Howard Stern...you either love him or you REALLY REALLY hate him! Can you guess which side of the fence I fall on? However, my personal feelings aside, I can not deny that he has helped to shape radio as a mass communication and in part, has aided in the evolution of radio jocks. Before Howard, there had never been someone so blatantly pushing the envelope as far as the "rules" of what is appropriate or inappropriate for radio communications. It is because of his blind "courage" if you will, that his name is a household name known by nearly everyone!
So why is his popularity so speedily dwindling? Why didn't his followers ACTUALLY follow him to satellite radio? Well there are actually a couple of good reasons:
1.) People are LAZY by nature, especially Americans: No one want to have to switch their daily routine around to listen to Howard Stern! Howard is, at best, someone you listen to for a quick laugh, or a cheap joke. And is it no big surprise that no one followed him, because there is such an abundance of radio jocks that can provide the extract same cheap jokes and quick laughs without having to go through the trouble of switching to satellite radio.
2.) Everyone only take so much of him!: Howard Stern is not a personality that can be taken in big doses, and in fact, it could be argued that it might even be detrimental to a listener's health to listen such crap everyday! In addition, he is the type of personality that once the novelty wears off, whats really left? Not much!
3.) Too much of an inconvenience: Somewhere between finding out what satellite radio is, how to get it, operate it, finance it, and then install it...continuing to listen to Howard Stern doesn't seem to have the appeal it once did.
So whats going to happen to Howard Stern? Honestly, I don't know, and if anyone did know...well, then he wouldn't be Howard Stern! Somehow, I think he will pull through this, reinvent himself again, and find yet another way to shock us!
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