Howard Stern on Imus, Sharpton

[Herman Munster]

http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/12/imus-to-satellite-radio-guess-again/

Sirius' biggest star, Howard Stern, simply detests Imus. Viz, Stern's on-air rant against him a spineless wimp: "If it was me and I did something stupid like that I would just go on and say, 'I'm not going on Al Sharpton's show. Al Sharpton is a piece of s**t. He's just a human being that is bankrupt, and he should pay his bills.... I would rather just leave the radio than apologize to that man...' I like Al Sharpton, by the way."

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. It's good to see somebody elevate the level of this debate.

[Radio_Lady]

2. Can you please tell me -- what is the approximate audience size of Stern's Sirius program?

I have no idea how many people are (still) listening to him.

[Herman Munster]

3. I'd say

Probably a million or two. Down from 10 million+.

[Radio_Lady]

4. Where are the actual figures? Or are you just guessing?

He has only 1/10th the audience he once had? Is that what you are suggesting?

[Bluestar]

5. Yes, but he makes 10 times the money on Sirius

and he gets to say anything he wants. Not a bad trade-off for a shock jock.

[soothsayer]

6. sirius has 6 million listeners now, up from 2 mill before Howard came

over

[soothsayer]

7. He's said alot, so it's hard to distill it down into this, but basically

he said that Imus had mishandled trying to recover from this, and should have just said, "look, I was making a joke, they pay me to make jokes, it was a dumb joke, I didn't mean to offend those young women" and moved on. And that going to known racist Sharpton, who mainly is trying to publicize his own radio show, was a mistake. Which it was.