Restrictions On Sirius!

[Subnet76]

Rumor has it that Sirius had made guide lines, and apparently Howard Stern, must follow these as well. The question I have. Being I must pay for satilite, (which im getting ready to have activated) the reason Im moving over is because of the FREE speach. Being able to say whatever one wants and I mean anything. Thats one thing I want to hear. Also, I hear that satilite has no commercials. But indeed I also hear that there are commercials on some stations. (Howard for instance) Just want all of your input on this. I dont want to make a mistake and get a year agreement and it turn out to be FM, just with more channels. Thanks!!

[DAdamsKX]

Rumor has it that Sirius had made guide lines, and apparently Howard Stern, must follow these as well. The question I have. Being I must pay for satilite, (which im getting ready to have activated) the reason Im moving over is because of the FREE speach. Being able to say whatever one wants and I mean anything. Thats one thing I want to hear. Also, I hear that satilite has no commercials. But indeed I also hear that there are commercials on some stations. (Howard for instance) Just want all of your input on this. I dont want to make a mistake and get a year agreement and it turn out to be FM, just with more channels. Thanks!!

Howard does have commercials, though significantly less than when he was on terrestrial radio. This week he addressed the questions over "guide lines." Howard said he is self-censoring ... Sirius has no control over his content. It's his show. He says and does what he wants. It's the best entertainment I've ever heard on radio. And when he's not on the air, the music channels are superb. All are commercial free. I don't find the sound quality quite as good as FM (but then I'm receiving the signal through an FM radio). But any degredation of audio is overcome by the quality of the content.

[RiseStar]

I believe that it can reasonably be argued that there is a limit to free speech. He is perfectly allowed to express himself and his views without doing it in a way that many would view as excessive and over the top.

I might imagine that they hope to bring him to canada as well so they are trying to keep his shows as civil as possible without censoring him.

[Daved64]

THERE HAVE BEEN NO LIMITATIONS SET!
If you heard him, he laid it all out. no meetings, no nothing. Case closed.

[superstar221]

While Sirius has absolutely no guidelines for Howard to follow (except for they cannot perform illegal acts inside the Sirius studio), Howard has (intelligently) decided to have the ability to censor his own show. This is because of....hypothetically....
A caller says, while onthe air, "I'm going to kill...(insert name, person, president, etc....) then he and his show will be looked at as a responsible entity that could (or should) have prevented something terrible or slanderous....and I could only assume that with the size of Howards contract that there would be a clause where, since Howard has absolute control, that he would also be responsible for any liability in lawsuits or legal action (accept for "physical" acts happening inside the actual studio.....those types of actions are permittable on the radio, but must be done at a different location....if you listen to the show you will know what I am talking about)!!!!!!. The censoring is a form of self-protection, not of censorship in the FCC type.
I will say that Howard having a Friday show bi-weekly is quite the disappointment....as he got a huge contract and a bunch of people got sirius to listen to him....and then he decided that he needs three day weekends to spend all of his money....