I don't fart

huh?

But Please Not at the same time!!!!!

No No No

Women do not fart - please don't destroy the myth

Guys
CC dumped him
not Infinity
CC suspended him since the first hearing
so he is off the air in FL, pittsburgh, rochester
but Inifinity has him on a ton of stations
and I get his show off alt.binaries.howard-stern
he's on vacation this week
its best of
guys this isn't about me blowing stern
its about the religious right dictating what we can listen to
Stern had a great fake commercial last week
the new invention called the KNOB
wow you can turn it
and get other stations
wow
the knoB WHAT AN invention

But Please Not at the same time!!!!!

No No No

Women do not fart - please don't destroy the myth[/b][/quote]
sorry to destroy that myth :biglaugh: but we DO!!!!

Sure people fart and people fuck, but most decent people don't talk about it during midday hours where children can freely hear them.
That's why it's called indecency.

sorry to destroy that myth :biglaugh: but we DO!!!![/b][/quote]
No NO NO NO

Especially not you with your voice!!!

I refuse to believe, I won't believe it

In fact I once lived with a woman who would wait until I left the house to ..... not break the myth!!!!




If anyone needs me I'll be in denial

Republicans don't fart..... When they turn 60 they just explode. :yowsa:

Well shit. I thought they just got Alzheimer's.

Only if they were a Democrat for the first half of their life.... :okthumb:

People who have children around them surely ought to be able to operate a television remote or radio dial.
That's why it's called common sense.

People who have children around them surely ought to be able to operate a television remote or radio dial.
That's why it's called common sense.[/b][/quote]
Children listening to a walkman or walking by a house/store that has the radio playing aren't mature enough to decide what they should or shouldn't be listening to, that's why they're called children.

Children listening to a walkman or walking by a house/store that has the radio playing aren't mature enough to decide what they should or shouldn't be listening to, that's why they're called children.[/b][/quote]
Have you ever listened to children talk when they don't think adults are listening?

By the age of 8 I could've made Stern blush, and I grew up back when it was racy for Ricky and Lucy to be in separate beds in the same room, and the strongest word I heard from anybody but my grandfather was darn.

So, this is an area that you agree with government regulation, huh? Interesting ...

That publically accessible, free airwaves should be adult-content-free between the hours of 10 am and 6pm?
Sure, I agree with that. What rights does it infringe PD?

Do you think they should be showing people fucking on free public television stations at those hours? If not, why not? It's just a visual of what Stern's audio was all about. What makes video so much worse than audio?

PS - no, gee, I've never heard kids talk when their parents aren't around... matter of fact, I've never seen an unsupervised kid in my life :rolleyes:
Besides, that's no excuse... "well he's gonna do it anyway"... puhlease. Kids will do anything anyway, but it's our job to set boundaries for them and try to enforce those boundaries even when we're not present.

Agreeing with PD or Meni makes me feel all oogy....

My 12 year old daughter put it to me this way. "Dad, mom got mad at me for saying a dirty word. She doesn't understand. I'm that age now, 12 year olds cuss. We just don't normally do it in front of our parents. Dad, think back, when you were 12 didn't you cuss?"



Last edited by Colin at Apr 9 2004, 04:27 AM

No , but I've read one or two of grogans posts.

If its about "protecting" the children, then I would like to see all news channels to drop broadcasting in those hours aswell... Children mix with puberty who are watching or listing to the news will think we are on the road to armageddon... I´m sure that leaves a % of all children depressed and worrying about the future, before they are adults.

Sure "bad" content should not be directly pushed to children, however as they get older, then they will get a hold of it - its called growing up. So why "over protect" children by trying it to make it disappear from the airways? (wouldn´t it be better to teach them what is "good" and "bad" content while you are with them to explain why?)

No NO NO NO

Especially not you with your voice!!!

I refuse to believe, I won't believe it

In fact I once lived with a woman who would wait until I left the house to ..... not break the myth!!!!




If anyone needs me I'll be in denial[/b][/quote]
i love the farts where you've had a tummy pain, but as soon as you fart its like releasing a pressure valve ....


pllllllllffffffffffftttttttttt

:matey:


HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA

I don't fart, I poot. :)

Carrie change the fuckin channel ok
what kid tunes in HIS radio to Stern at 7 am?
kids listen to the radio in bed at night
loveline, talkinga bout blowjobs for teens
change the fuckin channel
Professor writes about this fiasco

and it ends with...
There are a hundred million people out there like my sister, with a hundred million different views on what is offensive or acceptable or redeeming. Each one of those hundred million deserves to filter whatever she wants from her children and from herself. But never, ever, from me.


Never, ever from the rest of us.

All uptight about sex
he doesn't describe to a T sex acts
we are uptight
the religious right is fucking everyone over
you want indecency?
ok Carrie
McDonalds / Coke targetting children to be lifetime customers
more enlightened countries in Europe dont' allow commercials for children

Carrie your radio has a fuckin KNOB
use the knob
you knobgoblin

Great, thanks

You with that sexy, sexy voice have to post something like that

You had to fuck with my myths

Now I'm impotent :(

anyone read that link I put up?
professor's take on it
he put it best

and stern pushes that new invention called the knob is great too
I see this thread is done
stern wins