News Bits for 3-14-2007

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 4:45 PM
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FCC Chairman Kevin MartinNews bits, links and all-around malarkey for this Wednesday...

  • FCC Chairman Kevin Martin appeared before a House subcommittee on telecommunications today. (Did anyone watch this? Holy snooze-fest. That's time from my life that I will never have back.) [FMQB]
  • Video: Why an XM / Sirius Merger Doesn’t Even Matter (Warning: extreme cheese ahead... but he does have some good points) [Gizmo Cafe]
  • Slacker's No Slouch - Forbes gives their take on the whole Slacker situation. [Forbes]
  • UBS think iPhone touchscreen technology is a stepping stone "mega-platform" (i.e., will spread to iPods, iMacs, Tablet Notebooks). I think they're right. [AppleInsider]
  • XM Satellite Radio Acura 2007 Twelve Hours Of Sebring Fact Sheet [Auto Racing Daily]
  • "The most trusted news in radio" seems to think there's no new-media competition  [Hear 2.0]
  • Opie and Anthony Traveling Virus 2007 kicks off at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas [FoundryMusic]
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LV Traveling Virus Lineup

Confirmed Lineup:
Jim Norton
Joe Rogan
Louis C.K.
Frank Caliendo
Bob Kelly
Rich Vos
Otto & George
Ralphie May

Compared to "Sterns" Comedy Tour.
I know i know, Stern has nothing to with it, beyond sponsoring it. Spin it another way.

http://www.killersofcomedy.com/

thank god stern has nothing to do with the killers of comedy.

outside of rogan not much there.

Isn't that a picture of Harry Potter?

For chrissakes my youngest kid is older than this squirt. Glad to see the hands of Satrad are in such wise hands.

Damn no Carlos Mencia (or is it Ned). The show would have been funnier if Joe and Carlos got to be on the same tour.

"thank god stern has nothing to do with the killers of comedy."

Click on the Sponsored by Sirius logo. See where it takes you.
Outside of Rogan. Yeah, your definitely a Stern fan.

"outside of rogan not much there."

You're kidding, right? Not a single comedian Howie has on as a regular or guest even comes close.

1,500 seats? How the hell do you spin that? There are 8 comedians and O&A showing up themselves and only 1,500 seats? They weren't that confident huh? The westcoast are not their strong point. Artie Lange sold out Carnegie Hall in one day and they seat 2,804. You want to talk about who has more influence? Is Bob Levy part of the cast of the Stern Show. What a brainwashed cunt. Yech.

LOL @ the Stern-obsessed XMScott, right out of the gate with a lame swipe at Howard.

Are we a bit touchy there, princess? Maybe feeling a little defensive because of O&A's shitty ratings?

Go listen to the b-b-boys and make yourself feel better. Maybe they'll do something "original" like waxing a staff member, or holding a film festival, or - I know! - coming up with yet another groundbreaking do-something-with-the-homeless bit!!

sPrEd da vIrUz!

Thank you for the link Ryan. I can't the nap inducing speech you must have endured listening to Kevin Martin of the FCC before the House subcommittee. I didn't watch, only read about it from people like who did watch it. For that I think you and other journalists like yourself for taking one for the team.

"Compared to "Sterns" Comedy Tour. I know i know, Stern has nothing to with it, beyond sponsoring it. Spin it another way."

Geeze it gets funnier each day. keep up the one way war, maybe daddy will pay attention to you after the merger.


p.s. i put money on the fact that artie sells more tickets then this whole tour combined (got no proof but i bet it's true).....

We can definitely tell the O and A fans from the Stern fans here, it's all too obvious! It might be a small venue but that has nothing to do with their ratings. Their ratings are very interesting because in some places they're up, others they're down, and philly? hmmm nobody seems to know. But honestly, the Stern fans aren't gonna go and the O and A fans will. This never-ending war between the Stern and O and A fans doesn't really serve much of a purpose but I gotta say it is damn entertaining reading.

Jorge - Why would O&A need to spin 1,500 people? They know they're not that big in Vegas and wanted to go somewhere warm. Who cares if they're playing it safe. And what does Artie selling 2,800 tickets in NYC have to do with anything? O&A sold 12,000 for the NYC Traveling Virus last year in NYC too if you just want to bring up numbers.

Hey, hey. Lets not forget the three people that saw Artie's movie now.

Mark, talk to me when Norton sells out Carnegie Hall in a day.

"Hey, hey. Lets not forget the three people that saw Artie's movie now."


LOL so that is 3 people and 1 movie more then O&A or anyone on O&A will ever see? i hear it was closer to 125k, but hey whats a little exageration between friends.

Guess one day, since they are so much better then stern and artie that O&A will have a 100m dollar movie and his side kick will be in movies and have sitcom deals right? right?

Howies movie didn't make anywhere near 100 million. It topped out at 37M. Not too good for the "king of all media" in his prime. And lets not forget it was a faggoty chick flick. What successful movie or TV show has Artie ever been in? Dirty Work? Mad TV? And I like Artie but getting on the Stern show is the only big thing he's ever done. Of course he's going to do movies, Howard's show takes 5 months off a year, he has plenty of free time. And making a good movie that people want to see is different than making shit and bilking the Stern show fans out of their money. And why would O&A make a movie? They are radio guys, not actors. And their sidekicks have been in movies and sitcoms just like your crush, Artie.

Hey, when's the remake of Porky's coming out? Howard's been talking about that for over 5 years now.

PFreak, when did Norton sell out Carnegie Hall in a day again?

Jorge - What is your point exactly? That Artie sold out Carnegie Hall in a day? If so you've said that over and over and over, we get it. Norton sells out most places he performs so what if he hasn't played at the Carnegie Hall...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Parts_%281997_film%29

about 42m gross. but did i anywhere say "stern made 100m" or did i say "when are they going to make a 100m dollar movie" and you just figured i was talking about stern's movie.

factor in the 18m for rentals
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119951/business

Factor in the foregin gross which is about 10% on average for rated R movies.

so at least 60m not too bad for a movie that cost 20-25m...

of course that is still 60m more then your heroes.

"PFreak, when did Norton sell out Carnegie Hall in a day again?"

lol lets not even talk about what others on that show have done and what they have sold out.

keep up the good research PFreak.

I never said it did badly I just said it wasn't the 100m blockbuster you implied it was. And yes, you did imply it, sorry to call you on it. Nice to see your own research backs me up. Now you didn't respond to the rest of the post did you? Because you know it's true.

back on the vacation thing again huh? suprised you did not throw in a HOO HOO or something

we've been through this.

porky's....?


"your crush artie" hmm but you sware i was a stern zombie? now i am a artielover?

yep everything artie has been in has been crap i will agree with you there. but....Does not matter how bad the shit artie has been in, he is still a bigger star right now then O&A. face it.


BTW you said 38 i said 100..it was about 60. so i was 40 over and you were 22 under(tho i never said stern movie made it but ok i will run with it)

... but at least i am willing to admit when i am wrong and back it up with data, you sir are just a O&A zombie that makes stern zombies look good.

Ahh PNess,

The movie grossed $38m in theaters. I didn't think we needed to look at rentals to help inflate the not-nearly-as-good-as-Howard-would-have-you-believe numbers but apparently you did. So I was right and you needed to find another revenue source. 100m movies make that during their run, not by adding in video rentals.

Artie's a bigger star than O&A? You're right again, he really is one fat bastard.

And again, where's this "Porky's" remake? Come on, Howard has been talking about how great it's going to be for years. How about "Howard Stern - The High School Years"? Another project that has gotten nothing but lip service for over 5 years. He's your hero, defend him. You don't admit when you are wrong, you throw false info out there and then try to act reasonable when you get called on it. You are a chronic liar.

And are you 50+? You really sound like the old man you like to listen to. You don't like anything new because it scares you. You'll be screaming bababoey to the grave, you old bore

If you tack on 54 million worldwide box office to the 41 million it made in the u.s., it comes to 95 million total. looks like technically pness was off 5 million and retard was off 57 million. of course i'm wrong and nobody counts world wide box office right retard?

Jim Norton
Joe Rogan
Louis C.K.
Frank Caliendo
Bob Kelly
Rich Vos
Otto & George
Ralphie May

Let's see, you have the big stars Opie and Anthony, Joe Rogan was on Fear Factor and is an announcer on the UFC stuff, Frank Caliendo was on Mad TV, Louis C.K. is a brilliant comic that had his own HBO show, so did Bob Kelly with the talentless Dane Cook and they can only sell 1,500 tickets? That's sad for O&A.

Proof that Artie is bigger than O&A:

Artie is playing at a bigger theater in Florida! 2,296 seats to be exact. And all the help he's getting is from the Killers of Comedy. Go ahead O&A zombies, spin this one! BRAINS! BRAINS!

Of course he's playing a bigger theater, he's a huge fat fuck.

Talk about spin, Artie's a popular comic but he doesn't even come close to selling the amount of tickets the OA tour sold last year. That's a fact, similar to the fact that you have the name of a Brazilian AIDS victim.

PFreak = Zombie

he trys to call everyone else one, but fails to ever provide any detail or proof of his post. i just respond because its fun as all hell to know that he will look silly after each response.

fa fa do you have a link for overseas? i could not find one. i would not worry because PFreak will just say something stupid about your mother or something when he runs out of things to say.

50...well i am closer to 50 then 20...sad to say....

PFreak has been destroyed again with facts.

Yeah PNess, you sure make me look like a silly goose. You still haven't responed to the points in my post. You're like a magician with your slight of hand.

Posting links is meaningless unless you consider the source. Like the ass that posted that HD radio spent $230 million last year then linked the number to the HD radio PR site. Or maybe you could post a link from Howard's website fanboys claiming he's the greatest. That would make it a fact huh? Or FaFa, with his 20 year old nickname posting a link to Amazon of all places. Yeah, Amazon's where I go for accurate news and info. How about Wikipedia, a website that allows users to edit search results? I see that one posted all the time.

You said it all when you said closer to 50. Just like Howard's fan base. His fans are growing old and dying, no one new and young is discovering his show because it's a milquetoast borefest.

I picture you listening to Howard, eyes closed, remembering a better time when you were leaning against a Trans-Am, mullet blowing gently in the breeze, listening to DLR era Van Halen and talking to your friends about how cool Howard was throwing cheese slices at some strippers ass.

O&A have brought in a little over 700,000 subscribers to XM according to Eric Logan (source: http://media.putfile.com/5-million), and Stern has brought in over 2 million subscribers to Sirius (source: http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2007-01-09-stern-bonus_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA). If the merger happens, Stern would have 3 million people listening to him (source: http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/bridge-takes-a-look-at-xmsirius-merger-impact.html).

Spin that you asshat. Ooooh, having real sources is innacurate. Spraying zombie bullshit is more accurate. Lower your head in shame PFreak.

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