Grown-Up Radio

"Public" and free broadcast (radio and TV) should be, in my seldom-humble opinion, "safe" for the mainstream, white-bread folk who can't handle grown-up stuff (kids, and childish adults).

This is why I'm increasingly happy to be a Sirius subscriber. It's like cable for my radio. There's a song in the film "About a Boy" with lyrics: 'Shake your ass! Show me what you're workin' with!" I heard it again not long ago on broadcast as "Shake it fast! Show me...!" On Sirius it goes un-edited.

I don't like what Howard Stern does, but I believe he should be doing it because many people DO (like it). But I believe he needs to grow up and join the 21st century and get onto "adult" radio ... satellite.

Clear Channel had very little option. It's a business and has to consider share-holder AND regulatory pressures. But if it were MY decision ... well, I'd tell Stern to take it to his audience on satellite and leave the airwaves to the sheep.

I don't LIKE what Clear Channel did. I support what Stern does. I just think it is a matter of right thing at the wrong place ... like crapping on your mother-in-law's front lawn. Hey, if you gotta go, ya gotta go ... but not THERE.

If there were no viable options to broadcast, I'd be mad as hell.