Does anyone listen to howard stern anymore

Its obvious that he should have backed his old friend Trump, even though he might have disagreed with him on many subjects.

By backing Clinton, Stern gave up his a seat at the Trump table, where he could have steered Trump the right way in so many things. Instead, Stern chose his new rich Hamptons elitist friends over his old friend Trump and now Stern has become a joke in the radio industry, with such a huge missed opportunity.

Stern demonstrated that he really has no loyalty to anyone and he will probably die alone, as many of the liberal elites often do, with their fair weather friendships, flighty attitudes and their disconnected opinions. They have forgotten what it is to be a working stiff. Stern could have closed out his career with something of great note.

He could have even been head of the FCC if he had stuck with his old friend Trump, but he chose to bow to his liberal-elite friends from the Hamptons and forgo what could have been his great swan song.

Trump even asked Stern to speak at the Republican National Conference on his behalf, but Stern took the cowardly way out and passed on the offer. Stern was told that he would have had complete control of the narrative and could have done something extraordinary with the end of his career, but he chose the lazy, gutless path that will find him in the footnotes of history, rather than at the forefront of change. What an amazing exit to his career it could have been, instead of complaining about the world, he could have actually made a difference and done something about it.

Instead he is still doing penis jokes and saving cats, one of which is quite commendable, the other one is still pretty funny — but what a waste when you look back. It was mass staff firings and if you were listening to the radio that day, you never heard about them. Nothing but business as usual, but everyone was canned. If you tuned into the The Howard Stern Radio Show on any the fateful days when any of those Howard Stern Radio departments were completely axed and all staff were fired, you would think that everything was normal at the show, because they did not speak of the great staff culling.

In true Howard Stern fashion he said nothing to his listeners, keeping them in the dark as much as he could, instead they found out the gory details later in the newspapers, especially in the Page Six column of the New York Post. When Howard fired the entire Howard Stern News Team on February 10, , one could argue that it was probably appropriate to handle it in a quiet fashion, but the non disclosure agreement that he made all the parties sign, never allowed them to ever discuss the matter with anyone, as their severance would be cut.

To the casual listener, it is not clear why, but one day all the staff were there at the show and the next day they were all gone and absolutely no mention of it on the show. To long term fans that loved the show because of its honesty, this is starting to sound less like The Howard Stern Show and more like life in North Korea, where people disappear and no one speaks about it.

Shuli Egar and Jon Leiberman were fortunate to find other gigs at the show, but the news team was no more. Steve Langford, Ralph Howard and Mike Hambrick were all fortunate to get out before the axe fell, but the axe did fall, and it fell hard. What listeners came away with was more uneasiness on how secretive Stern was becoming and how well that he controlled the narrative following any significant events on the show. Even then he might not address it. Stern controls the microphone, so he also controls the narrative.

The attractive quality of the Stern of old that was that he was open and honest, but that was long gone and now the new Stern is all about secrets and lies. It is nothing less than a travesty the he was in fact a liar or he just became one over time.

When Stern first started his radio career, he would broadcast 5 days a week for 6 hours — that is a lot of work and he must be commended for it He kept up this pace for many years, but now the show only only tapes 22 original shows a year and the show does an awful lot of rebroadcasting.

Often the shows are repeated without any indication that is an old show at all. Stern often adeptly steers celebrities away from material that he knows will get stale and dated in reruns, so he can keep rebroadcasting the show for years. There are often weeks when Howard does not broadcast an original show at all, so it comes as quite a shock to actually hear a new show. Fans are never quite sure if a show is up-to-date, or an old show repackaged or re-purposed for consumption by unsuspecting listeners.

Many listeners have objected to paying extra to Sirius for the Stern Show if it is just a month of reruns, but Sirius denied giving anyone a discount, because they still have some money troubles of their own. It happens every time like clockwork at the end of his contract. Howard says he is not going to renew his contract with whatever the radio station he is on and yet always renews. He uses the negotiation to leverage more money and control out of the network and just makes himself lazier each time.

At each negotiation he thinks he is a genius as he negotiates less shows and less compelling content for even more money. Each round seems like another nail in the coffin of the history of The Howard Stern Show , or HSS as it is commonly known, but Howard still has no shame.

It is now clear that Stern does not have any real friends. He certainly does not treat his old acquaintances very well, and that may be down to his inability to be loyal to anyone. It is also true that many celebrities have paid dearly for things they have said on The Howard Stern Show and Howard is more than happy to get the ratings at their expense. One such celebrity, Crazy Cabbie, ended up doing two years in prison for blurting out that he had not filed taxes for a few years.

But, the second Cabbie was in trouble, Stern got the hell out of there, not wanting to be associated with him anymore and banning him from the show. It seems that Stern is all too happy for the radio ratings, but like a fair-weather friend he is gone whenever there is trouble. Lange stated that the were just not friends off the air, which infuriated Stern that the truth was being told.

The Stern of old just did his thing and the ratings came. This new Stern is clinging to the ratings and it really does not become him. He has become a sad version of his former self. But at least he has his hot wife and his cats. In a fun bit that the Stern Show does once in a while, some secrets about staff members are discovered and then the radio team play with it for a while with guessing who has what secret.

In June The Howard News Team went above and beyond what was normal research and discovered some very delicate secrets about one of the team members.

So shocking were the secrets that Stern would not allow them to be broadcast on the show. This is pretty dangerous ground for a show that prided itself on honesty that now it self-censors its own content. It appears that Stern has now transformed into the very personalities that he has always hated. In a seemingly perpetual rotation, the on-again off-again promise of the The Howard Stern Musical on Broadway seems to rear its ugly head every year or so on the show.

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Howard Stern is irrelevant At least, this is what some of his ex-fans turned Joe Rogan fanatics claim. After all, part of this group tends to be the fans who have abandoned Howard's show due to the fact that the host has gone from a personal and creative transformation since his shock-jock days.

Obviously, Howard still loves his gross-out humor, controversial rants, and isn't beyond a faux-pas, especially in the age of cancel culture. But, he's certainly not the outright offensive entertainer that built his empire. Of course, Howard was smart to evolve creatively. Even Joe said so on his podcast. This is because when Howard moved to the uncensored world of satellite radio, where there was no reason to send the corporate suits and advertisers quivering.

There's no value in being shocking with no consequences. Instead, Howard decided to keep what worked, mainly inappropriate and hilarious staff antics and added, what has gone down as, some of the best celebrity interviews in entertainment history. The man just knows how to get information out of people And, if Howard's ex-fans could see past their own disdain, they'd notice that Howard is actually in the news almost every week Because every celebrity who goes on his show gets plastered on the front page of every publication due to some revelation Howard got out of them.

Of course, Howard is also relevant due to his vocal political stances As every reader likely knows, the two strongly disagree on the value of vaccines. And Howard seems to have science on his side despite his over-simplification or his downright brutal comments about those who choose not to get vaccinated. Ironically, the same acid he recently spewed at the unvaccinated is the same energy many of the same people claim he's lost. Because of his ability to change and stay loyal to his most dedicated fans as well as his ability to open the door to new ones, Howard's audience remains in the millions.