An even BIGGER Philly radio shift

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

The real translation is "You have to pay for Howard now, but we're still free!"

The REAL translation is "Howard's done nothing the last few months but broadcast one long commercial for Sirius, so before he pulls some Sex-for-Sam-level stunt to go out with a bang from terrestrial radio, we're pulling the plug abruptly and putting in some stopgap filler."

I mean, really, does anyone see Adam Carolla or David Lee Roth as a long-term morning radio staple? Not hardly. They're being put into an impossible box where the ratings will drop substantially from Stern's, Stern's Legion of Loyal Mooks will harass them endlessly, and something else will take their places n months into the experiment. Locally, if you were to Google the phrase "We have no one better to put on," Paul Barsky's picture should be the first hit, and he knows it; I tuned into a few minutes of him this afternoon and the overriding theme was "Please don't hurt me, I didn't do it." He's being paid to take a bullet in the ass while Infinity tries to figure out what to do next.