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- From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
- Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal Article
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:24:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.222453.29659@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.043711.2660@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.043711.2660@netcom.com> jest@netcom.com (Jeff Stieglitz) writes:
- >
- >Here's something that was in the Wall Street Journal this
- >morning:
-
- > "He personalizes all the commercials and gives our product
- >credibility," says Dean Shulman, vice president of sales and
- >marketing at Brother, a unit of Japan's Brother Industries, which
- >
- i've always found stern's endorsements to be rather unconvincing. his
- plugs about how great the sponsor's product is tends to sound a bit
- perfunctory.
-
- > Major national advertisers don't seem to have problems
- >sponsoring Mr. Stern's somewhat tamer weekly half-hour cable
- >television show, "The Howard Stern `Interview,'" which began
- >
- of course there's not much of an audience for the show so i'm sure
- that the ad rates are dirt cheap.
-
- > Curiously, while Mr. Stern remains a target of the FCC, his
- >antics haven't attracted calls from listeners to boycott his
- >sponsors. But a new effort may be coming.
- >
- i find it kind of hard to find a lot of logic in the fcc's seemingly
- selective targeting of stern when a lot of shows on television discuss
- some of the same topics. i saw a couple of cnbc's "real personal" programs:
- one dealt with female sexual issues and spent some time talking about
- vaginal lubrication; a second show had a hooker and a gigolo on talking
- about their jobs, or whatever you want to call them. the hooker was the
- same person who was the "prize" on stern's 'hooker price is right' skit
- on his tv show. even 'saturday night live' has taken to using terms like
- "masterbation" in their skits. i kind of doubt that they would have done
- so had stern not done it first.
-
- of course, there should be no doubt that cnbc would treat sexual topics
- differently than would stern but to make an issue over style of presentation
- when obviously the subject itself is not the matter [or else i think that
- cnbc, and a lot of other shows would have gotten nailed by now] smacks of
- hypocritical puritanism. how long do you think before jimmy swaggert
- preaches about the "evils" of stern's show?
-
- > In a companion decision, the FCC allowed Infinity to buy three
- >more big radio stations for $100 million. That decision could put
- >the Howard Stern Show on more stations, although the commission
- >
- clearly all the fcc attention is free advertising to stern and probably
- increased ratings. i don't personally listen to his show because i think
- you have to spend too much time listening to hear a few funny comments and
- i've typically got better things to do but even i tune in on occasion to
- hear if he's saying anything about the fcc thing.
-
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