John Podhoretz nails it over at the Corner this morning. Stern must be paying Moonves to sue him. Since Stern doesn’t apparently want to make his new bosses at Sirius ‘the man’ due to his fat paycheck, his stock options, and his obvious fawning over how great they all are, Stern needed another ‘the man’. And glory be!, his old bosses can still be ‘the man’ if he can just get them to sue him so he can play the martyr even longer for his fans that apparently never tire of the gag.

But I guess it is the same people who also believe politicians who go around claiming that they ‘will fight for you’.

Youi and Jpod have your heads up your asses if you really believe Stern paid Moonves to sue him for fraud.

For over 20+ years, Howard has talked about what happens in his life: from his ex-wife’s pregnancies, a miscarriage, sex life or lack of one during the making of his movie, a brief foray in one-night stands, to his now relationship with Beth. Talking about his job- from being annoyed by the dumps for excessive use of the word “bitch”, to commenting on company policy such as cutting back the comission of the sales department, and the well-known confrontation during his WNBC days which was shown in his movie. When Infinity picked up Stern in the 80’s, they knew what they were getting.

CBS is like the whining brat of a kid during recess. When his team is losing during a kickball, he cries “No fair. You cheated” Once Stern’s contract with CBS was over in December ‘05, he is no longer responsible for what happens during the morning shift at K-Rock, or his other affiliates.

The only personality DLR has developed in this poorly thought out FM radio experiment is that of an incessant blatherer. Also, does he even have a staff? He’s got the guy that jams out with his guitar between breaks and Animal, whatever it is he does. Thus the DLR show has no personality and therefore no one will get that connection and want to listen. Did no one at CBS who is managing the DLR show realize this simple fact? I no next to nothing about radio and yet I’ve got more of a clue than they do.

There is no substance in this show. Pray for a quick death.

they might be able to claim it, but it wont hold up.

CBS put Stern on two huge CBS shows - 60 Minutes and Letterman - right before he left knowing full well that he was going to talk about Sirius. they heard him talk about Sirius aka “eh eh eh” for a year on their radio air.

anyone who turned on Stern during any point of last year would know within minutes that Stern was leaving censored radio and going to Sirius. and everyone knew that Stern would benefit if Sirius was successful once he got there.

this is CBS being lamer than normal and being whiny babies because they are in last place in LA and 13th place in NYC. CBS is doing far more for Stern now than they ever did when he was around.

this is the farewell party that Stern never got from his old bosses. nice work, douches.

“We are also obligated to make substantial stock-based incentive payments under the agreement if we significantly exceed agreed upon year-end subscriber targets during the term of the agreement, or acquire material amounts of subscribers during the term directly and trackably through Stern’s efforts. ”

CBS might not have liked this, but they cannot claim, as they have, that they were unaware that Stern had any financial incentive to plug his new employer. From the moment Stern signed the Sirius contract he had incentive to advertise his move, regardless of the date of the payout. Again, CBS was aware of this but chose to keep him on the air.

There is an important part of this agreement which is not shown above. The filing states that the contract commences on Jan 1, 2006. CBS has every right to believe that the accelerated payout was only for efforts taken during the term of the contract (i.e. Jan 1, 2006 through Dec. 31, 2010). Since Stern is getting an accelerated payout for his efforts from 2004-2005, which is before the contract commenced, CBS has every right to claim that he used his position at CBS to make additional profit by promoting Sirius.

Well, yes, I did. I’d suggest you read the document filed with the SEC by Sirius on 10-6-2004 (address: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908937/000095011704003548/a38488.htm).

Please note the following line from the filing:

“We are also obligated to make substantial stock-based incentive payments under the agreement if we significantly exceed agreed upon year-end subscriber targets during the term of the agreement, or acquire material amounts of subscribers during the term directly and trackably through Stern’s efforts. ”

CBS might not have liked this, but they cannot claim, as they have, that they were unaware that Stern had any financial incentive to plug his new employer. From the moment Stern signed the Sirius contract he had incentive to advertise his move, regardless of the date of the payout. Again, CBS was aware of this but chose to keep him on the air.

Stern could not have been more open and the network could have stopped him anytime.

Wrong.

CBS didn’t know about the incentive deal at that time. Did you? Had Infinity been aware of the incentive deal (which Howard was apparently obligated to disclose, but chose not to) they would have had every reason to disallow his promotion of Sirius on their airtime. Since he intentionally kept them in the dark, their response was different. The stock payout for subscriptions that Sirius credited to Stern prior to 1/06 means that he worked to fulfill an incentive term with Sirius prior to the end of his contract with Infinity.

But they didn’t. And the reason for that is apparent: They wanted to eek every last rating point out of Stern because they knew that once he left, they’d be screwed.

Why is this wrong? Isn’t that their right under the contract that they had with Stern?

Funny, Howard now wants to rip Infinity, but Infinity gave Howard the outlet to become what Howard has became. It’s easy to forget, but few companies had the balls to take the risk Infinity did back in the day. As much as I liked Howard, I really think Howard owed Infinty better. He could have been a bit more classy, but instead really stuck it to Infinity.

O&A for the win.

Stern was on the air for over a year talking about Sirius. For most of that year he called it “eh eh eh” to work with CBS in not “promoting” the sat system.

If CBS felt uncomfortable with Stern’s content (and high ratings, and high ad dollars) during that last year they could have easilly released him from his contract - something Stern asked for nearly every single day.

Instead theyre acting like pussy ass bitches because their grand scheme of replacing the king of all media with two dudes whove never done morning radio has blown up in their face.

its clear, CBS is sick of Pajamas Media being the biggest laughingstock in “media”.