Is it any surprise? When a company is willing to pay a has-been shock jock half a billion dollars to work 4 days a week and take 4 months of vacation a year, there is probably something seriously wrong with the management. Thanks for ruining another good idea, Mel!
Exactly. One good thing if the company goes under is Howie will have to crawl back to terrestrial begging for his spot back or retire like he should have years ago. He was already set for life before this deal - he had to be greedy and take half a billion and now he'll have nowhere to go.
Agreed with it all(both). What alot of people don't understand is that satellite radio excels (or at least should) in the talk segment. The music is a lovely bonus(before it got watered down, and dj's talked. . . seriously KORN on Liquid Metal!! I HATE jose mangin). I listen for basicly one channel now and that's 202, if regular radio wasn't so happy go lucky, morning zoo, censored and so cookie cutter like sat-rad would probably not exist. Same with music but on a lesser scale.
I also love that you're promoting a show which likely has less listeners than Howie while complaining that Howie will have nowhere to go... if Howard can't get a spot on terrestrial radio what'll happen to those two? I think the rivalry between the two sides has to end and probably should have ended years ago. I think the fans perpetuate more than the actual show hosts.
Do any of you whining idiots realize that the 500 million Stern got for his show, isn't just for him? It's 100 million/year to cover his salary, his staff's salaries, and production costs for the show.
If this really pans out, it's because the NAB got their way and made the whole merger process drag on over OVER A YEAR which resulted in both Satellite companies hemorrhaging cash.
I personally won't listen to regular radio ever again (nor have I for several months now). It's absolute crap and there's no incentive for it to improve. It will truly be a sad day if Satellite radio goes off the air.
@Dex Are you kidding? I don't think people are whinning over Stern getting $500mil, but that someone would pay him that much. You must have gone to business school to think it costs $100mil/year to keep his operation running. Greedy bastards...
Howard gets 10 weeks of vacation per year - the same exact amount he got on regular radio. He does four five-hour shows a week. With roughly only 25-30 minutes of commercials per show. That is a hell of a lot more show than he was ever able to do on regular radio (four hour show with over an hour of commercials). Plus it's uncensored and hilarious. There have been some great A-list guests recently too.
$100 Million per year for Howard, Robin, Fred, Artie, Gary and everybody else that works on the show. Not just Howard by himself. Sirius has 600,000 subs before he announced he was moving to satellite and about 10 million before the merger. If only a million those new subs subscribed for him, he more than made up for his contract for that year.
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Is it any surprise? When a company is willing to pay a has-been shock jock half a billion dollars to work 4 days a week and take 4 months of vacation a year, there is probably something seriously wrong with the management. Thanks for ruining another good idea, Mel!
Exactly. One good thing if the company goes under is Howie will have to crawl back to terrestrial begging for his spot back or retire like he should have years ago. He was already set for life before this deal - he had to be greedy and take half a billion and now he'll have nowhere to go.
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Agreed with it all(both). What alot of people don't understand is that satellite radio excels (or at least should) in the talk segment. The music is a lovely bonus(before it got watered down, and dj's talked. . . seriously KORN on Liquid Metal!! I HATE jose mangin). I listen for basicly one channel now and that's 202, if regular radio wasn't so happy go lucky, morning zoo, censored and so cookie cutter like sat-rad would probably not exist. Same with music but on a lesser scale.
I also love that you're promoting a show which likely has less listeners than Howie while complaining that Howie will have nowhere to go... if Howard can't get a spot on terrestrial radio what'll happen to those two? I think the rivalry between the two sides has to end and probably should have ended years ago. I think the fans perpetuate more than the actual show hosts.
Nothing better happen to my l'il Jimmy Norton, praise His name.
Do any of you whining idiots realize that the 500 million Stern got for his show, isn't just for him? It's 100 million/year to cover his salary, his staff's salaries, and production costs for the show.
If this really pans out, it's because the NAB got their way and made the whole merger process drag on over OVER A YEAR which resulted in both Satellite companies hemorrhaging cash.
I personally won't listen to regular radio ever again (nor have I for several months now). It's absolute crap and there's no incentive for it to improve. It will truly be a sad day if Satellite radio goes off the air.
@Dex Are you kidding? I don't think people are whinning over Stern getting $500mil, but that someone would pay him that much. You must have gone to business school to think it costs $100mil/year to keep his operation running. Greedy bastards...
Howard gets 10 weeks of vacation per year - the same exact amount he got on regular radio. He does four five-hour shows a week. With roughly only 25-30 minutes of commercials per show. That is a hell of a lot more show than he was ever able to do on regular radio (four hour show with over an hour of commercials). Plus it's uncensored and hilarious. There have been some great A-list guests recently too.
$100 Million per year for Howard, Robin, Fred, Artie, Gary and everybody else that works on the show. Not just Howard by himself. Sirius has 600,000 subs before he announced he was moving to satellite and about 10 million before the merger. If only a million those new subs subscribed for him, he more than made up for his contract for that year.
@ congoose
You must not have gone to school at all if you can't see the facts which are plain as day!
Just because YOU can't comprehend someone making more than minimum wage, doesn't exclude it from happening, nor does it make them "greedy bastards".
Jealousy is such a horrible demon to be possessed by.