All true. But she’s still a respectably hot babe, especially given that she’s approaching 50. I even like the sound of her voice.
Can I slip in a vote for Chris Mathews on MSNBC? He asks a guests a question and then seldom lets them complete their answer. I know that the host has to keep the guest from filibustering, or wandering all over the place, but Mathews is over the top.
I don’t know if these guys are just regional, but there’s a duo out of Charlotte called John Boy and Billy. I call it “Redneck Radio.”
Lots of NASCAR chatter, stupid humor that their entire staff is evidently required to laugh at because it seems as if there are 100 people in the studio and everything is a complete riot, and the usual ultra-right wing guest commentator espousing Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
I avoid them like the plague. During the Beg-A-Thon on the local public radio station I just turn the damn thing off all together.
Howard Stern. Hated his schtick since he was doing afternoon AM radio in NY. Was carpooling back then - 3 out of 4 people in the car wanted to listen to Stern. Only when I drove was there a reprieve. Fortunately, I avoided him for many years. Then, at one of my previous jobs, the dude in the next pod (cubicle) would listen to him. Bleargh. As I liked the guy otherwise, I wasn’t about to get into dueling radios with NPR vs. Stern (besides, what he had on the rest of the day was fine). Then, another few Stern-free years, despite Stern doing his best to appear everywhere…as long as I had a remote, I could avoid Stern. Just recently though, I started an out-of-town assignment, and once again, some of my carmates were Stern fans. I’ve recently lucked into another NPR fan though, so maybe I can avoid Stern for another few years. Shouldn’t be a problem when he’s no longer on commercial radio.
I used to despise Matthews and his HARDBALL show. While I still can’t watch HARDBALL, I find that I like Matthews and his Sunday Morning show, The Chris Matthews Show.
It is basically a panel discussion with Chris and four respected journalists or columnists.
Usually one or two NBC reporters are there. They are joined by reporters from Newsweek, the Post, the NYT, The Wall Street Journal, or the BBC.
It is a pretty decent discussion of the week’s top political issues.
I liked Kennedy when she was on KROQ (early morning, before the Kevin & Bean Show). I kept wanting to call K&B and tell them to lay of her breasts. Some of us like small-breasted women!
I watch Don Imus every morning. He himself is damn near insufferable but I find his guests to be informative, so I keep at it. But boy…I’d like to knock that fuckin’ cowboy hat off his head some mornings. I love his side-kick Charles. He seems like a truly nice person most of the time.
Radio suffers a lot of disgusting individuals. One of the more disgusting was Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht, who had a popular show in DC before he got fired. He played a Lauryn Hill song after she won the Grammy and then mused that this sort of song led “them” to be dragged behind trucks.
:rolleyes:
Few people are as bad as their bad press, but this guy is, by most accounts.
There is a DC station with ratings so low they are almost unmeasurable, and their desparation has led them to hire this piece of scum for a morning shift. Predictions at the time were that he’d never work in radio ever again. I’m not sure that this really qualifies.
I think this guy might beat all the other contenders so far.
99.9% of my listening is NPR, we get an excellent lineup out of OPB. Before the extremist political commentators, right or left, took over there were a few good talk shows, but no more.
On TV I continue to wonder how Charlie Rose got where he is. I think he’s a lousy interviewer. It seems to be more about him wanting to impress you w/ his drawn out questions, than about what his guests have to offer.
Although she is Kennedy-esque, Madison is much, much worse. Like Kennedy on speed and…obnoxious pills. She talks about her own tits.
I have a hunch that $1/2 Billion, 5-year Sirius deal is going to turn out to be the biggest financial trainwreck in the history of broacasting. Before the ink was completely dry on the Sirius contract and months before his satellite debut, Stern signed a seperate Howard on Demand deal with pay-per-view cable channels.
Do the math, Stern has 12 million listeners. Even if he can increase listenership (which is doubtful), there are too many potential Sirius subscribers who will opt for a $9.99 TV subscription to see and hear Stern 24/7 in lieu of paying Sirius 50% more just to hear him.
A year from now, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Mel Karmazin and his inner circle were meeting in a dimly lit room disussing the on-air assassination of Stern. In fact, it might make a helluva kick off show for the next shock jock. Capital crime or not, itll be their only option…provided the network isn’t implicated.
After Martin Luthor King day was established, and resulted in a day off for a lot of people, he said something like “Kill one black leader and get a day off? We should kill four more and get the whole week off!”
Regardless of his racism, I couldn’t stand the way the guy spoke. When he was “in character” he had the most annoying mannerisms to his speech.
NO WAY?! The Grease is back in DC on the air? Just goes to show one person’s bane is another’s nirvana. Despite his rather blatant racist remarks which just about banished him forever, he had some good skits. Powerboatin’ women, Sgt. Fury, Mrs. Baumgartner… Schwe-eet… Even my Dad listened to the Grease (got his autograph)
Why the Howard Stern bashing? If you don’t like him, don’t listen, but he has millions of fans like myself who do listen because he makes us laugh four or five hours a day Monday through Friday. Do I think that everything he does is funny? Of course not. I thought his "Miss But-Her-Face contest went a little too far, but overall his antics crack me up. Excuse me if I think phoney phone calls, song parodies, weird guests, and his comments on everything from current events to women are entertaining. If you don’t “get” the show, don’t listen.
The latest prediction is that he will fail at Sirius radio. Well, when Howard syndicated his show outside of NYC, many people said he would fail because “radio listeners want local personalities who know their city”. Howard went on to hit Number #1 in every major market he entered. Many people said his books would fail and that no one would go see his movie. These individuals were proved wrong again as his books and movies were hits and made millions of dollars. His hiring at Sirius has already improved their bottom line.
Don’t ever bet against Howard Stern. I invite all those who think he will fail at satellite radio to return here one year after he begins broadcasting on Sirius and tell me what a "failure’ this first year has been.
I bash Howard Stern because I can. I don’t like his show. I never voluntarily listen to his show. Still, I get exposed to his show at infrequent intervals, from nearly the beginning of his schtick on afternoon AM radio to his current self, and I’ve found him unfunny and boorish over two decades. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, but I’ll stop bashing HS when people whom I (infrequently, thankfully) share rides with stop listening to him. Then I’ll forget that he exists for another 5 or so years (although his publicists and agents do a damn fine job of making sure no one on the planet forgets he exists).
Um, did you read the title of Sampiro’s thread? Miscreants like Stern beg a little bashing.
Add me to the list who cannot abide Rush Limbaugh. He’s a dirty yellow “journalist” who twists facts to suit his uber-right-wing agenda. In fact, add the rest of the brown-shirted boys chorus as well: G Gordon Liddy, Oliver North, Armstrong Williams and all the jack-booting wannabes clogging the small-town airwaves.
On the left, Al Franken is just plain annoying and I can’t imagine listening to Al Gore’s Harvardized drawl all day, if such a thing were to happen.
P.S. Paul Harvey