Earlier this week, I discussed how some media retailers utterly biffed the top of the Howard Stern Present on Siruis XM radio. For too many causes, they insisted the present was coming to an finish. As a substitute, Sirius renewed Stern’s contract for an additional three years.
That put up led a buddy who’s an trade veteran (Fox, Bloomberg, NBC) to share a broadly missed facet of The Stern Present: How modern the know-how it developed was.
Many issues we take with no consideration as we speak had been created for numerous incarnations of his E! present:
“A scarcity of appreciation — a Moore’s Regulation byproduct, I suppose — that anybody has for a way tough it as soon as was to movie three headphone-wearing idiots sitting round EV microphones.
When MSNBC launched Imus within the Morning on TV, it was a feat of broadcast engineering spearheaded by a staff of savvy technicians at NBC. Folks fail to understand simply how tough it was again then to account for all of the technical limitations of broadcasting reside on two totally different linear platforms for a number of hours each day.
A few of those self same engineers designed the studio for Imus on Fox Enterprise, and it was forward of its time (Circa 2008)…it wasn’t Apollo 13, nevertheless it was actually modern.
When Stern did the cope with E! for the late-night cable TV replay, it was a game-changer and possibly one of many first tangible examples of Video on Demand profitability from a day by day/reside program. It’s really easy today to arrange two iPhones, stream it into the cloud, then pull down the footage to edit and push to YouTube — however discover me the one influencer/on-line content material guru who acknowledges simply how a lot Stern (and Imus) paved the way in which for them to not have an actual job?
I suppose in music, a guitarist of as we speak’s classic would acknowledge the contribution of previous eras….Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, and so on., however with the proliferation of on-line content material, everybody dwelling excessive off digital advertisements and hundreds of thousands of views appears to have forgotten who made all of it attainable…”
It is extremely simple to take issues with no consideration and never understand the place all of the great, enabling know-how we use originated. The early days in each area had been stuffed with intelligent folks working with restricted budgets and cobbled-together-tools to do and create issues that had by no means been finished earlier than…
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No person Is aware of Something, Howard Stern Version (December 30, 2025)
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