Radio's bad boy kisses FCC rules goodbye in $500M deal

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2004 | by Peter Johnson, David Lieberman and Mike McCarthy

NEW YORK -- After telling his morning radio fans that he'll bolt to Sirius Satellite Radio in 15 months, Howard Stern reflects on the move in a phone call.

He swears just once during a 15-minute conversation Wednesday.

Stern uses a single bathroom adjective to describe his dark mood lately as the specter of huge fines against him and Infinity Broadcasting by the Federal Communications Commission has prompted censors to crawl all over his top-rated syndicated show.

Otherwise, he's a model of propriety.

"Satellite radio became a business today," Stern says. "When radio's biggest star voluntarily takes himself off terrestrial radio and an empire, you know it's the real deal. I'm saying to the medium, I'm saying to the industry, I'm saying to my fellow...

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