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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5 Comments
1. bjd | March 27th, 2008 at 5:48 am
If RKO had somebody worth listening to, it wouldn’t be a problem to mention XM / Sirius. Hell you could even advertise for them if the person working for RKO was good enough.
I don’t miss RKO during AM drive and mid morning. I have XM and even the “non English” stations are better than RKO until noon. (Truth be told, static or white noise is better than to those 2 fools.)
I wonder who was responsible for hiring those 2 dolts. I”ll bet they are worried about their jobs. I hope they didn’t pay a lot for the “talent”. (OK, you need to loosen up your definition of the word talent.)
2. jim | March 27th, 2008 at 11:38 am
well, Stern fans may remember in his last year or so at WXRK in NYC, he was forbidden to utter the word Sirius, like no one knew where he was going!! I’ve noticed more and more delay pauses on Howie for what seem like inexplicable reasons, never a good sign……
3. 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
4. the real Barbara | March 27th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Howie is constantly being silenced for who knows what…it seems to be happening more and more as of late. A lot of his listeners are being silenced as well. On another note, I was listening to Howie yesterday and it seemed every promo was either done by the felon or it was promoting his show, by listening to it you’d think he was the only host on RKO. I haven’t heard any alaska trip promos lately, I wonder if they actually got anyone to sign up for that trip? Sandy/Nancy is obnoxious,,,I don’t particularly care for her and her attitude especially when there’s a guest host….she has a tendency to treat the host as though he were an idiot. She does the same with Howie,,,,she was refusing to put something up on the website the other day and Howie basically told her that HE wanted up there and to get on it ASAP.
5. Tony Jankowski | March 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
can you believe that anyone is against their merger? XM and Sirius are two companies most likely not owned by YOU or anyone in Government. The courts made the right decision, they are not a monopoly. . . but the fact is that there should have been no court to even hear it. . . we are supposed to live in a FREE MARKET not a SOCIALIST MARKET. . . and you think you’re free? Try starting a satellite radio service and see how free you are.