Howard Stern taken off the air in six cities.
WASHINGTON — On the eve of a House hearing on broadcast indecency, the nation's largest radio station chain suspended shock jock Howard Stern's show, saying it did not meet the company's newly revised programming standards.
Stern's suspension Wednesday by Clear Channel Radio (search) was the second time in two days that the company has acted against a disc jockey.
The company on Tuesday fired the DJ known as "Bubba the Love Sponge," whose show drew a record fine of $755,000 from the Federal Communications Commission (search). The program aired in four Florida cities and included graphic discussions about sex and drugs "designed to pander to, titillate and shock listeners," the FCC said.
Clear Channel's announcement did not say how many of its 1,200 stations carried the Stern show, which is distributed by Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting (search) and derives most of national audience from being carried by Infinity-owned stations. The Washington Post said the Stern show had been carried on six Clear Channel stations..........
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These radio people are biting the hands--or mouths, more accurately--that feed them. They NEED to stand up to the FCC and their archaic, puritanical standards, instead of putting a muzzle on their most successful, advertising revenue-generating personalities!
Mike