From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
Subject: Re: Chicago blues
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:41:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.182252.27537@cbfsb.cb.att.com> 5rtrtrt@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (richard.e.stealey) writes:
>>     It's been two weeks so far here and Howard hasn't had a new episode yet.
>> Does anybody know if the Stern show has been cancelled or are they 
>> on vacation?
>> going to be in a movie called The_Adventures_of_Fartman. Can anybody confirm
>> this or was he just joking. He also said that he's gonna leave his t.v. show
>> and make the movie which should be done within three years. 
>
>Howard and WWOR could not come to terms for renewal of the tv show so
>it was dropped.  Howard says he cancelled it.  WWOR says they did.  Who
>are you going to believe?  Howard is going to concentrate on the movie, 
>but I think he plans to have it done in a year.
>
>Since you are in Chicago, I understand that there is an excellent substitute
>for the Howard Stern show called  
>
>           ****  This Week in Joe's Basement   ****
>
>(groan)    Why did I say that????
>
and it's a good thing that you did i might say.  for those of you who
have written me to ask for a tape of the guy's stuff why don't you
correspond to joe directly?  i don't really save shows per se but i
have some episodes on various tapes that i just haven't recorded
other stuff over them.  so to pull together a compendium of episodes
would take a bit of effort on my part.  i don't remember his address
off the top of my head but i've posted it here before.  don't forget
to ask about his 50th episode party this weekend.

anyway, as far as the "chicago blues" bit goes, maybe he currently listens
to jonny b. on wlup...the show is *so* bad, it would make anyone blue
(that is, assuming active brain cells are present).  imho, stern would be
a definite improvement.  but i don't have to tell you, you've probably seen
the tragic "jonny b. on the loose" so you can get an idea about the radio
program from that.  however, i'm sure that stern is asking for pretty
steep bucks for the chicago area (fortunately, i don't think the bible
toters are keeping him out of this area) such that local station (radio)
operators here might not be willing to fork over.  i don't know how much
of an audience stern drew in the chicago area with his tv show, but i've
got to suspect that anyone considering carrying his radio show in this
area would consider stern's tv ratings in their decision.  of course, since
they carry that TOTAL MORON rush limbaugh here, i'm at a loss to think
of a good reason to not carry stern.

speaking of the tv show, i'm not willing to believe that the show is
really dead.  it seems that stern has had this theme going as, imho,
a gag for some time.  remember his "april fool's" show in which someone
came on at the start of the show (who said he was the general manager
for wwor) and announced that because of "differences" between the station
and howard stern, the show was to be cancelled and replaced with the "russ
salzberg show."  hey, it was a gag!  wake up people!  you can't believe
everything stern says (at least not literally)!  i still find it hard to
believe that wwor would just axe the show.  while i don't know how stern's
show ranked against other wwor programs, i sure can't think of any show
that they carry that would pull a comperable audience.  my suspicion was
further fueled by a rather odd reference to an animated version of the
howard stern show that is to premier this fall (this was prior to the
first of the "post cancellation" reruns).

so, don't throw in the towel on the show yet.  and those of you who don't
have a life other than watching his show, hang in there, don't commit
suicide yet, i think you'll be getting it (your worthless life, that is)
back.  in the meantime, i'm gonna keep watching:

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	(name censored so i don't flamed for mentioning the show again)

i've got a question that might pertain to something on the radio program.
andrew 'dice' clay is coming to the chicago area later this year on his
"cocked and loaded" tour (or so it was called in the ad i saw).  has dice
been on stern's show lately?  has he given any hints about what his current
tour is about?  in the late 80's dice was pretty hot and did some good
shows (e.g. "the diceman cometh"), but by the time "dice rules" came
out the act was starting to get a bit stale.  does he have some new stuff?

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