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Re: The Howard Stern Thread
^^Tis good to see he still really gets into his job. i enjoyed both interviews! I was a daily fan years ago. I was able to catch the show every day on the drive to and @ work.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/237473
By Patrick Doyle
Nov 25, 2010 5:06 PM EST
Billy Joel is recovering after undergoing double-hip replacement surgery in New York.
"Billy Joel is doing extremely well following bilateral hip replacement and will be back at his Long Island home by the end of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend," Joel's publicist tells Rolling Stone.
The 61-year-old piano legend had been photographed recently using a cane and underwent surgery last week for a congenital disorder. Joel's publicist confirms he was able to eat Thanksgiving dinner today.
According to RadarOnline, Joel's ex-wife Christie Brinkley is caring for him. The two divorced in 1994.
"He did them both at the same time," Brinkley told RadarOnline. "Billy said, 'If I do it one at a time I know I'll never go in for the other...He's really doing well. He's really coming through with flying colors."
Leonard Cohen, Billy Joel Highlight Songwriters Gala
In the last month, Joel has been promoting The Last Play at Shea , a documentary about his historic final shows at Shea Stadium in 2008. He hasn't performed since March, and told Rolling Stone in February, "I had made up my mind a long time ago that I wasn't going to work this year."
"There was an incident with my daughter that was very shocking," he said. "I got divorced. I worked a lot. I promised myself more personal time this year. I'm going to Italy, and I'll probably go to Paris. I'll probably take my boat to New England and hang out on the coast. I'll ride my motorcycle. I'll just be a bum."
He added, "I see pictures of myself onstage, and I look at them and say, 'There has to be some kind of mandatory retirement age for doing this gig,' and then I watched the Super Bowl and saw the Who and I figure, 'Well, I guess there is no mandatory retirement age.' 'I hope I die before I get old,' — that went out the window. It's always possible that I'll tour again, whether it's with Elton or on my own. I love my job. For now I'm going to stop, but I won't sit around for the rest of my life and rot."
Re: The Howard Stern Thread
faldor wrote:I don't see what advantage he would have for taking it to the end and leaving the listeners up in the air. The move to Sirius was known over a year in advance and they didn't keep that quiet. IF they were going somewhere else, you'd think they'd want to get the fans excited for that venture and start promoting it.
But think about this. If Sirius had half a brain, they would have seen what happened when he left regular radio. If they're smart, they added that into his contract. That he cant say shit about leaving for somewhere else until his contract is up and he's off their airwaves. Sirius got a year of free promotion because of that, and we all remember how it ended with him being taken off the air.
I suppose, but what would be the plan if they let Howard walk? I think that'd be a HUGE risk for them. Far more than overpaying for him for a few more years. They can't overlook the numbers that subscriptions went through the roof BECAUSE of Stern. I don't know any other way they could spin it. And to think the numbers wouldn't be drastically cut if they let him walk, I think they're smarter than that. Is Oprah radio going to keep people tuned in? The Martha Stewart channel?
I just hope he stays because I'm a current subscriber and it works for me. I don't really want to go through the process of buying new hardware and equipment and paying for another subscription for wherever he might move to. I will, but I won't be happy about it.
The show has been off the hook lately. If the show at Sirius is coming to an end, they're going out in style.
Re: The Howard Stern Thread
Tommie wrote:faldor wrote:I don't see what advantage he would have for taking it to the end and leaving the listeners up in the air. The move to Sirius was known over a year in advance and they didn't keep that quiet. IF they were going somewhere else, you'd think they'd want to get the fans excited for that venture and start promoting it.
But think about this. If Sirius had half a brain, they would have seen what happened when he left regular radio. If they're smart, they added that into his contract. That he cant say shit about leaving for somewhere else until his contract is up and he's off their airwaves. Sirius got a year of free promotion because of that, and we all remember how it ended with him being taken off the air.
I suppose, but what would be the plan if they let Howard walk? I think that'd be a HUGE risk for them. Far more than overpaying for him for a few more years. They can't overlook the numbers that subscriptions went through the roof BECAUSE of Stern. I don't know any other way they could spin it. And to think the numbers wouldn't be drastically cut if they let him walk, I think they're smarter than that. Is Oprah radio going to keep people tuned in? The Martha Stewart channel?
I just hope he stays because I'm a current subscriber and it works for me. I don't really want to go through the process of buying new hardware and equipment and paying for another subscription for wherever he might move to. I will, but I won't be happy about it.
The show has been off the hook lately. If the show at Sirius is coming to an end, they're going out in style.
I heard or read somewhere recently that the rumour is that Sirius thinks the amount of subscriptions they'd lose vs what they pay Howard would end up being basically a wash.
It's a completely different level obviously, but a local morning team where I live has twice jumped stations in my time. They said the 1st time they knew it was going to happen 6 months in advance, but the second time they left for a 2 week Christmas vacation fully expecting to go back to work at the same station. Negotiations didn't go right so they switched with zero notice.
Re: The Howard Stern Thread
I think Sirius vastly underestimates the power of Stern if they think they'll break even if he leaves. Did they not see what happened to David Lee Roth, Adam Carrola, and others who replaced him on terrestrial radio? NONE of them worked out, stations had to switch formats, companies went out of business. It was not pretty.
I do believe they still don't know what's going to happen for sure and are still trying to hammer out a deal. We'll find out soon enough what happens.
Re: The Howard Stern Thread
OZZY OSBOURNE To Guest On 'The Howard Stern Show' - Nov. 29, 2010
Ozzy Osbourne will guest on "The Howard Stern Show" tomorrow (Tuesday, November 30). The program can be heard on Sirius XM radio from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Osbourne has announced a second leg of U.S. dates which will get underway January 16, 2011 in Omaha, Nebraska. The six-week 2011 trek, part of the multi-platinum Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee's in-progress 18-month world tour, will include a pair of intimate shows: January 26 at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix and February 1 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Ozzy's longtime friend and musical collaborator Slash will open all the concerts on the second leg.
Osbourne recently completed a run of overseas festival appearances and headlining overseas performances including his first-ever concert in Israel: a September 28 Ozzfest show at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv.
Ozzy's fall dates coincide with the October 5 release of an expanded two-CD version of the "Scream" album. This "Tour Edition" package features seven bonus songs: a mix of previously unreleased tracks and live recordings. Epic also issued a four-sided vinyl edition that includes five bonus tracks: the three aforementioned songs from the "Scream" sessions and the live version of "Let Me Hear You Scream", along with the single version of "Life Won't Wait".
Re: The Howard Stern Thread
Ozzy was pretty good on the show. Pretty standard from his past appearances though, nothing too exciting.
Still no word on the future of the show, BUT my favorite guest of 2010 is returning one last time.
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Re: The Howard Stern Thread
So the rumors have begun to fly. Stern leaving Sirius, headed to Apple? For the record, I've heard this rumor has been completely debunked. BUT, as the saying goes. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Re: The Howard Stern Thread
This is the only problem with taping the show and not listening in real time. I'm still on Tuesday's show, so I've got a ways to go to get to the announcement. I just got through listening to Howard rip into Sirius CFO about him possibly having to take a paycut. That didn't sound too good in terms of a negotiation tactic. I got the text early this morning though. Great news! Can't wait for the next five years. Now we can get back to wondering if Artie will ever come back for an appearance.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/165387 … tory.jhtml
Howard Stern Re-Signs with Sirius XM Satellite Radio
New five-year deal will bring Stern to iPhone as well.
By Gil Kaufman
Our long national nightmare is over. Howard Stern has been telling fans for months that he didn't know if he'd be back on the airwaves of Sirius XM satellite radio again when his contract was up on December 31. And, going into Thursday morning's (December 9) show, his ardent followers were getting anxious that they may only have five more chances to hear Stern before he disappeared from their cars and stereos for his next adventure ... or, Baba Booey-forbid, retirement.
Stern put their minds at ease on Thursday — but not before stringing them along with more than 35 minutes of artful stalling and red herrings that seemed to have some of his staff on the verge of passing out from nervousness — when he announced that after weeks of negotiations he has re-signed for five more years on satellite.
"We are continuing on," he finally announced, saying he feels he still has the "eye of the tiger" and that after surveying the current media landscape, he believes there's more left for him to do in radio. "I've signed a deal. ... I started to look at all the companies, Sirius included. And Sirius has been very, very anxious for me to re-sign. ... And I know deep down in my heart, I kept thinking I'd like to stay here. Because more than anything, I think what we've built hasn't been finished yet."
The stringing along continued as Stern crowed about the explosive growth of satellite radio since he joined five years ago. "I came to the conclusion after speaking to everyone that the real innovators and the real geniuses are the people here, that our home should be at Sirius satellite radio. ... My answer is that I will be here for the next five years."
The deals for his large supporting cast have not yet been cut, and Stern did not reveal the terms of his new contract. He did, however, say the new contract gives him more flexibility, and while there will be "plenty of show to go around," he did not say what that meant in terms of how many days he would work a week. "For now it's four days a week," he said. "But at some point it's going to change." The program will air from 6 a.m.- 10 a.m.; new shows currently air four days a week, with a "Best Of" on Friday mornings.
"I would like to continue this. I think this is the best home for [us]," Stern said. And then he made another big announcement: after years of frustration from fans about not being able to hear the show on the mobile phone applications, Stern said that, as of Thursday, the program will now be available on "any mobile device."
The jump to the Sirius XM mobile app was one of the keys, Stern said, to signing his new deal, since he believes the ability to get his show anywhere you are is the future of radio.
Explaining that the deal finally got closed on Wednesday, Stern, 56, said he told Sirius XM boss Mel Karmazin that after more than 30 years in broadcasting, he wasn't sure he wanted to stay in radio. "I told Mel that I wasn't sure that I wanted to continue working," he said. "That I had thoughts about retiring, going out on top. I feel we've done an amazing thing here at Sirius, and when history looks back on us it will say we gave birth to a new form of radio."
Milking the moment for all it was worth before finally spilling the beans, Stern apologized to long-time sidekicks Robin Quivers and Fred Norris for not telling them the news the previous night, admitting that, like most things in his life, he preferred to speak his mind on the air and share his thoughts with his fans as well. "I thought in the interest of good radio, which we've always put first, that I would say it on the air," he told Quivers. "So, forgive me for not saying this privately ... this isn't going to be easy to say. And I certainly couldn't look the fans in the eye and say it. This is going to be emotional, and I've never cried on the air and maybe this is going to be it."
Despite considering retirement, Stern said he recently concluded that he wanted to keep working and that an offer was on the table as of Wednesday. But then he got cold feet at the last minute, and as embarrassing as it was to admit it, he said he realized he loved playing chess and might be better off "going into the sunset." He even revealed that he's been in talks with his alma mater, Boston University, about becoming a professor and that two terrestrial radio companies had come to him and made offers.
"And so I decided with a lot of heavy heart to turn Mel down and go off into the sunset," he said. "Now, when I make my announcement, that could be my announcement," he teased.
Stern famously signed a five-year, $500 million contract with Sirius in 2004 that gave him $100 million per year to produce content on two channels. After years of being dogged with fines and restrictions by the FCC, the move to satellite in January 2006 liberated the famously profane radio veteran, allowing him to stretch the creative boundaries of his radio bits and freeing him to use the type of language and engage in the outrageous behavior that had earned him the "shock jock" honorific during his terrestrial radio days.
The announcement was something of a surprise, since just two days earlier Stern had unleashed a vicious tirade on Sirius XM's CFO after he felt that statements made by David Frear about at an investor seminar on Monday made it sound like the radio talker would have to take a pay cut if he were to re-sign with the network. "I know what I have done in this company," Stern raged. "I am not taking a f---ing paycut!"
