i hope CC execs rot in hell, the limey bastards.

It's pretty interesting that Howard played an excerpt from Robin Seacrest's new show where there was no time delay on the incoming phone calls and people "dropped the f-bomb"

This was a Clear Channel station yet their "zero tolerance" policy doesn't apply. Hmmmm

What tv station was that?

It was a radio station KIIS

Here's some more info on clearchannel...

http://www.amconmag.com/1_19_04/article3.html

And

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/03/far04006.html

Noticed that no one picked up on the fact that THE VERY NEXT DAY after Howard Stern got pulled, the CEO of ClearChannel gave testimony on censorship and such to Congress.

Coincidence?

As I asked in the political thread of this and I am still waiting for an answer........

Why is it wrong for Stern to say what he says(and it is not explicit) and get banned and fired upon (on a show that is on while kids are at school) yet G GORDAN LIDDY could say he named his targets after a SITTING president and his wife and the GOP laughed and found nothing wrong with a subtle threat on the president's life? Liddy by the way had his show on during the afternoon when kids are getting home.

No for these right wing fascists to try to dictate what we can hear and what we can't is only showing people what they truly are POWER FREAKS.

And yes I agree wholeheartedly with the Stern not supporting Bush so he's gone off Clear Channel. Pretty much the same way that company tried to destroy the Dixie Chicks.

Anyone else find it funny that Daddy Bush sits on the board of the Carlysle that supports Clear Channel?

Link to Clear Channel and the Bush family................ http://www.takebackthemedia.com/radiogaga.html


*edited for link put on purposes

By the way, does anyone see the hypocrisy of how Clear Channel banned the Dixie Chicks from thier stations and tried to run thier names into the mud, just because they spoke out against Bush, yet they sponsored and were the promoters for the Dixie Chicks' concerts?

"That's right folks, we won't play thier music and we will have our talk show hosts and DJ's dispparge and verbally rape them, BUT damn we're gonna make a killin on them tickets for thier shows."

You're a genius you are Tom Hicks and gang. Just better pray the people never truly find out how you went from barely affording to keep 6 stations on in Texas to the giant you are now..... who still runs in the deep red because you undercut and do whatever you can to kill off your competition.

Seeems like anything that has to do with ViaCom is getting slammed these days.
As for Howard Stern, never liked the show so i don't care either way whether he is on air or not.

But do you care about your freedom of speech? Even if you don't agree with Howard, what is happening here is clearly an injustice. He is being silenced for speaking out against the Bush administration.

I guarantee if Bush wins Clear Channel either takes over Viacom or the FCC and the government find ways to shut it down.

Viacom is Clear Channel's last major competitor in radio, billboards and concert promotions. Once Viacom is gone all the smaller companies fall.

Once upon a time the GOP fought monopolies now they build them.

Viacom vis a vie Infinity Broadcasting only owns 180 radio stations.

Clear Channel owns over 1200 stations and syndicates to over 1700.

The 3rd largest radio owner Cox is considerably less than Viacom coming in around 80 stations.

Infinity Outdoor is the largest billboard adversiter in the US, owned by Viacom.

As far as concert promotion, Viacom does cooperative advertising via MTV and VH1. Again, because the industry is incestuous, it also cannot hurt Viacom, because Viacom has no vested interests in the cross promotion, but the artists do.

While Viacom is the 3rd largest media corporation next to AOL Time Warner, and Disney, Clear Channel is a much much smaller company and ultimately cannot hurt Viacom.

Just to prove that I'm not 100% full of it

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...p-149021c.html

aah. KIIS is a radio station, I thought you were referring to the Seacrest show ON THE AIR.

I can't believe that Rick Dees finally stepped down, he was old when my friend interned at KIIS during college, and I even remember him during the Disco Duck days...

seacrest. OUT!

Hmm, well that's one good side to Clear Channel's market dominance. Maybe he'll just fade away now. (Unlikely).

Flip side of it is that I am sure that they didn't rmove him because he isn't funny (though he isn't) but because he offended someone who Clear Channel doesn't want offended, and that's just slimy.

Today's show Stern sounded like they weren't going to pull the plug so soon after all because the Right didn't want to make him a martyr for 1st amendment advocates.