In December 2012, Mr. Stern summoned his staff to an auditorium in the McGraw Hill building in Midtown Manhattan, which is home to Sirius XM. Mr. Stern berated his staff for not getting his show to the next level, people in attendance say.



“He yelled at everybody about a dress code and literally referred to staff looking like homeless people,” one person who was there recalls.



Ms. Turk didn’t attend, but Mr. Stern mentioned that he was bringing her on in a senior role. That led to an awkward moment when Mr. Dell’Abate, the longtime executive producer of the show raised his hand and asked if he would now report to her instead of him after nearly 30 years. Mr. Stern paused and said, “Actually Gary you do,” according to another attendee.

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In February of 2016, I posted a thread at DS chronicling the unlikely and humiliating transfer of power from industry veteran Tim Sabean to the unknown and untested young life coach Marci Turk. Seventeen months later, it remains Google's top result when you search the name Marci Turk.In honor of Radio Gunk's exclusive interview with Tim Sabean, which @Monique will be posting very soon, I offer an updated version of The Thread Too Ugly to Die, with all-new entries pulled from the May 2017 Wall Street Journal article about Marci Please note that each of the tweets I originally presented in this thread have since been deleted by their authors. But thanks to the wonders of the Internet Archive, I was able to recover them against the wishes of their creators.---------------------------I've been trying to get a handle lately on the creation of the mysterious and all-powerful Marci Turk. It seems to me it all started with a simple -- but completely misguided -- tweet from "Creator of the Howard Stern Channels" (according to his Twitter bio) Tim Sabean on Friday, June 1, 2012:Robin Quivers had undergone surgery to have a grapefruit-size tumor removed from her body just, on May 25th. What Tim, Senior Vice President of the Howard Stern Channels, didn't know at the time was that Robin wouldn't be returning to the studio that Monday; she worked from home, in secret, for another 16 months.The tweet enraged Howard, who six weeks earlier had his $300 million lawsuit against Sirius dismissed by Judge Barbara Kapnick, and whose debut season of AGT had premiered two weeks earlier to the lowest ratings in the show's history. He addressed Tim's tweet on the air within the first hour of the following Monday's show.Gary said that Howard is very annoyed today. Howard agreed. He said he bought a book called, and it tells you how to get things done and. Howard said he's the one who is supposed to fix things around there, and that he has to get rid of some people around there.Gary said he can't do that because Tim is his boss.Howard said that Gary should be in charge of Tim.“[Howard] contacted our offices directly and asked, ‘Hey, do you have any coaches?’” says David Allen, author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. He directed Howard to Marci, who had been working out of David Allen Co.’s New York office. Marci was a good fit, David says, because “she’s smart, savvy, classy, hip and fast.”Howard said he was telling Robin earlier about this book Getting Things Done, and that he has zero email in his inbox. He had over 2,000 emails in there, and now it's zero. He said that he's taking care of everything, and the book teaches you how to do it.He saidtold him to just unsubscribe from some stuff. He said he's on a mad tear and he loves it.Howard said that he's giving David Allen and company a big endorsement.He said that he kept putting off his doctor's appointment and this woman just told him to do it. Howard said he did it and now he'll do stuff like that from now on. Howard said he may have her visit Gary's office to look over what's going on with his Post-It notes. Gary said he's loving the idea.Howard said that it helps the person to fire them because they'll figure out what they were doing wrong. He said they'll appreciate what they have after he fires them.Howard said the woman from Getting Things Done has said to him that she can't believe what a pushover he is because he hasn't fired anyone.Howard and crew humiliate SVP Tim Sabean on the air with claims of a "shit-covered bathroom" that they blame on the Green Drink juicing Tim. After adamantly denying it at first, Tim later admits he's sick and that he moved his bowels in the bathroom that morning. From this moment on, Tim is defined as a careless adult who needs toilet training because he destroys bathrooms. Howard delights in humiliating Tim with song parodies that are pouring in. He reveals that Tim was "shunned" by the cast and crew at AGT when he visited Howard, because "the whole world knows" what Tim did. Howard mused that this must be Tim's worst nightmare. Gary confirmed that it is.--In a 2015 interview with Al's Boring Podcast , Tim describes what would turn out to be his end days with the Stern show:"I'll be very honest. It got to the point towards the very end ... Um, Howard brought in a consultant and it really kinda rocked my world ... It disturbed me to the point where I wasn't sleeping, and I wasn't happy. I was miserable."Tim Sabean delivers his "State of the Channels Address" on Howard's show. Afterwards, Howard allows his staff to ask Tim questions, and Lisa G blindsides Tim with an accusation that he's dating Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville -- whom Beth had hung out with exactly one month earlier.If Howard was planning to fire Tim, as he seemed to be hinting at all along, it appears that he wanted to make sure to humiliate him on a major stagebefore getting rid of him.Howard sets Lisa up by reminding Tim that the Stern Show is supposed to be "the truth in broadcasting."Howard saidTim said he read that. Howard said he knows that he did.Lisa G asked Tim if he's now dating Brandi Glanville. Howard asked if that's true. Lisa said she has her spies. Howard asked if that's really happening. Tim said he has no idea who she is. Howard said she was on the show last week. Tim told them to get the fuck out of there. He said he knows who she is but she doesn't know who she is. He swore that he never even talked to her. Tim said they have to be kidding him. Robin said the tip off is that he didn't say no immediately. Tim said no after that. Howard said this is the same statement he made after Shitgate.Tim said that his personal life is off limits. Howard asked if this is really happening. Tim said he didn't even meet her. Howard asked if he went to dinner or kissed her. Howard had him swear on the life of his children. Tim did but he did that in Shitgate too. Robin said he must have his fingers crossed. Howard asked if he talked to her. Tim said he did see her in the hallway but didn't even say hello to her. Howard said he'd be proud of him if he was dating her. Tim said he would be too.Howard asked Lisa where she got her information. Lisa said she can't say. She said she has to keep that a secret.Jason Kaplan tweets that he's at dinner with Tim Sabean and Will Murray, "drinking our troubles away." [Photo proof is deleted.]Tim stopped tweeting two weeks after that. He was no longer mentioned on the Stern Show, and the shows Tim created and oversaw for Howard 101 ---- were all pulled and replaced with reruns of Stern Show segments.Around this time, Marci is acknowledged as Chief Operating Officer on Howard's site. This isAfter a leave of absence to tend to his sick parents, Tim has officially left the Stern Show -- by choice, he maintains. He has a new job with SiriusXM, working with Opie and Anthony. It lasts just 10 months."Marci Turk, you are an inspiration to me every single day. You changed my life. Thank you. The fans don't know you, but I'll tell you this, fans: If you love the Howard Stern Show, you love this woman Marci Turk."Howard takes a moment at his high-profile, celebrity-filled birthday bash to publicly thank Marci Turk for changing his life and inspiring him everyday. The normally joyous Beth gives Marci the same unimpressed look she gives her subordinates at the animal shelter, refusing her even a courtesy smile.Tim Sabean, creator of the Howard Stern channels and still a Sirius employee at this point, is not invited to attend.To paraphrase Tim:"If it was created by man---- it can be solved by-man."