Posted 5:41 PM by Gene

And B. S. DEFENDER was 100% RIGHT after all:

Howard Stern's Ad Rates on Sirius Slump to Low of $5,000

Of course this being ADAGE we have to offer our own junk stats (5 MILLION LISTENERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and our own junk sound byte from the president of the Jackass: Number 2 Fan Club:

"He had to know going in that his universe would be smaller," said Rich Russo, director-broadcast, JL Media, who said that although Mr. Stern is "not the pop-cultural force he once was" in radio, he's still up there with Guglielmo Marconi and Alan Freed, making him "one of the three most important men in history of radio -- and one of them invented it."

Yes, take eighty years out of radio's history and you're right.