Stern is coming

Perhaps realizing that it's not a good idea to keep Canadians from listening to the world's most popular radio shock-jock even though they owned the rights to his program, Sirius Radio Canada is going to begin airing the Howard Stern show this Monday:

Howard Stern is coming back to Canada.

Satellite radio operator Sirius Canada announced Wednesday that the self-proclaimed king of all media will begin broadcasting in this country on Feb. 6 as part of the company's 100 channel lineup.

Mr. Stern made a much-publicized jump from FM radio to satellite early this year, with the broadcast of his first show on the U.S. service in January.

Sirius Canada, which launched its service in December, had not previously been carrying the Stern program.

Sirius officials said Wednesday that adding Mr. Stern to the Canadian lineup falls in line with their commitment to offer Canadian subscribers “the most variety and choice available in radio.”

If this gives massive anxiety attacks to the people at the CRTC, well, I'm cool with that. (hat tip: Paul Canniff)

Posted by damian at February 2, 2006 09:08 AM | TrackBack