I find the timing very suspicious, which is why I'm comparing it to Jon Stewart. Another person stealing Howard's thunder. I mean - come on - a local show in San Francisco?? This was solely done for the press attention it would generate.
The FCC did go after Howard - no arguing there. However, they have not harmed his business. He's going to do quite well on Sirius - did you see those numbers? He's making a fortune.
And Stern, for all of his pranks, really does have intelligent, rational thought behind things he says....sometimes. Obviously, not now.
Don't get me wrong, I would never defend Powell, I think he's a twit. But I also think that calling him names is doing more harm than good.
As much as I like Howard Stern's radio show, he's really hurting his own cause at this point.
Accusing Michael Powell of nepotism will get him air time on the Today show, but it hardly has the same impact of Jon Stewart taking on the Crossfire hosts on the actual ISSUES in media.
By the way, I strongly suspect that's what's happening here...Jon Stewart is getting a lot of positive attention appearing on other people's shows, 60 Minutes, Crossfire, so Howard Stern jumped on the bandwagon. There's a huge difference, though. Jon Stewart made valid, well thought out points, backing them up with facts, even quotes from his show, even though he certainly had an axe to grind.
Howard just called Michael Powell names. I'd expect that from Stuttering John.
One more year and Howard will be off the terrestrial radio and onto my Sirius - then the FCC can go after Oprah all it wants. Supposedly they truly are investigating her. Sure.
He should just stop this childish behavior for now and leave things alone, he's not helping his case at all.
Wrong use of good technology. I own two TiVo's, I subscribe to Sirius, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day that I can hit quick rewind on my radio (since I keep trying to do it by accident ANYWAY).
But since 99% of the stuff I listen to on the radio is talk anyway (I have an ipod for music), the only reason I would ever time-shift something would be to avoid commercials, that's impossible to do. There isn't a visual clue that the commercials are over. The only way that could be possible would be if the device somehow knew commercials were over - and, well, we've been down that road before with television, haven't we....
I do want a hard drive on my Sirius. But only a small one, so I can rewind back a few seconds, as I mentioned above, for those moments when I wonder - hey, what did they just say? Time-shifting just doesn't make sense to me.
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I find the timing very suspicious, which is why I'm comparing it to Jon Stewart. Another person stealing Howard's thunder. I mean - come on - a local show in San Francisco?? This was solely done for the press attention it would generate.
The FCC did go after Howard - no arguing there. However, they have not harmed his business. He's going to do quite well on Sirius - did you see those numbers? He's making a fortune.
And Stern, for all of his pranks, really does have intelligent, rational thought behind things he says....sometimes. Obviously, not now.
Don't get me wrong, I would never defend Powell, I think he's a twit. But I also think that calling him names is doing more harm than good.
As much as I like Howard Stern's radio show, he's really hurting his own cause at this point.
Accusing Michael Powell of nepotism will get him air time on the Today show, but it hardly has the same impact of Jon Stewart taking on the Crossfire hosts on the actual ISSUES in media.
By the way, I strongly suspect that's what's happening here...Jon Stewart is getting a lot of positive attention appearing on other people's shows, 60 Minutes, Crossfire, so Howard Stern jumped on the bandwagon. There's a huge difference, though. Jon Stewart made valid, well thought out points, backing them up with facts, even quotes from his show, even though he certainly had an axe to grind.
Howard just called Michael Powell names. I'd expect that from Stuttering John.
One more year and Howard will be off the terrestrial radio and onto my Sirius - then the FCC can go after Oprah all it wants. Supposedly they truly are investigating her. Sure.
He should just stop this childish behavior for now and leave things alone, he's not helping his case at all.
I like call in shows - those will always require the live element :)
But yeah, the idea of being able to pull down high quality sound is appealing.
Wrong use of good technology. I own two TiVo's, I subscribe to Sirius, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day that I can hit quick rewind on my radio (since I keep trying to do it by accident ANYWAY).
But since 99% of the stuff I listen to on the radio is talk anyway (I have an ipod for music), the only reason I would ever time-shift something would be to avoid commercials, that's impossible to do. There isn't a visual clue that the commercials are over. The only way that could be possible would be if the device somehow knew commercials were over - and, well, we've been down that road before with television, haven't we....
I do want a hard drive on my Sirius. But only a small one, so I can rewind back a few seconds, as I mentioned above, for those moments when I wonder - hey, what did they just say? Time-shifting just doesn't make sense to me.