Stern is crude and vulgar. Should have stayed there.

Folks in Toronto were not fans, either, That explains his rather brief presence on Q107 many years ago.

Nov. 23, 2001:

 

I've been listening to Stern and company this past couple of weeks while having a trial period of Sirrius in my new delivery vehicle at work. He only does live shows Monday and Tuesday now. After he goes off air, I switch to 101 which features segments of past shows, until I just can't take it anymore and put on something else that exhibits actual intelligence.   His schtick is still to be as vulgar as ever, and now can use any fowl language and sexual innuendo. That still amazes me to this day that it is allowed . 

I would listen to the unedited version of Stern on WBUF.

paterson1 wrote:

I know he is/was popular but I never understood why.  Maybe I should have given him more of a chance. When I listened to him on Q I found Howard boring, talking about himself and his ratings all the time, crude for the sake of being crude and his humour is a style a I don't find that funny.

Robin was ok, she was like the female version of Ed McMahon and would laugh at everything the boss said.  And those long, long commercial breaks were a big turn off.  Always thought he was mostly a mouthy guy with opinions and not much else.  Nothing really unique about that..

Stern benefited from a huge amount of free national publicity when he first appeared on Q and CHOM in Montreal.  The ratings started off strong but tailed off due to his style and I think many just got tired of him and his predictable schtick. 

Agreed re the long commercial breaks. I listened to the Stern Show on Q in my high school years (late 90s/early 2000s) and it seemed like forever before the breaks would end. Also have no idea how much content we missed as a result of the Canadian airings being delayed and edited on the fly. If I remember correctly, someone once took Stern's 9/11 show, both the original airing and what aired on Q, and put a background tone on whatever was chopped from Q's airing. A real eye opener as to how heavily edited the show was, even during history in the making.

bmaudioworks wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

I know he is/was popular but I never understood why.  Maybe I should have given him more of a chance. When I listened to him on Q I found Howard boring, talking about himself and his ratings all the time, crude for the sake of being crude and his humour is a style a I don't find that funny.

Robin was ok, she was like the female version of Ed McMahon and would laugh at everything the boss said.  And those long, long commercial breaks were a big turn off.  Always thought he was mostly a mouthy guy with opinions and not much else.  Nothing really unique about that..

Stern benefited from a huge amount of free national publicity when he first appeared on Q and CHOM in Montreal.  The ratings started off strong but tailed off due to his style and I think many just got tired of him and his predictable schtick. 

Agreed re the long commercial breaks. I listened to the Stern Show on Q in my high school years (late 90s/early 2000s) and it seemed like forever before the breaks would end. Also have no idea how much content we missed as a result of the Canadian airings being delayed and edited on the fly. If I remember correctly, someone once took Stern's 9/11 show, both the original airing and what aired on Q, and put a background tone on whatever was chopped from Q's airing. A real eye opener as to how heavily edited the show was, even during history in the making.

I had heard that Sterns show was hardly ever edited at Q.  I don't know about the tape delay or how that worked.  The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, CRTC and Q107 apparently had received many complaints.  This had been ongoing since the debut of the program.  By the time any editing or delaying of programming on air started, Howard Stern's show was already on a long downward slide.