Howie’s Naughty Language
by Brian Maloney, March 26th, 2008 at 10:35pm
Yes, I know we’re late to the party here, but Howie’s “naughty” language flap is taking on a life of its own. It’s not just the Internet attention this has received, I’m also getting a number of emails.
I’m fighting off a nasty bug and behind on everything at the moment, by the way.
As you may have read, Carr was given the bleep treatment for daring to utter words as vile and filthy as “XM” and “Sirius” during his show.
Two thoughts:
1) Why is anyone surprised to hear Entercom censors its hosts? Perhaps if you’re new to SaveWRKO, we can cut you some slack, but to regular readers, there’s little new here.
2) I suppose this incident didn’t ring alarm bells here because Entercom’s had a stated policy for at least five years that XM and Sirius cannot be mentioned on any of its stations, ever. I recall a memo to this effect circa 2003.
In fact, for some time, the company took the highly unusual step of stripping out satellite radio spots from network news feeds. CBS was running XM ads after its hourly updates and board ops were under strict orders to make sure all were blocked.
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1 Comment
1. Cap'nClam | March 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
…seems as though “Muffin Top” Shack, AKA Nancy “the good nazi” is a little fast on the trigger there at the dump button lately! SeeYa