I wish they all could be Diamond Dave
Everybody’s always out to get Howard Stern. It’s all good though because he’s moving to Sirius, so none of you haters can ever complain, since just about nobody actually has satellite radio.
Infinity Broadcasting announced his replacements today, and it doesn’t sound too bad. In fact, it’s sort of like they took Howard and chopped him up into little pieces.
Adam Carolla is getting his west coast stations, and if you’ve seen Too Late, it stands to reason that he can be entertaining when he’s not doing the latent homosexual gig with Jimmy Kimmel or giving questionable advice to herpes-infected teenagers on Loveline.
If you’re into strippers, you’re in luck because David Lee Roth is taking over on the east. Hey, you go with what you know. Kudos, Diamond Dave. You’re being passed one heck of a torch.
If you’re somewhere in the middle, it’s the luck of the draw. You’ll probably end up with Jack-FM, CNN or some lame talk show. Then again, if you’re somewhere in the middle of this country, you probably learned to keep low expectations years ago.
November 4th, 2005 at 1:56 am
I think it shows that there are definitive periods for everyone to prevail. When we needed an Elvis, we got an Elvis and made him world famous. When we needed a Michael Jackson, we got a Michael Jackson (and now no one likes him). We we needed a Howard Stern, we lauded him for his ability to say what was on his mind.
To Elvis and Michael’s credit, they both had marketable talents. But Howard’s “say what is on your mind and keep it entertaining” had ended up turning into raunchy radio. Which was okay for a time but he took his popularity and began to think his opinion actually mattered to any of his fans. And really, it doesn’t.
November 4th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
I have to agree. Howard always has the ability to be great, but I think the reason that people tune in every day is mostly just out of habit and the desire to hear a familiar voice.
He’s not doing anything particularly innovative, and I’m not really sure what he’s hoping to accomplish on satellite.
Naked strippers are all well and good, but eventually you become desensitized to all of it, and I think that hearing him say how hot they are and telling them to do degrading things for publicity just gets kind of old after a while.
Arguments about his content aside, he’s gotten stale. You can’t claim to be on the cutting edge when you’ve been riding it for so long that you’ve managed to dull it.