Sunday, January 07, 2007

New York Daily News: Stern Is Sirius-ly Rockin'

Stern is Sirius-ly rockin'...CBS is still reeling, 1 year after split
New York Daily News, Jan 7

Howard Stern left CBS radio with big shoes to fill. But in his move to Sirius Satellite Radio, he also left many of his listeners behind.
-->In the year since Howard Stern made his $500 million jump from free radio to Sirius Satellite Radio, he's been acting happier than a kid who got a box of brand-new strippers for Christmas.
"Radio had stopped being fun for me and now it is again," Stern recently said about his new world, free from FCC content restrictions. "This will save radio."
Less euphoric since Stern's Sirius debut last Jan. 9 is CBS Radio, which had to replace Stern on several dozen major stations, including WXRK, now WFNY (92.3 FM), in New York.
"No radio company has ever had to fill this kind of ratings and revenue void all at once," CBS CEO Joel Hollander said at the time....read more: here