Archive for radio

  • Howard Stern and Sirius Are at the Top of Christmas Lists Howard Stern and Sirius Are at the Top of Christmas Lists

    Add Howard Stern to the list of Christmas gifts with a following that made them difficult, if not impossible, to find at the height of their popularity. The aging, crass shock jock who ruled mornings on FM radio in Boston and elsewhere took his act to Sirius Satellite Radio, the number-two player...

  • XM and Sirius Merge XM and Sirius Merge

    Seems that XM and Sirius will merge soon. The two rivals of the satellite radio industry have announced today that they have reached an agreement and will merge as equals. Shareholders of both XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. will own about 50% each of the new entit...

  • DJ Carl Blaze of Power 105.1 Murdered

    DJ Blaze, 30, was a DJ for hip-hop and R&B radio station Power 105.1 FM for about three years. He had gained a large fan base by spinning records at clubs and on the air on Friday and Saturday nights. A popular hip-hop disc jockey died Saturday after being shot at least 13 times earlier this month, ...

  • Miss Howard Stern Andrea Ownbey

    The number of country artists who have appeared on Howard Stern's radio show is small. Willie Nelson has, and so have the Dixie Chicks. Add rising country star Trent Tomlinson to that short but impressive list. A native of Kennett, Mo. (also the hometown of Sheryl Crow) Trent Tomlinson scored wi...

  • Diddy and Danity Kane Back on Tour

    The Pussycat Dolls will open the show on all North American dates and Danity Kane will also join the bill for U.S. concerts. Ticket on-sales for the tour begin October 14. The arena concert tour stops include Dallas, Los Angeles, Boston, San Diego, Phoenix, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Toron...

  • What’s New with Windows Media Player 11

    Windows Media player 11 looks very different to earlier versions of windows media player. This is because it has been designed with Windows Vista in mind. At this time it is not certain if Windows media player 11 will be available before Windows Vista is released. The application does function perfe...

  • Opie and Anthony to Replace David Lee Roth

    David Lee Roth's run as morning radio host is about done. Big surprise: It appears raunchy satellite radio stars Opie and Anthony will replace him on seven CBS Radio stations. A deal was in the works to dump the ex-Van Halen singer's ratings-deprived program with shock jocks Greg "Opie" Hughes an...

  • Howard Stern's daughter was nude on stage Howard Stern’s daughter was nude on stage

    Howard Stern's daughter Emily has pulled out of a satirical stage performance in which she appears nude, apparently worried that enemies of her father would distribute pictures of her on the Internet. Emily Stern, 22, has starred since November in "Kaballah," staged by the Jewish Theater of New Y...

  • David Lee Roth is to Radio, as George Bush is to America

    I am a lifelong Howard Stern fan. I have my Sirius radio and I am ready to go. Stern starts on Monday so I decided to check out his replacement, the infamous David Lee Roth. David is the ex-singer for the rock band Van Halen. Those of you who are childern of the 70s know David as the wild, womani...

  • Howard Stern’s Final Day Before Sirius Satellite Radio

    Howard Stern’s last show on free radio airs Friday; after a brief hiatus he will return in early January on Sirius satellite radio, which has offered him a contract said to be worth $500 million over five years. I won’t be following him to satellite. I love Howard Stern; he was one of ...

  • Diddy’s Making the Band 3 is an MTV Hit

    Diddy never met a camera he didn't like. He's also loath to admit failure in the Bad Boy empire. So his spin machine went into overdrive after his efforts to put together a rap supergroup on Making the Band 2 flopped. While the show managed so-so buzz, the trainwreck of bad actors and bad rappers pr...

  • Howard Stern’s WILD Promotion Campaign

    Howard Stern and Sirius are on a PR roller-coaster trying to get the word out that in January Stern will be exclusively on Sirius. On TV, you’ll see Stern interviewed by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and making a cameo on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. In print, you can read maj...

  • Howard Stern Quitting Radio and Moving to Sirius Satelite

    The seeds of the Howard Stern satellite radio revolution are planted in a simple black spiral notebook. Across its blank pages, the Lenny Bruce of broadcasting scrawls ideas for the riskiest (and richest) move of his radio career, a collection of deranged concepts that fly unfettered from his id, wi...

  • Howard Stern got Hacked!

    Howard Stern's radio satelite was hit with a virus this morning causing the show to switch to ESPN radio for a few seconds and then to some spanish radio show for a few minutes. In the middle of Howard Stern interviewing Willie Nelson producer Gary dell'abate came in and told Stern that they lost th...

  • Circuit City Installs Satelite Radios

    As many companies try to diversify their trade services we are seeing a rather unusual migration to services that one might never think possible in the Oil Change Quick Lube Industry. One company we visited had closed one of it's bays since it had a Cirbuit City across the street and started to inst...

  • Nik Carter fired

    At radio stations, the end of the year means the contracts expire and either DJs stay on or move out. Thus, sometimes it also means that those familiar voices quietly spin off the local dial. In the case of WBCN 104.1FM's afternoon DJ Nik Carter, the veteran rock jock didn't get a new contract and w...