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scotchandcigar

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He has a scant 125,000 listeners per day, sources say. It used to be 20 million one they say. Sirius doesn't know how many people are listening to 100. A friend and I are not being counted.
Where do you see 125k? It's all estimates, but surveys put it at 12% of SXM subscribers, or 4 mil. Other estimates are around 3 mil.
 

Kryptonite

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He has a scant 125,000 listeners per day, sources say. It used to be 20 million one they say. Sirius doesn't know how many people are listening to 100. A friend and I are not being counted.

There is no way he got 20m consistent. Taylor Swift got 1m in the first 15 minutes of that podcast being released.

Sirius had about 6m in 2006. Do we *really* believe that over 2x that many eventually came to Sirius for Howard following the big FM exodus in 2006?

Saying Howard has 20m subscribers is like saying over 125m people watch The Last Of Us on HBO Max.
 

Kryptonite

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What the fuck indeed. A later show today. Maybe they already fired him or he won't return at all.

1) Howard's contract ends 12/31/2025. It's always been set up to end that way. All this talk about him being fired or out of contract is crap. I don't believe it. He would have to have been fired after the Lars Ulrich interview and that math doesn't add up. The hype stuff started before the interview.

2) The rumor going around is that Walter the cat died and that's why he's not on.
 

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The star's radio show once drew about 20 million listeners weekly. Still, reports now suggest his SiriusXM audience has dropped to as few as 125,000

Related:

I started the site because of my love for the Howard Stern show. That love has become 'like' over the past few years. I can't say I love the show anymore.

There are a few things I don't enjoy listening to and I find myself getting aggravated far too often. I can't sit and type any more 2 hour long celebrity interviews. I don't want to type the phrase ''Howard answered a knock at the door'' ever again. I want to have the freedom to turn the radio off when I hear an awful Jon Blitt bit.

I'm not at the point where I'm going to stop listening to the show completely. I still appreciate Howard's interviewing skills. There are interviews I'd rather not sit through though. Now I can pick who I want to listen to and who I can turn off. I've forced myself to listen to a few celebrity interviews I wish I could have walked away from.


 
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The Chiefs play tonight in Brazil. Nationally, the game is on YouTube. Due to NFL rules, the NBC affiliate in Kansas City will also have the broadcast.

I'm sure Richard's father is happy he can just tune to "regular NBC" tonight. I can't imagine him having to turn to YouTube via his TV, but maybe he's smarter than I give him credit for.
 
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Listening to 1/15/2003. Artie did a Playboy photo shoot. Looked it up.

Howard Stern's on-air sidekick Artie Lange came out from behind his radio microphone to take center stage in Playboy's Midtown Manhattan studio recently when he photographed gorgeous Playmate Lindsey Vuolo. After it was all over, a barely clad Lindsey turned the tables (and the lenses) on Artie to shoot him for his own hilarious pictorial. Feast your eyes on Arties' pictures that are so wild they might cure Stuttering John's speech impediment. Plus, check out behind-the-scenes photos, video from the shoot and Lindsey's hilarious cheesecake photos of Artie.

NSFW: Pics | PlayboyPlus
 

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I'm listening to 1/21/2003 and Howard and Gary are talking about the "special tape", a VHS tape of two girls going at it that they say is the greatest porn ever created. I did a Google search and couldn't find much about it.

I did find this 2005 article at howardstern.com:

In a stunning revelation, resident perv Richard Christy confessed to braking his “no pleasuring himself during the work week” rule last night. Christy described a “perfect storm” scenario of having to make copies of one of Gary’s special porn tapes, looking at the new issue of Penthouse for an upcoming guest, and the fact that yesterday was Valentine’s Day as the “extenuating circumstances” for the break down. Christy said that the “special tape” – a lesbian porn tape a fan sent in years ago of two, probably amateur, girls going at it – was the straw that broke this camel’s back though. He said he couldn’t get through five minutes of it without taking his right hand out on a date.

And thanks to MarksFriggin, when I get to 1/27/2003, this will be discussed:

Howard told the guys that Beth wanted to know what he was pleasuring himself to while she was away. He said he showed her the ''Special Tape'' that he watched and they ended up having sex during that. Howard said that Beth thought the women in the tape were pretty good looking and she understood why it turned him on.

My question is, well, quite obvious.
 
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Kryptonite

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Howard is off the week of 2/2. There's various NFL/Super Bowl programming all week on Howard 101.

At 10:20am ET, they played the 2019 interview with Alan Roach.
 

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This is someone's best guess:
 

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Listening to the 3/13/2003 show. Howard is playing Stuttering John's interview on Jay Leno after he did "I'm a celebrity get me out of here".

One of the other celebs on the "I'm a celebrity" show was Bruce Jenner. Gary commented that no one under 30 knows who Bruce Jenner is. Boy, that's about to change! In four years, everyone will be Keeping Up With....