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Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern,news.answers
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From: njs@scifi.uucp (Nick Simicich)
Subject: [alt.fan.howard-stern] FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about Howard Stern, Monthly Posting
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The following is a major revision of the Howard Stern FAQ. Last
revisions on 1-1-94. I'd like to find a keeper for the station list.
This newsgroup was formed so that fans of Howard Stern can discuss the
happenings on the show, the comings and goings, and other activities
of Howard Stern. Some folks don't like Howard Stern. We know that.
You don't have to take time out of your busy schedule to tell us that.
The answer here is the same as Howard's answer: If you don't like it,
turn the dial, switch bands, change the station, find another
newsgroup. In particular, we recognize that there are many tastes and
many other radio personalities. If you have a personality you really
like, do what I did with Howard: Start a fan group for them. Leave us
out of it.
Frequently asked questions about Howard Stern:
1. Who is Howard Stern? (Frequently heard from NONUS folks.)
1a. Howard Stern is a radio personality. He came to national
attention in the USA while working in New York, and currently
resides there. He also had a syndicated TV show, and an interview
show on the E Network (a US Based cable channel). He is
frequently labeled a 'shock jock'. Your immediate thought might
be, "Oh, like xxxxxx (insert name of local shock jock in wherever
you are)." No, xxxxxx is like Howard Stern. He has been around
for years, he is well known, and chances are that this week xxxxxx
is doing whatever Howard was doing last week. If xxxxxx has the
balls. And more and more people, throughout the country, are
finding this out.
2. What station does Howard Stern's TV show play on in my area? Or, I
heard that Howard's show was cancelled. Is it true?
2a. Howard's original TV show is in reruns, or off of the air.
Depending on who you listen to, it was cancelled, or Howard quit.
I personally believe (and heard this version, once, on-the-air)
that WWOR Channel 9 wanted Howard to do it for the same money he
got the prior year, and Howard wanted a bigger budget and more
money. Channel 9 folks decided that they couldn't give Howard
more money *and* make any money on the show, they wanted to cut
the budget. So Channel 9 executives wanted to put themselves in a
good light by claiming that they fired Howard and made such an
announcement.
If you get the E Network on cable or satellite, you should now be
able to get Howard's new talk show. Unfortunately, I don't.
Howard's contract with E is up, and there may be no new shows.
3. No, I can't take it. I have to have Howard on my TV. Is there
any way?
3a. No, other than the E show. But Howard has announced a PPV for New
Year's Eve. He is currently interviewing women for a $50,000 top
prize beauty and 'talent' contest. (This is now over. But there
will be either bootleg or official video tapes.)
4. Where can Howard be received on the Radio?
4a. Currently, he broadcasts, daily, from WXRK, K-Rock, 92.3 FM from
New York City. This signal is good enough to cover most of New
York City and the surrounding areas. This signal is simulcast in
Philadelphia (WYSP-FM, 94.1), Baltimore (on WJFK-AM 1300), and
Washington, DC (WJFK-FM, 106.7 FM), and is simulcast in LA and
then rebroadcast on tape delay when morning drive starts. The LA
times and frequency are: 97.1 FM KLSX from 3 to 6am live, and then
tape delayed from 6 to 11am. The LA rebroadcast is extra long
because they insert (yech) traffic reports and local stuff.
Howard's show is still spreading. He is in Las Vegas, Cleveland
(WNCX 98.5), Dallas (KEGL, 97.1), and Chicago (but no longer).
There is also 103.9 FM (Q104) in Albany, and Rochester, NY.
Howard claims that many more stations would carry him but for the
FCC's vendetta against him.
WWKB from Buffalo, NY (1520 AM) carries Howard starting at 6 AM
Eastern Time. This is a 50,000 Watt clear channel station, and
reception reports seem good. In the winter, look for him there.
Howard is on in New Orleans, on station WRNO-FM at 99.5.
In Boston, Howard is on 104.1 WCBN from 7 PM to 11 PM (do they cut
the show off after four hours?)
The latest addition is El Paso.
Howard is not on shortwave unless someone is pirating his stuff.
AM is Medium Wave (MW) for you nonus folks. I'm not very good at
keeping this list up to date, and if someone else wanted to post a
radio list, I'd appreciate it.
Finally, you may be able to get Howard on cable. Several of these
stations have satellite uplinks (including WXRK) and your cable
company may rebroadcast them on the FM band, perhaps at a
different frequency. I understand, for example, that in San
Diego, Daniel's Cablevision reboradcasts the LA station that
carries Howard at 98.5. Consult your cable company for
information about hooking your FM receiver to your cable.
5. I'm not in any of those places. Is there a satellite feed for
WXRK?
5a. No, WXRK used to be broadcast by SCPC on Hughes Galaxy 2 channel
03, at about 57.5, according to Mark Geyman. I'm told, on GEnie,
that WXRK's uplink is now in digital form, and can't be received
as SCPC anymore. Can anyone confirm this?...This has been
confirmed. If someone can tell me how this digital feed might be
decodable, I'd be greatly indebted.
6. How can one be expected to figure out who is who among the
regulars on the show?
6a. Listen for a while. Want to take a shortcut? Here is an effort
to explain:
Howard Stern - The head of the asylum. The ruler of the roost,
the King on NY Radio, and All Media, and other points.
Robin Quivers - Howard's sidekick. Officially his news reporter,
she is also the confidant and instigator in many cases, and also
(occasionally) feeds him lines from the privacy of her news
studio. Her news reports normally consist of reading the paper,
and a few things that are put together by her interns. None the
less, the news reports are frequently the most entertaining part
of the show, as Howard comments on everything.
Fred Norris, King of Mars - Fred handles sound effects (paints)
and also keeps the show on schedule. When Howard started
broadcasting in NY, frequently he would just push off the
commercials for an hour. Now that they are syndicated, he has to
take breaks at regular intervals. Fred cracks the whip. He is on
the writing team. Fred also does voices for the occasional (these
days) radio 'movie' and as the Nazi in the 'Guess who's the Jew'
bits. Fred also does song parodies, and is a reasonably talented
musician.
Jackie (The Jokeman, Penthouse Jokepage) Martling - Jackie is a
comic who never quite made it big, notably because his standup
isn't very good IMHO. He writes full time for the Howard Stern
show, and makes a fair bit of money doing local appearances as
well, pushed by plugs from the show. One wonders when he sleeps.
Maybe during the show. +1 516 922 WINE gets you a schedule of his
upcoming appearances, and it is a normal toll call (no 900 style
surcharge) but has a few ads, and a few jokes. There is more than
30 minutes of material on the new all-digital line. He is also on
the writing team, as the head writer. Jackie gets two plugs a
day, by contract.
Gary (Baba Booey) Dell'Abate - The show's producer. He
arranges guests, insures that the office part of the show gets
done, and so forth. For those of you who've read Gulliver, he is
also Howard's chief flapper - he is generally the one who makes
the judgment as to whether or not someone speaks to Howard when
they call up with a beef. He is called Baba Booey after his
mispronunciation of Baba Looey, Quick Draw McGraw's sidekick on
the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show. He was buying animation cels,
and didn't know how to pronounce the name of the character,
despite professing fandom. Gary does occasional personal
appearances, for which he gets plugs. Gary has recently married.
Despite predictions, some of them mine, he is still Baba Booey.
He was making noise about registering Bababooey as a trademark
recently. He is famous for the 'repeat after me' bit. These
days, he is also 'Fa-fa'fooey, sa-sa-smelley, and so forth.
John (Stuttering John) Melandez - Hero of the stupid. He was a
paid performer on Channel 9, officially on WXRK he is just an
intern. He is paid in notoriety [supposedly he is now getting a
salary] (he gets to plug his band appearances and occasional
personal appearances, and has gotten a record contract because of
his connections. John has been signed by Atlantic Records). and
is typically sent out to interview celebrities. The questions are
all prepared, but sometimes he gets to adlib.
Scott the Engineer - mixes tapes, inserts the bleeps so that you
can still hear the cursing in the background, and is hapless when
it comes to fixing the console. He is employed by WXRK as Chief
Engineer, and he is in the Union. He is making additional money
because he gets a daily plug, which he has used to build up a DJ
business. He has a number of DJ's who work for him and provide
canned music for parties, weddings (Gary was married and used
Scott's service, Rocket Entertainment) and so forth. This is
good, because Scott smokes like a chimney and I wouldn't want him
at one of my parties.
Gorilla (Gorillo, but they call him Gorilla on the show) is an
intern who wants to be a radio personality someday, but who first
needs to learn how to talk in English.
We almost never hear about Robin's news interns.
Billy West, the voice of Ren and Stimpy, occasionally performs on
Howard's show, doing various voices. I believe, for example, that
he did Marge Shott (see the sound archive) and does 'Red'.
7. How can you listen to someone who is as racist/homophobic/anti
woman/etc. as Howard Stern?
7a. You just don't get it, do you? Howard is none of those things, in
spades: He is an equal opportunity denigrator. Sooner or later he
will kick one of your sacred cows in the balls, to mix metaphors
in an udderly improbable manner. But he is still very funny.
Someone on this newsgroup once said that a lot of Howard's humor
comes from the sort of attitude that says, "Look at all of this
crap in the world around us! Isn't it wierd? Isn't it funny?
Sit in our circle and we'll let you in on the joke." Well, some
of us think that we get the joke.
8. Is Howard Stern half Jewish?
8a. Definitely. The question is, what is the other half? We have to
differentiate between the persona that Howard plays on the radio,
and the real Howard.
According to Howard's radio persona, it is not Jewish, perhaps
WASP. The half-Jewish identity may be something that Howard puts
on so that he can insult both Christians and Jews with impunity.
However, he is equally free with insults of Muslims, Hindus, etc.
It may also be something that he does to avoid anti-semitism.
Some folks on the net believe that the other half is Italian,
based on something that Howard said a while back. Others point
out that you can be a Jewish Italian, so this may have been
another joke. The Jewish half and the Italian half may well be
the same half.
It is pretty clear based on statements that Howard's sister made
on the radio that Howard, in Real Life(tm), is Jewish. Also,
Howard has recently admitted, on the air, that he is all Jewish,
and claimed that he was half Jewish to avoid anti-Semitism.
9. I want to write to Howard and tell him (what a dickhead | how
wonderful) he is. What is the address?
9a. His address is:
The Howard Stern Show
600 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Particularly vehement and stupid hate letters are likely to
get read on the air. Clueless ones well may earn a phone call.
If you really can't wait, fax him at (212) 759-KFAX.
10. How do I get a copy of "Crucified by the FCC"? I called
1-800-52-STERN, and they didn't have a clue.
10a.They never had a clue, but at one time they could take orders for
the album. The album hasn't been for sale for quite a while, and
is now a "collector's item". This just goes to prove that you
should always buy every Howard Stern premium offered, immediately.
The 1-800-52-STERN was in use for Butt Bongo Fiesta, and is now
out of service, but expect it to be revived soon for New Year's
Rotten Eve or whatever.
11. I don't get enough bababooey in the morning. I want my computer
to say 'bababooie' instead of beeping at me. I have a
Mac/Amiga/Soundblaster/NeXT box that can talk, and I want it to
talk.
11a.This (alt.fan.howard-stern) is not in the binaries hierarchy. Of
course, you can post anything you want. If various sysops notice
that this group has become a binaries group, they will treat it
like one, and those connected by phone line or concerned about
disk space may not carry it. As a hint: If your sysop does not
carry the alt.binaries tree, they are unlikely to carry this group
if it begins carrying binaries.
Jeremy A. Moskowitz <jeremym@ravel.udel.edu> has been doing some
digitizing, not only of soundbytes, but of whole songs. These are
digitized into Amiga .iff format at 11047 samples/sec. If you are
on one of these other systems, you will need to figure out how to
convert the sounds to, say, .wav format if you want to play it
with the Microsoft Windows multi-media program. If you are
interested in same, I'd like to refer you to the
alt.binaries.sounds.misc FAQ, (may also be available in
news.answers) which seems to cover this stuff fairly well.
Briefly, they recommend sox, which you can get on
wuarchive.wustl.edu. Or use your nearby archie server.
(I was able to convert the sounds to .wav format by
entering the command
find . -name *.iff -exec sox -r 11047 {} {}.wav \;
and I got oddly named .wav files that would play on my Linux
box.)
Jeremy puts the sounds onto the wuarchive.wustl.edu system in
directory /systems/amiga/boing/audio/samples/howardstern, which seems
like a heck of a good place. The howard.list file describes
the samples.
If you do want to post digitized soundbytes, please post them to
alt.binaries.sounds.misc, or alt.sex.sounds, as appropriate, and
post here saying that you've done so, and other things about the
sounds, like maybe what the message ids are or when you posted
them, or how many parts. Anything seems to go there. I've seen
whole songs posted there in 41 parts.
Also, Harry has made Stern fans a generous offer. His words:
In honor of Howard, I'm willing to offer up my machine as a
central ftp site for Howard-related items. I'll put the stuff in:
krishna.cs.umd.edu:pub/stern
This should provide a more permanent repository than uunet's /tmp.
I've copied these images here to start things off. I encourage all
the Stern fans out there to add stuff to this collection. In
particular, I would like to collect sound bites (like
"fafafoohee", or Jackie's "tragic news item" laugh, for instance)
and I'd like to see some gifs scanned in from his book, or maybe
frames grabbed from Butt Bongo (though the quality on these images
tends to suck).
If you have something to download to ftp, send me email and I'll
tell you how to do this. You won't be able to drop things off
directly, I'll have to tell you where to put them (to keep the
world at random from dumping on me).
This will last as long as it doesn't become a problem. I'd
appreciate it if you waited until the evening or early morning
(East Coast time) to get stuff, but unless this becomes a problem
I'm not going to worry about it too much.
-harry
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Spoken: Harry Mantakos Domain: harry@cs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!harry
Phone: 301-405-2750 USPS: U of Maryland, CS Dept., College Park, MD 20742
Harry already has the soundbytes above and a couple of .gifs, and
a copy of sox to convert sounds to different formats.
12. I can't believe it. Do people really strip naked in Howard's
studio, or is it a put on? Is it theatre of the mind, or is it
really happening?
12a.According to Mark Levy, yes they do. And I have it on good
authority that Howard drinks Poland Spring water (Take that,
Georgia!).
Additionally, if you can get a copy of the New Year's Eve Pageant,
there was a fair amount of 'getting naked in the studio' footage
there.
I believe that some percentage of the folks who call in are bogus,
but they are putting Howard on at the same time they are putting
us on.
13. Why is is when Howard says mini-system in that ad, that everyone
responds (exaggerating mini-).
13a.A number of years ago, there was a comedian who regularly appeared
on the Howard Stern radio show called Crazy Jerry, who used to do
'impersonations' in a flat voice, the most famous of which is,
"This is Mother Theresa speaking from the bed. God don't want me
yet, man, I got more feet to taste." Crazy Jerry brought in a
'mentally challenged' girl who had a speech impediment who used to
do the 'gina dance' (figure it out) and, when she quit appearing,
brought in a guy who did the 'peepee dance'. I suspect, from
things alluded to by Howard, that he has agreed not to replay any
of those shows, since he was convinced that the girl, especially,
didn't really want to do this stuff, but was convinced by Jerry
although she wasn't competent to make the decision.
The mini-skirt, gina dance, peepee dance, and "I love you, Jerry,"
all came from this response stuff that was done between Crazy
Jerry and his sidekicks.
(Note that this is my memory talking. There is another version of
this story in another faq which the author claims to have tape
backup for, so they are likely right. I still like my version
better. Here is the other version, verbatim:)
Q. What do you know about Gina (rhymes with Carolina) Girl?
A. In late 1988 this woman called up Howard saying she loves him and
she does the 'Gina dance. Howard sensed quickly that this
woman was a little "off" and he asked her if so- she said she's
not retarded, just "slow". She came down to the studio with
Crazy Jerry, who was not her boyfriend but more of a companion.
Well she did the Gina dance, laying down naked on the floor,
but almost no one really saw it - Howard and even Jackie
averted their eyes because she was too heavy to be appealing.
About that time Rain Man had been a hit movie, so Howard called
up Gina Girl again and got her to say some lines for his new
radio movie "China Girl," starring out of the closet Stern.
It was in this movie that she uttered the words made famous,
"mini-dress" (usually at the same time as saying "naked dance")
Howard was trying to fix up Steve Rossi and Gina Gina Girl but I
don't think it ever happened.
I have this all on tape and that's why I can give you this detail.
All the attribution I have on this is: testnet!pr@pegasus.att.com
14. What about Howard's book? Is it any good? Can I get mine signed?
14a.Yes, Howard Stern has a book out, called "Howard Stern's Private
Parts". IMHO, and in the opinion of a number of reviewers, it is
actually a worthwhile piece of literature. As I write this, it
completes its second week as #1 on the New York Times best seller
list, entering the list at #1. Howard says that he wrote it, but
he freely gives credit to a collaborator (an essay about this
appears in the book) and to his editor (who moved into his house).
There is no doubt that this is a collective effort and I believe
that, unlike some celebrity books, Howard did a significant amount
of work on the book personally, using the professionals to help
him plan and polish. I believe that it was a successful effort as
well.
There were a number of book signings. It looks like there will be
no more. Howard attracted a record number of people to his Wall
Street, NY signing (where I got mine signed, and was on FOX 5 news
that night having it signed), and signed a record number of books,
the previous record being held by Mohammed Ali, the boxer. The
problem was that the crowd was too hard to manage (according to
the police), and the police wouldn't let him sign for as long as
he needed to. It sounds like a new record was set in LA. 8000
books.
Personally, if I hadn't had mine signed, I'd mail it to the show,
with a pleading letter, and a check for $25 (since that was what
he offered a signature to the paraplegic from Cleveland for) as
well as a self-addressed, postage paid mailer. At best, they will
sign it and send it back, and at worst they will keep it (which is
what they threatened to do when they still thought that they could
have managable book signings) and you'll have to buy another copy.
Do not confuse this with the paperback book titled Howard Stern,
Big Mouth, by Jeff Menell. Make up your own mind, but IMHO, this
isn't worth wasting your money on.
15. I'm looking for a BBS related to Howard Stern.
15a.Dimnah BBS (703) 276-8060 has the Washington area's "only Howard Stern
conference. Also includes a Howard Stern fanclub. .gifs and .bmps are
available through the users."
Also, Off Our Rockers BBS (201) 727-6917. Please download some
gifs, according to one poster.
16. What about all these other FAQs I see here?
16a.I think they are a great idea. More power to them. Between all
of the FAQs, we'll get the Stern info to the masses. :-) If any
other FAQ owners want to cross post to the answers group, I'll
restructure this one so that it goes in a subdir and there is room
for everyone.
--
Nick Simicich - uunet!bywater!scifi!njs - njs@watson.ibm.com
SSI #AOWI 3958, HSA 318, NAUI #14065, PSI #3286