Word: sterne
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...Howard Stern calls himself the King of All Media, but in his three decades of radio broadcasting he has also earned a more dubious crown: the King of All Fines. Stern, who hosted his last FM-radio show on Friday, has cost stations that carry his program nearly $3 million in FCC penalties for indecency. He didn?t help his cause when in 1992 he infamously declared on the air that he hoped the prostate cancer of an FCC commissioner would spread through his body. ?When I get angry and really fired up... I will say vicious things,? he told...
...That, in essence, is the $500 million gamble for investors in Sirius Satellite Radio, Stern?s broadcaster come January. Sirius, as you may know, is one of two satellite radio services (the other is XM) over whose content the FCC has no jurisdiction. Each service charges $13 a month for dozens of channels of commercial-free music, talk, sports and a variety of other content. Sirius has about 2.2 million subscribers, XM boasts 5 million (as of the end of September) and both are elbowing each other to sign high-profile talent. Besides Stern, Sirius is trumpeting a Martha Stewart...
...Widman ’06 The triumphant trio, FM’s pink polo-clad proofers keep us (relatively) out of trouble with the law and various campus organizations. When the FM eds are giggling about yet another inane sex joke, the proofers giggle with us, then shoot us stern glances (translation: get me pages...
...Letterman. “They got everything, of course, because they’re smart. And they’re polite and very enthusiastic. It’s all you can ask for.”Modi, who was the emcee for the show and has toured with Howard Stern, also appreciated the audience.“I knew that they couldn’t be uptight; I knew that they would be so cool and open to all types of comedy,” he said. The comedy show was one of a series of events sponsored...
...Development, rich nations spend more than $280 billion a year on agricultural "producer support." The U.S. is a piker compared with the European Union, which, when noncash payments and other aid are added in, spends more than three times as much coddling its farmers. World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern estimates that a European cow receives $2.50 a day in subsidies, while 75% of Africans live on less than...