Howard Stern says "Canadian government hates me"

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Posted by Jayx1 on Feb-06-2006 21:18:

Howard Stern says "Canadian government hates me"

he might be right!

quote:
JOHN MCKAY
Mon Feb 6, 11:53 AM ET

TORONTO (CP) - Howard Stern says the Canadian government hates him.

The infamous American radio shock jock's Sirius satellite radio show made its Canadian debut Monday morning with a lengthy discussion about the Super Bowl followed by the usual raunchy fare. But Stern also informed listeners it was the first day his show was airing on Sirius Canada, nearly a month after his U.S. debut.

"That whole Canadian Sirius thing is weird," he said. "Like on the one hand they want us because they know that we sell radios, but on the other hand they kinda want to keep us low-key because the Canadian government hates us."

His on-air sidekick Robin Quivers observed that the Canadian carrier didn't want to have to field expected complaints from listeners.

"I mean they gotta embrace it," Stern replied, adding that his Howard 100 news department was looking into the situation.

Stern also put a caller on the air who said he was listening in Canada but via the grey market, meaning an unauthorized receiver picks up the U.S. signal after the customer provides a fake across-the-border address.

The talk show, which airs on the Howard 100 channel, had no shortage of profanity and political incorrectness. There were also commercials despite Sirius being a subscription-based service.

The self-proclaimed King of all Media was dropped by CHOM-FM in Montreal in 1998 and in 2001 by Q-107 in Toronto after thousands of complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council - the industry's voluntary watchdog agency.

Sirius Canada has said it does not expect Stern to run into censorship trouble this time because his satellite show is a pay service and has developed special lockout technology for customers.

But a spokesperson for the CRTC has said that any abuse of human rights under the Broadcasting Act would still be investigated if there are complaints.

Sirius Canada is 40 per cent owned by the CBC, 40 per cent by Standard Radio and 20 per cent by Sirius in the U.S.

Stern announced last year that he was jumping from conventional radio to satellite to avoid the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He's also taken potshots in the past at Canadian regulatory bureaucrats he said lacked a sense of humour.

Posted by DMUZIK on Feb-11-2006 04:13:

man I would have bought that shii just to hear him

STERN IS LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Posted by Stingray on Feb-11-2006 04:34:

I was at my mechanics place today and he had Stern cranked.

I love his show.

Posted by VERTiG0 on Feb-11-2006 07:32:

Eh, who cares.

I listen to Opie & Anthony on my dad's XM and it's funnier than Stern in pretty much every way. They hold NOTHING back.

Posted by activate on Feb-12-2006 02:04:

everything he said about the crtc is true.

Posted by E*Master on Feb-12-2006 04:53:

Howard Stern Rox. Why would people still complain if he was on Satelite radio??? It's private!!! You pay for the radio. So if you choose not to listen to him change the fuckin' station! Don't want your kids to listen to him? Snatch the Serius radio away from them. Is it so damn hard??? Don't get me started on the CRTC. No EDM radio because of it (and Z103.5 Does not count!!) this is why I have serius so I can hear EDM 24-7. I am so glad that he is on Sirius Canada! This way I don't need to Download Howard anymore from torrents.