This whole Stern vs. O+A thing is getting out of hand, but I guess it sells radios. A Howard Stern fan approached Opie & Anthony during the XM "Walk Over" on Friday's show. The Stern fan first came up to the microphone and said, "This is Opie and Anthony's whole audience here? I just wanna say, uhm, Howard Stern has a huge [base, vulgar term for male genitalia] and I love him."

More inane quips one would expect from a diehard Stern (or OA) fan followed, until the Stern fan then threw Ben Sparks against a wall and was subdued by "Club Soda Kenny" and "Master Po" who pinned the Stern fan down and made him apologize on air. The Stern fan was held for the NYPD, who arrived an unspecified amount of time later.

Stern and OA are becoming the Rock-em-sock-em robots of XM and SIRIUS, allowing the companies to spar against each other in the press without actually, uh, sparring against each other in the press.

Orbitcast has audio of the whole thing. Not safe for work.

[via Orbitcast]

Will an appearance on SIRIUS' Howard Stern show help save Dustin Diamond's house? Who doesn't hope so?

The former child star from "Saved By The Bell" revealed on the Howard Stern show that he may lose his house, and is selling t-shirts online to make up for a $250,000 shortfall after the land owner called in a provision in his person-to-person mortgage.

He told Stern he needed to sell 30,000 t-shirts at his site,  www.getdshirts.com to save his two-story suburban home.

It will be interesting to see how far a plea on Stern gets you since the switch to SIRIUS. I'm cheering for Dustin, I mean, he never got Lisa Turtle, he should at least keep his house.

As had been widely expected, Howard Stern and CBS have settled the lawsuit that grew from Stern's departure to SIRUS Satellite Radio. CBS filed suit in February against Stern, his agent and Sirius, claiming he breached his contract by talking about his new satellite radio gig on the air, essentially giving SIRIUS free advertisement.

No details on the settlement have been published, and in fact, spokes-people for both sides are being tight lipped in the press, having stated publicly that no deal has actually been signed.

This is good news for all involved. SIRIUS and Howard need to get down to the business of selling more radios and paying off the enormous deal offered to Stern and his crew for their relocation to satellite. CBS needs to let bygones be bygones. No lawsuit will return Stern to the public airwaves, and this deal lets CBS end the crying over spilled milk.

[via Forbes]

SIRIUS continues their signing ways with the announcement of the latest star coming to SIRIUS Stars 102. On May 4 SIRIUS released that they had signed Deepak Chopra as a host of a weekly 3 hour live call-in show on Saturdays. His show is scheduled to start in the summer later this year. Deepak Chopra, the author of over 42 books, said "I will be focusing on four areas -- success; love, sexuality and relationships; well being; and spirituality. My hope is to develop a more personal relationship with a back and forth communication, something that I haven't been able to do with my books."

I am a little late in reporting this, but SIRIUS announced on Tuesday that Mark Cuban, the outspoken, sometimes too outspoken for the NBA league commissioner, owner of the Dallas Mavericks has signed to do a weekly talk show. Mark Cuban was interviewed by Kevin C. Tofel back last October for Weblogs Inc. sibling blog HDBeat.com. Cuban's show "Radio Maverick" will be broadcast on SIRIUS Stars 102 Sundays from 12 pm - 2 pm ET starting this summer.

In the press release Cuban is quoted as saying that he is fired up about the show and that "I plan on raising hell and covering any and all topics that I think are interesting and taking no prisoners along the way." Having seen and heard some of his tirades toward the NBA officials during some of the Dallas Mavericks games, he definitely has his own opinions and is not afraid to use them.SIRIUS' President of Entertainment and Sports, Scott Greenstein said "Radio Maverick will be a forum without limits, where he can talk to SIRIUS listeners about everything from the NBA to an MBA."

[Via TheStreet.com]

The organizers of this year's South By Southwest (SXSW for short) festival have made a number of the presentations and panel discussions from the fest available as podcasts.  You can download individual programs or subscribe to the RSS feed for the whole thing and get new ones automatically. There's some really good stuff in these shows, which deal mostly (for now at least) on podcasting itself and other Web2.0-type topics.

David Lee Roth, who was put on the air in some markets as a replacement to Howard Stern, complained about managerial interference during an interview on the Howard 100 news show on Sirius this past week. As reported in the New York Daily News, the aging ex-rocker called his bosses "social retards" and other colorful names in response to orders that he program his show for the Lynyrd Skynyrd set (...hey man, is that Freedom Rock?!) and stop speaking Spanish on the air. Howard Stern, who is facing a lawsuit from CBS for breach of contract, reported the news on HowardStern.com, and according to Billboard Radio Monitor, Stern commiserates with The Grapes of Roth: "Bring a guy in, $4 million a year. Destroy him. And you can see they're setting him up to not pay him because they're saying he's not cooperating." Apparently, Diamond Dave will also soon be given a female news reader a la Robin Quivers to play off of. January's ratings for Roth show a steep decline in listenership of his target 18-34 year old audience in New York - 13.8% to 1.3% as reported in the Daily News - but that's no surprise. Those are some mighty big, crass, sophomoric shoes Dave has to fill. 

XM will provide comprehensive coverage of the upcoming Grammy Awards on GRAMMY Radio, a channel the satellite radio provider is launching February 6th and running through the 8th. The channel, to be broadcast on XM's channel 200, will cover interviews with attendees as they enter the awards ceremony as well as the other events such as the Trustee Awards Ceremony and Lifetime Achievement Awards. A complete list of coverage and events can be found at the special Grammys page on XM's website.

We haven't swung by the local convenience store for the latest Rolling Stone mag, and after hearing Howard Stern's rant today, we're not sure if we will. The whole Kanye as Jesus thing (complete with a crown of thorns) might be a major put-off to any Christian readers, which is ironic since Stern is Jewish. So what's his Howardness's beef? Apparently Mr. Private Parts was shot in the exact same way for Rolling Stone some ten-odd years back when he wasn't the $500 million dollar man. So why didn't we ever see Howard as Jesus? Rolling Stone head-honchos figured that the cover shot would be too controversial for the mag; like that never happens, right?

What's the deal? Kanye plays Jesus as an African-American but Stern can't play the part as a white Jewish-American? Maybe it's just us, but Rolling Stone makes it clear that what was controversial ten years ago sells magazines today.

Howard Stern's replacement has been named for St. Louis' KPNT-FM (105.7 The Point). Rover's Morning Glory will be his replacement when he leaves their airwaves in his last broadcast on Friday, December 16gh.

During the period while Howard is gone to when Rover's Morning Glory debuts, The Point will be playing lots and lots of music. While this is being dubbed as a "new era in morning radio" for St. Louis, this is definitely isn't going to be "the era of huge ratings" as dedicated fans make their move to Sirius in January.

Wondering why you heard a "best of" episode this morning? Well, that's because Howard Stern has been given a one-day suspension by Infinity Broadcasting for talking about Sirius (eh eh eh) too much on the air. Yesterday's show was the last time Las Vegas listeners would hear Howard on terrestrial as his contract with KXTE expired. During the goodbyes to Vegas, Howard was dropping the Sirius bomb all over the place and suggested to a listener on the phone to subscribe to the service.

That was too much for Infinity, and he was notified by Tom Chiusano that he would be suspended for one-day as a result. If he comes back on the air tomorrow, Stern will have only 23 shows left before he jumps ship.

Talk about free publicity.

You have to wonder what's going on inside the brains of the executives at Infinity Broadcasting. With the imminent departure of Howard Stern to satellite, we're not reading reports that Howard's NYC home station K-Rock will switch to an all-talk format once he leaves. Wouldn't that have been a good idea to do while he's still employed at Infinity?

Afterall, that's exactly what happened with Infinity's WNEW when Opie and Anthony took over the airwaves and grew to astonishing heights of popularity. Once O&A left, the station crumbled and is now still trying to find it's identity. Whereas now with Howard leaving, the execs think they can keep the station afloat by converting to 100% talk? HUH??

Opie and Anthony, the dynamic duo best known for their association with Lil' Jimmy Norton, have gone and setup an auction on eBay to benefit Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Of the items being sold, most notably is the "Opie and Anthony XM 202" sign that was used when WCBS-TV/New York reporter Arthur Chi'en cursed on the air and subsequently got fired over.

All proceeds from the sale of the sign, and other Norton and Friend's items on eBay, will go to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

XM announced yesterday that they'll be launching a women's lifestyle channel called Take Five. The channel, slated to debut in October, will feature content from the Daytime Emmy Award winning Ellen DeGeneres Show, the new Tyra Banks Show, as well as content from the Food Network and HGTV.

While these will essentially be regurgitated from the TV show content, there is potential for good programming depending on how it's presented. Original content will include The Judith Warner Show hosted by the New York Times best-selling author of Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety.

As part of the launch, Ellen will be giving away Pioneer AirWare XM2go units to her in-studio audience.

Sirius just inked a deal with Cosmopolitan magazine to provide a dedicated channel meant to attract the younger female demographic. I can't help but to compare this to the Maxim Channel - wanna guess why? They're both "edgy" magazines meant to attract the 18-34 demo, only with different sexes.

It's an interesting concept to think that a magazine can just waltz in and do original radio content, but Maxim is doing an alright job at it, and with the female market growing for satellite radio, Cosmo may just have something.