SIRIUS Satellite Radio will unleash classic unedited material from Howard Stern's last 20 years on radio starting this weekend.

Chosen from 23,000 hours of tape, these fan favorite moments will include unedited interviews with such memorable guests as Paul McCartney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, Sylvester Stallone and Sam Kinison.

In addition, bits featuring famed impersonator and past longtime Stern show regular Billy West will air throughout the weekend, as well as classic prank calls, song parodies, live musical performances and much more. The material will be played 100% unedited and censor-free... the way it was meant to be.

The all-request special begins Labor Day Weekend, airing Friday, September 1st at 3pm ET and will run through Monday, September 4th at 12 midnight ET on Howard 100. Simultaneous West Coast broadcasts will also be heard on Howard 101.

In case you missed it, here's a video of Artie Lange's appearance on David Letterman last week.

HotMovies.com is kicking off a multi-week promotional campaign with Sirius Satellite Radio and The Howard Stern Show, called the "Ho-Deo" starting on September 5th. The promotion asks listeners to ride the Sybian - a lovely machine that has been host to several of Howard Stern's female guests, including Jenna Jameson, Carmen Elektra, and Jenny McCarthy.

Howard will invite five to seven female listeners to ride the Sybian in the next few weeks. Of those chosen, the contestant who stays on the longest will win $5,000 courtesy of HotMovies.com.

In addition to running on live broadcasts and replays on Howard 100 & Howard 101, Sirius will work in conjunction with Playboy Radio to have Playboy Sexperts drive subscribers to the Sirius Playboy Radio webpage where they can register to win a $500 gift certificate from HotMovies.com.

HotMovies.com is a pay-per-minute adult website - with fees starting at 8 cents a minute - where visitors can watch more than 45,000 adult titles in streaming (or download).

[Press Release] 

Thomas Cipriano, better known as Captain Janks from The Howard Stern Show, got through to CNN's "The Situation Room" yesterday. Janks was posing as Wendy Hutchens, a California woman who claims that five years ago she had detailed chats about the death of JonBenet Ramsey with murder suspect John Mark Karr.

"Wendy Hutchens is joining us on the phone right now," Wolf Blitzer told viewers. "Wendy, thanks very much for doing this. Tell our viewers how you got involved with John Mark Karr." The fake Wendy, being impersonated by a man mind you, explained that she met Karr through a relative.

"So then what happened after that?" Blitzer pressed. "When did the E-mail, when did the talk of JonBenet Ramsey begin?"

The fake Wendy answered: "It started around September of 2001, when he told me that he knew more about the JonBenet Ramsey case than what anybody else had known - and that he was instructed to kill JonBenet by Howard Stern."

"All right. Well, that sounds like we've just been Howard Sterned, as they say," concluded Blitzer.

[NY Daily News via SSG]

That's what this New York Daily News article would lead us to believe. According to Rush & Molloy, Howard Stern fans are in such an outrage - after he skipped out on the funeral of Gary Dell'Abate's father - that they're threatening to drop their SIRIUS subscriptions.

Allegedly, fourteen-thousand people have express their distaste on Stern Fan Network and Chaunce Hayden has declared Stern "A-hole of the Week." (Note to the Media: The mere mention of Chaunce Hayden instantly reduces the validity of your news piece.)

SFN is quick to bring up that the numbers are bit skewed in this report. At the time of posting this the thread in question was viewed 19,214 times.

Now don't misunderstand me. I personally would never miss the wake, or the funeral, of a close co-worker/friend... but I figure the numbers should be somewhat accurate if it's to be reported on.

[New York Daily News via Gawker]

Filling in for Scott Ferrall, who is currently on vacation, Crazy Cabbie makes his return to the airwaves tonight at 8pm on SIRIUS' Howard 101. Cabbie - who was released from prison on July 27th - will be Ferrall's substitute on both today's show and tomorrow's show.

Crazy Cabbie will be joined with former K-Rock dj Brad Maybe. When asked whether he would have Cane in to recreate the Cane & Cabbie Show (from K-Rock), Cabbie said that Cane just signed with XM and they won't be able to do that.

Tune in tonight @ 8pm and tomorrow, August 16th, @ 8pm to hear Crazy Cabbie on Howard 101 (ch 101).

Howard Stern was the #2 highest-earning celebrity in 2005 - second only to Steven Spielberg - according to a report released in yesterday's Forbes magazine. Stern pulled in a total income of $308 million last year, compared with Spielberg’s $340 million.

Howard's income of $308 million comes to a meager $588 per minute. Compare that with XM's Oprah Winfrey who had a total income of $230 million in 2005, or $454 per-minute.

[Forbes via Radio Ink]

The duo played a clip of Stern saying that Letterman's "people" called his agent to see if it was okay to book Opie and Anthony, and that he could have said no but didn't. O&A in turn challenged Stern to "do it!"

On his SIRIUS Satellite Radio show, Howard Stern told his audience that Letterman "asked me how I felt" about the booking, and that the booking came after "a lot of pressure from a certain person" at CBS. Stern claimed that Letterman's staff "weren't into it. They were feeling a lot of pressure."

"Howard says a lot of things that can't be confirmed. We are telling Howard, do it ... go ahead, get us off of Letterman, you lying sack... he thinks he has power over CBS and David Letterman," Anthony Cumia said.

Opie added "his listeners need to know that he's full of shit... We’re begging him to do it because we know it’s just a bunch of crap.”

[via AllAccess] 

UPDATE: Listen to audio of this here (MP3)

Howard Stern will be available to SIRIUS Satellite Radio without any contractual restrictions for an aggressive fourth quarter marketing campaign, and Mel Karmazin intends on using him.

"Howard Stern is mobilized for an aggressive campaign in the fourth quarter for Howard to bring on some of the fans that he had, that have not yet made the conversion to satellite radio. So unlike last year in the fourth quarter, we did not have Howard Stern officially selling for us. This year we will have Howard selling for us."

While he didn't specify exactly what Howard will be doing, Mel did turn up the hype-machine with:

"This will be the first holiday season... where the best salesman on radio is going to be selling subscribers for us."

While Howard hardly sat idly by in promoting his move to satellite radio in 2005, there's little doubt that Stern will be an integral part of SIRIUS' holiday season promotions.

[via Billboard Radio Monitor]
[Transcript by Seeking Alpha]