Goodbye Howard
Fudge. I am really pissed about this recent turn of events. In a complete retarded move, LM Communications has decided to drop Howard Stern from RepubliTalk 96.1. I really enjoyed listening to Howard in the morning, probably more than I can explain. I'm so mad that I'm completely boycotting all their stations, one of which happens to be my favorite music station B92. I never listened to anything besides 96.1 and 92.1, but now I'm SOL. I'm asking all of my friends to stop listening to their stations as well, and if possible to call and complain. Tell them you're boycotting their stations. The contact information for LM Communications is:
LM Communications
1300 Greendale Rd
Lexington, KY 40511-8710
(859) 233-1515
Please call them and tell them how upset you are about dropping Stern in the morning. And they replaced him with Imus! Fucking Imus! Jeebus! This whole thing makes me sick to my stomache. Here's the blurb from Howard's site:
GOODBYE KY
A fan from Lexington, Kentucky called in early in the morning all upset because the show was not on. He said they were running Imus' show in Howard's place. Howard said he hadn't heard anything about being dropped from the Lexington station but he wouldn't be surprised. He knew that once he signed his deal for SIRIUS this sort of thing would happen and so far, he's been right. First it happened with Citadel, then in Miami and now apparently Lexington. Howard said he felt really bad for his fans who go to tune him in like they do each morning only to find Imus instead. Howard said he was amazed that they'd replace him with Imus because Imus also works for Infinity. No one really believed him when he said this kind of thing would happen, but he knew. He said that the industry is freaking out and feeling threatened by his departure. Howard said he really believes that SIRIUS is the future of radio and it will eventually become the dominate force in the market. But that will take years and, in the mean time, it makes no sense to Howard why any station would alienate their audience these have. Howard said that when stations take him off with no warning the only people they are hurting are the listeners, not him. Howard said he is only leaving radio because the government has become too oppressive and the broadcasters are the ones letting it happen. So Howard going to satellite is a big F You to the government. Howard promised he'll get to the bottom of the Lexington situation.
[Lexington Update: Gary finally got in touch with someone at the Lexington affiliate by the end of the show. He was informed that the station was in the middle of changing formats and even though Howard's contract with them isn't up until February 1st, they decide to go ahead and remove him earlier. When Gary asked why no one here was informed of the move, the guy he talked to said that the decision was made last night and then quickly got off the phone, claiming there was a problem in the engineering studio. So it looks like the fans in Lexington are joining the growing list of markets who can't listen to the Howard Stern Show….for now anyway. Of course, the entire country will be able to listen to the Howard Stern Show on SIRIUS satellite radio starting in January 2006 at the latest!]
At least we can still get shows via bittorrent. Better late than never. If anyone else wants to get shows, the tracker is up here. This is a really good site run on a shoestring budget, so please leave your downloads open and donate if possible. If this site goes, we're really out of luck (until satellite anyways).
I got two awesome programs lately, Skype and Picasa from Google. Skype is an online voice chat program that works really well. The client is similar to popular IM clients and very easy to use. If everyone with broadband would get these headsets, we could all talk for free. I supports conferencing with up to 5 people, and will allow calls to regular phones for a small fee. Picasa is a free image organizer/photo album similar to Adobe Photoshop Album. It's really slick and I highly recommend it if you've got a digital camera. It's got a Macintosh feel to it as far as UI, and a lot of handy manipulation tools (resize, rotate, redeye reduction, etc.) The only thing it doesn't do automatically is upload to Flickr, but I imagine that Google and Flickr consider themselves competitors. Oh well, it'll automatically post to your blog. Check it out...
So I went through a giant riggamaroll over the last three weeks trying to replace the remote that originally came with my receiver. It was multifunction and controlled everything flawlessly until it busted. I had already lost it and had to replace it once (for fourty damn dollars), so I wasn't about to do that again. Actually the orignal stopped working with the receiver, but worked for everything else. Naturally I figured that the IR receiver in the amp had broken, so I had it fixed under warranty. In the process of fixing it, the remote disappeared. So the amp came back and I ordered another remote, and everything was basically fine. I say basically because something inside the receiver wasn't working correctly - anything hooked up via digital sound wouldn't work normally. I had to turn on ProLogic II to get sound. This wasn't a problem before - it would just downmix to audio or use dolby if it could. Anyways, it was basically working, and the same thing happened - the remote stopped controlling the receiver. By some odd twist of fate, we dropped the remote and it physically broke, so we bought another multifunction. Much to our surprise, it worked on the receiver. So I imagine that at the very beginning, the remote was what was bad, not the receiver. Had I just tried another remote, I probably could have saved a lot of trouble. Anyways, after getting this new multifunction, we realized it wouldn't control the cable box. I exchanged it for another, which wouldn't control the receiver. I exchanged that for another, which wouldn't control anything. Finally, I purchased an "All For One" brand remote which seemed to do the trick. The reason I purchased this one last is because it's damn ugly. So if you ever need a multifunction remote, save some time and get an All For One. I think they put out the first multifunctions, and they appear to have won the Pepsi Challenge.
LM Communications
1300 Greendale Rd
Lexington, KY 40511-8710
(859) 233-1515
Please call them and tell them how upset you are about dropping Stern in the morning. And they replaced him with Imus! Fucking Imus! Jeebus! This whole thing makes me sick to my stomache. Here's the blurb from Howard's site:
GOODBYE KY
A fan from Lexington, Kentucky called in early in the morning all upset because the show was not on. He said they were running Imus' show in Howard's place. Howard said he hadn't heard anything about being dropped from the Lexington station but he wouldn't be surprised. He knew that once he signed his deal for SIRIUS this sort of thing would happen and so far, he's been right. First it happened with Citadel, then in Miami and now apparently Lexington. Howard said he felt really bad for his fans who go to tune him in like they do each morning only to find Imus instead. Howard said he was amazed that they'd replace him with Imus because Imus also works for Infinity. No one really believed him when he said this kind of thing would happen, but he knew. He said that the industry is freaking out and feeling threatened by his departure. Howard said he really believes that SIRIUS is the future of radio and it will eventually become the dominate force in the market. But that will take years and, in the mean time, it makes no sense to Howard why any station would alienate their audience these have. Howard said that when stations take him off with no warning the only people they are hurting are the listeners, not him. Howard said he is only leaving radio because the government has become too oppressive and the broadcasters are the ones letting it happen. So Howard going to satellite is a big F You to the government. Howard promised he'll get to the bottom of the Lexington situation.
[Lexington Update: Gary finally got in touch with someone at the Lexington affiliate by the end of the show. He was informed that the station was in the middle of changing formats and even though Howard's contract with them isn't up until February 1st, they decide to go ahead and remove him earlier. When Gary asked why no one here was informed of the move, the guy he talked to said that the decision was made last night and then quickly got off the phone, claiming there was a problem in the engineering studio. So it looks like the fans in Lexington are joining the growing list of markets who can't listen to the Howard Stern Show….for now anyway. Of course, the entire country will be able to listen to the Howard Stern Show on SIRIUS satellite radio starting in January 2006 at the latest!]
At least we can still get shows via bittorrent. Better late than never. If anyone else wants to get shows, the tracker is up here. This is a really good site run on a shoestring budget, so please leave your downloads open and donate if possible. If this site goes, we're really out of luck (until satellite anyways).
I got two awesome programs lately, Skype and Picasa from Google. Skype is an online voice chat program that works really well. The client is similar to popular IM clients and very easy to use. If everyone with broadband would get these headsets, we could all talk for free. I supports conferencing with up to 5 people, and will allow calls to regular phones for a small fee. Picasa is a free image organizer/photo album similar to Adobe Photoshop Album. It's really slick and I highly recommend it if you've got a digital camera. It's got a Macintosh feel to it as far as UI, and a lot of handy manipulation tools (resize, rotate, redeye reduction, etc.) The only thing it doesn't do automatically is upload to Flickr, but I imagine that Google and Flickr consider themselves competitors. Oh well, it'll automatically post to your blog. Check it out...
So I went through a giant riggamaroll over the last three weeks trying to replace the remote that originally came with my receiver. It was multifunction and controlled everything flawlessly until it busted. I had already lost it and had to replace it once (for fourty damn dollars), so I wasn't about to do that again. Actually the orignal stopped working with the receiver, but worked for everything else. Naturally I figured that the IR receiver in the amp had broken, so I had it fixed under warranty. In the process of fixing it, the remote disappeared. So the amp came back and I ordered another remote, and everything was basically fine. I say basically because something inside the receiver wasn't working correctly - anything hooked up via digital sound wouldn't work normally. I had to turn on ProLogic II to get sound. This wasn't a problem before - it would just downmix to audio or use dolby if it could. Anyways, it was basically working, and the same thing happened - the remote stopped controlling the receiver. By some odd twist of fate, we dropped the remote and it physically broke, so we bought another multifunction. Much to our surprise, it worked on the receiver. So I imagine that at the very beginning, the remote was what was bad, not the receiver. Had I just tried another remote, I probably could have saved a lot of trouble. Anyways, after getting this new multifunction, we realized it wouldn't control the cable box. I exchanged it for another, which wouldn't control the receiver. I exchanged that for another, which wouldn't control anything. Finally, I purchased an "All For One" brand remote which seemed to do the trick. The reason I purchased this one last is because it's damn ugly. So if you ever need a multifunction remote, save some time and get an All For One. I think they put out the first multifunctions, and they appear to have won the Pepsi Challenge.
posted by matt at 4:49 PM
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SKYNYRD 2008!!!!
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