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Satellite Radio & Shock Jocks
By Reno Charlton, Fri Dec 9th
The term “Shock Jock” has become well known since the 1980s.These bad boys of the airwaves have happily stomped on anddisregarded the FCC regulations to the delight - and at times,disgust of their audiences. The rule of thumb in the “ShockJock” entertainment form is, the more disturbing, shocking, andpolitically incorrect the show - the better. Howard Stern, one of the highest paid radio personalities inbroadcast history is the one who is responsible for the phrase“Shock Jock” Howard Stern has proclaimed himself “King of theMedia” With his great success he pioneered what is known as“Shock Jock” radio programs. It is commonly believed that HowardStern’s exploitation of women, sex and his discrimination ofcertain ethnic groups is one of the main ingredients for hissuccess. Howard Stern is the most fined personality in radio andactually encourages the fines and touts these FCC fines as ifthey were medals of Honor. The Howard Stern radio show was thebeginning of a revolution in radio. The Ingredients of Shock Jock Success
What is it about this type of radio program that brings so muchsuccess to these bad boys of the airwaves? The total shock valueof their programs is one of the main ingredients to theirsuccess. For example, on one of Howard Stern’s radio shows, heconvinced a female caller to have phone sex with him on the air.He made deep buzzing noises into his microphone, and had her siton a speaker with the volume turned up until she reached anon-the-air orgasm. Another notorios example occurred on DC101Radio in Washington D.C. in which Stern called Air FloridaAirlines and asked what the fare was for a one-way ticket fromNational Airport to the 14th Street Bridge. He was making lightof the crash of an Air Florida flight into Washington D.C.'s14th Street Bridge one day earlier, on January 13, 1982. ThatJune 29, Stern was fired from DC-101 radio after being suspendedfor criticizing his station management and two other radiostations. The number of commercials aired during his radio show hasgreatly increased from the 1980s to the present. Though HowardStern has brought much critisism to this form of entertainment,he still seems to be able to draw hords of listeners. Despitethe provocative content of Stern's show—or perhaps because ofit—many listeners and critics consider Stern to be a talentedon-air personality and formidable interviewer. The FCC and the Broadcast Industry Cracksdown Howard Stern’s fame has brought out a number of imitation "shockjocks" who try to top Stern in terms of offensiveness andrudeness, but these imitators have found themselves with moretroubles to worry about than listener ratings. In 2002 fellowInfinity Broadcasting Corporation jocks Opie and Anthony hadtheir nationally syndicated WNEW-FM "extreme talk" showcancelled after they managed to get a couple to engage in sexualintercourse at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, thenairing a running commentary of the act on their show. Though Stern’s show is generally considered not to be asoffensive as Opie and Anthony, on February 25, 2004, ClearChannel Communications "indefinitely suspended" him from sixmarkets because of alleged indecency. The broadcasted show thatbrough so much retribution, featured Rick Salomon, whose soleclaim to fame is the release of video showing him having sexwith Paris Hilton. During this show Stern held a sexually-oriented interview withSoloman, asking him graphic questions about anal sex. This cameonly a day after Clear Channel fired Bubba the Love Sponge fornearly the same reason. This is considered to be part of a crackdown triggered by theSuper Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. Because ClearChannel and some of its executives have donated over $200,000 tothe Republican Party, Stern claims the company was trying topenalize him for his ruthless criticisms of President George W.Bush. He endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidentialcampaign, and encouraged listeners to vote for him. On April 8, 2004, Clear Channel Communications announced itwould "permanently terminate" its relationship with the shockjock after being fined $500,000 by the FCC. However, on July 19,Stern returned to four of the six markets Clear Channel takenhim off of, and added five new ones to his list
— this time onInfinity-owned stations. In August, he returned to a fifthmarket, Miami, on an independent station. His return was greetedwith controversy as the Miami Dolphins threatened to terminatetheir broadcast deal with the station if they did not fire him. As a result of the this type of show’s offensive practices therehave been enormous fines as well as even more dire consequencesto the personalities known as “Shock Jocks” Though the fines tothese areas of broadcasting mounted up over the years in themost part the it was tolerated until era of the Janet Jacksonscandal. With this broadcast scandal - tolerance went out thewindow and in came fierce regulation of the broadcast world. Shock Jocks Turn To Satellite Radio Like satellite television, Satellite radio is not marketed toany one demographic more than any other. The concept behindsatellite radio is very basic. Satellite audio's model is abasic copy of Satellite television. XM Satellite Radio andSirius Radio both have looked at DirecTV's success and set outto attract the same market to its product. In the United States, two companies have monopolized satelliteradio: XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. XM has a100,000 Sq. Ft. broadcasting facility in Washington DC as wellas some satellite offices in New York. Sirius broadcasts out ofNew York City. They both require a person to buy equipmentranging from $200 to $500 in order to receive the signal, andthey both have similar methods for dealing with spots notconducive to satellite coverage. Originally some XM music channels had commercials, while Siriuswas commercial-free. Since February 2004 XM has 68Commercial-Free Music Channels, 33 Channels of News, Sports,Talk & Entertainment, 21 dedicated Channels of XM InstantTraffic & Weather. Sirius has 65 music-only channels as well astraffic and weather reports for major cities. XM operates on 2geostationary satellites while Sirius uses 3 geosynchronoussatellites. Both services are available mainly via portablereceivers in automobiles, but both have many accessories so youcan listen at home through your stereo, with a portable boombox,or online through your computer. Local repeaters, on the samesatellite frequencies, allow XM and Sirius's signals to beavailable even if the view of the satellite is blocked. As ofJune 30, 2004, XM claimed 2.1 million subscribers, and Siriusclaimed 400,000. Car manufacturers have been installing satellite radio receiversin some models for a few years now, and several models ofportable satellite radio receivers are available from a varietyof electronics companies Howard Stern heads for Satellite Radio On October 6, 2004, Stern announced on his show that he hassigned a five year, $500 million deal with the satellite radioservice Sirius. The deal, which takes effect on January 1, 2006,would enable Stern to broadcast his show without restrictionsimposed by the FCC. The deal would permit Howard Stern toprogram two additional Sirius channels, one of which would beavailable at an extra charge to subscribers. Opie and Anthony Opie and Anthony are hosts of the satellite radio program 'TheOpie and Anthony Show.' The show is based in New York City andairs on XM Satellite Radio. The show was previously on WNEW-FMin New York and WAAF-FM in Boston. Opie and Anthony's crudestyle of entertainment has earned them the status of the eliteof "shock jocks" The pair signed a contract with XM on August 5,2004 and started broadcasting October 4th of the same year. Theyhad remained off-the-air for about two years as InfinityBroadcasting, their previous employer, held them to theircontract as well as their no-compete clause. On XM satelliteradio, O&A are no longer bound by FCC regulations regardinglanguage and content, thus curses and pollitically incorrecthumor are common on their show. There is some concern that with the initialization of satelliteradio that mainstream media will begin to be monoplized by a fewcompanies and many radio stations go off the air. Though it isimportant to safe guard the media from monopolization of thefew, the future of the airwaves are in the heavens withsatellite radio. About the author:Reno Charlton is an experienced freelance copywriter and anaward-winning children’s author from the United Kingdom. You canread more of her informative articles on satellite radio athttp://www.car-satellite-radio.com.
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