Michael Harrison
Michael Harrison
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All across the board, most of the major companies have enacted some type of hard-core rules that basically set the record straight that the talent has to take every opportunity to keep indecency off the air, ... slightest infraction.
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You've just got to go out and play with the pieces you have. Right now, every team's trying to keep going, every team knows this is it, so you're going to get everybody's best effort. Nobody wants to go home.
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You're in a dark, quiet room, there's nobody there, and you may not get your first ratings for a year. If you don't enjoy the process, you're not going to get the instant gratification. Radio is not fulfilling to an ego that needs instant excitement and a loud crowd.
I think it's just that we come out a little too comfortable, a little too loose.
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Historically, it's been hard to make the transition from radio to television and from television to radio. They involve different psychologies. But he's a talented guy, and I think this is a smart way for him to go.
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Replacing Stern on the radio is like replacing John Lennon in the Beatles. And it's even harder because Roth has no radio experience.
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Remember, talk radio is show business and it's not considered a breaking of the rules to play the show-business angle.
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God is going to make sure what is to happen, happens, ... irregardless if you recognize it or not.
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If someone had come along and instantly maintained the ratings that Howard Stern had, that would have been looked at as the second coming of Christ,
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Half of (the dilemma) has been caused by technological advancements and affordable portable technology, ... and the other half has been the corporatization of radio. It has taken away from the excitement of diversity, that every market was so different.
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He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman. He's definitely one of the top radio personalities in America. He's doing very well in syndication.
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He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,
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He is irreplaceable. Stern is one of a kind, among the very, very small handful of people that were THE broadcasters of the 20th century ? and carrying into the 21st.
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He has to be considered one of the broadcasters of the 20th century. Within a couple years, in large part due to Howard Stern, FM will be dominated by talk.