My apologies, folks. I started writing this post two weeks ago and I just didn’t have a chance to finish it. Two weeks ago Howard Stern and his crew went on vacation (again). This was the week of President’s Day. I was shocked – what was the reason for the vacation THIS time?!
It is absolutely amazing how much these guys go on vacation! It’s funny because Howard Stern used to be a show that was about people trying to make it in the real world. Now it’s a show where the crew has every Friday off – how many folks in the working world get that? Not many… Now it’s a show where the staff has some 8 weeks of vacation each year (if not more). How many people have THAT luxury at their job?
Listen, I understand that Howard and the gang have earned these perks at this point in their legendary careers. But when they ask me to pay thirteen bucks each month to listen to a show that has 10 minute commercial breaks (mostly filled with smutty commercials) when he advertised the satellite service as being “commercial free” during his last year on terrestrial radio (check the tapes), I sort of expected more. I understand the need for commercials on satellite talk radio since they have more listeners than the music channels – fine, no problems there. But why do the commercial breaks have to be ten minutes (or more!) long?
But I digress…
What WAS the reason for the vacation two weeks ago? Did the crew celebrate President’s Day for an entire week? Seriously, does anyone know what the deal was with this vacation?
“Energy Savings Week” 🙂
I wana email this blog to stern, think he’d pay any mind to it?
Energy Savings Week was the best. Such a scheme!
I suppose you could e-mail it to Stern, but I doubt that he’d pay any mind to it. I think that he views the listeners’ complaints as more of an annoyance more than anything else.
Hey Joe,
Stern has all the time off in his contract. As for the crew, they work fridays from what is said on the show. They do not get all the vacation time either. That is for Howard Robin and Fred,
It’s understandable that at this point in their careers they would have this time off, but I just don’t understand the point of taking that particular week off. Was it a week-long celebration of President’s Day? Why not take an extra week off in the summer when you can at least lay on a beach for a while? It confused me (still does).
I would think it might be to take advantage of his daughters having those days off.
It’s not like all the subscription money goes to him. That $14 gets you a zillion different stations. A pretty sweet deal if you ask me.
I think it’s great that he gets all this time off, the guy’s definitely earned it like you said. Hell, if somebody was gonna offer me a swank deal like that, you’re damn skippy I’d take it. Besides, it’s not like his day ends when the show signs off. Dude’s always working on something.