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Russell Stover

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I just wanted to see what everyone thought about the fcc starting to get tough on radio dj's. I personally was a listener of Bubba the Love Sponge here in Tampa and don't think he should have been fired or Howard stern should have been taken off the air on the six radio stations Clear Channel owns. If people don't want to listen, then they shouldn't..or they should simply turn it off. With this issue and the issue of gay marriage taking up our congress' time, what is happening to social security??:confused:
 
Agreed! Turn it off. nobody is forcing you to listen.

SAY isn't this site FCC monitored :D
 
this issue REALLY pisses me off!

the FCC totally sticks their nose in fredome of speech and expression.

i was SUPER pissed when i hear today that Howard Stern will not be broadcasted in certain areas.

it seems like since jannet jackson, the FCC has had a bug up their A$$ and they are using it as an excuse to crack down.

all these $$$ investagations into weather stupid things like that are moral ect ect, while we obviously have WAYYYY bigger problems.

i was also disapointed to find that clearchanel gives HUGE $$ to the bush cause.
not that im mad they support bush, just that clearchanel SUCKS and its crappy that they get all this power.
 
Clear channel supports Bush? They must be good then. I think FOX is a clear channel affiliate. Maybe Clear channel doesn't go on and on with the outrageous left wing lies about the President. You know, when you say the same bull$hit over and over again, people start to believe it. That's been the liberal plan ever since Bush was elected.

I don't know what Stern has to say on the radio, but I've seen his TV show. The guy is a freek! The guy's interests go from toe sucking to defication and I guess people who are interested in such things are his fans. He needs your defense. :rolleyes:

I never listened to the Sponge, but didn't he slaughter a pig on his show for laughs? Great show! :rolleyes:
 
This is starting to get rediculous. I am seriously thinking of voting against anyone seeking re election this November that supports this including the president. I'm sick of the government deceiding for me what is moral and what is immoral. Most radio shows are now on a tape delay so no 4 letter words get out as per FCC rules, now all the stuff that they have been doing for years now all of a sudden is not allowed because Janet Jackson popped a boob. People need to get a damn grip. If you ever travel to Europe there are topless women on commercials and they say 4 letter words all the time. It is not corrupting them.

Like Howard or Bubba, or whomever or hate them, this is becoming the most un free, free country in the world.
 
The FCC didn't take Stern off the air.

Clear Channel didn't want the albatross of loss of advertisers or the possiblity of Stern breaking laws that have existed forever and not being able to cover the fine.

Radio may be free to you, but it isn't free. Companies need to make decisions based on how much money somebody does or doesn't make for them.

Clear channel isn't huge because they are buying radio stations other people want. There is very little money in individual radio stations and you have to be huge to survive.
 
Clear Channel didn't want the albatross of loss of advertisers or the possiblity of Stern breaking laws that have existed forever and not being able to cover the fine.

Not true. Clear Channel purchases the show through syndication. The Individual radio stations do not pay the fine, the Syndication company pays them. Clear channel has not had a problem with Howard for many years and stood behind them. They are not dumping Howard Stern because they beleive him to be raunchy or they will lose advertisers, they are worried about government officials that will vote against them trying to buy up other radio stations. They are willing to sacrifice free speech so they will have no trouble lining their pockets.

Oh and no laws were broken. Every time an FCC RULE , not law was broken, they have been fined. It has been a long time since they have been fined.
 
If Clear Channel is "worried about government officials that will vote against them trying to buy up other radio stations" then the root cause for Howard Stern being pulled from 6 Clear Channel stations is the Democrats?

They seem to be the only ones having a problem with Clear Channel.
 
If Clear Channel is "worried about government officials that will vote against them trying to buy up other radio stations" then the root cause for Howard Stern being pulled from 6 Clear Channel stations is the Democrats?

Yes

Do a search www.google.com just type in "clear channel senate" You will see how John McCain headed a bill against clear channels attempts to buy up radio stations.
 
I FU*KIN HATE BUBBA

i cant stand that SOB, with his throat claring and eating stuff on the air, so...i changed the station. easy as that!! thats pretty messed up that they fired people and took them off the air. they should have just shot them in the parking lot like in Talk Radio:D
 
what really got me was clear channels president saying he was embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with them on his radio stations. Well they have only been on them for ten years or so and now he's ashamed and embarrassed.
 
I am glad that fat pig bubba the love sponge got booted all he did was whine and complained anyways. I am pissed off that they are trying to put blame on the republicans for all this fcc crap. As i recall Clinton was the one who oppointed the head of the FCC and hes been in there since. Not to mention what Tipper Gore was trying to do a while back but no one wants to mention all of that.
 
Not sure who appointed him, but Colin Powells son his head of the FCC.
 
Accoriding to the FCC the individual stations pay the fines not the syndication company. So look at the xposure that Clear channel has if Stern get fined, 6 times what ever the fine is. Ther FCC also states that fines are going be raised by 10 times to prove that they mean business. Stern has made himself and his employers millions by using the public airwaves to say and do things that many feel are purely racist, sexual, and indecent. I have fun hearing some things that go on during the show but many times he goes to the gutter. Making fun of the handicaped, mentally challenged, and many other groups. Some may laugh, as middle school kids do, but it realy hurts people in those groups as he makes it " OK" to act like that. If you were handicaped, mentally challenged or the like you would love to kick his AZZ for this crap. Do you think it's right to make fun of people for things they cannot control? Howard is Jewish. He never breaks the ballz of his own people beacuse he can't without sponsors flipping out. He has been lucky to stay on the air this long. Broadcasting is not a right it's a privllage. I want freedom of speach but this is not what freedom is. You must act responsibly.
 
Howard Sterns Syndication company pays all fines.

Bottom line is I don't want the government deceiding what is decent or indecent for me to listen to.
 
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