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Article: Shock jock Howard Stern tunes out FM with Sirius Satellite Radio deal.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 7, 2004
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Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 7--Radio motormouth Howard Stern pulled a shocker yesterday -- inking a five-year, $500 million deal to move his raunchy show to Sirius Satellite Radio in 2006.
Stern told his listeners that he's sick of being censored by the FCC, and can't wait for the freedom of satellite radio.
"I was dying because the same material we put on 10 years ago, we could never put on today," Stern told the Daily News. "They edit the crap out of it. Even the stuff we've put on two years ago we can't do today."
The shock-jock pioneer has made a career out of taking risks, pushing standards ...