save_man said: Hopefully the loss of "eehh eehh eehh" issues and fights with Tom will make things a lot better. The show was ~50%, seemingly, about how they were leaving FM for the past year, getting worse with each month. But then again, it's certainly intriguing listening to Howard debate Tom Chiasano and whomever for every little delay for bleepings and so forth. Just the genuinality of the real issues with the FCC (thanks to Bush, the religious right, and friggin' Janet Jackson) discussed/argued on live radio is worth listening to. This is one area Howard has no equal to. Click to expand...

Yeah, THAT'S what it is. Howard blames his loss of listeners and sub par radio on the FCC, meanwhile, O&A became HUGE all over the country and gained tons of listeners in the same period of time that Howard spent doing, his words, "sub par radio". They had the same rules and regulations -- how come they were able to do great radio but Howard couldn't even do good radio? Not because of the FCC, but because Howard has lost touch and has become a shell of his former self. Instead of working around it and thus letting it make his creative juices flow even more because of his limitations, he decided it would be easier to just give up and spend a lot of his time just complaining about the fact that he was being censored.I used to be a very big Howard fan. I listened to him for years before I even knew or gave a damn who Opie and Anthony were. Hell, back in 2000, I listened to every minute of Howard's show from the beginning of July until the beginning of September with the exception of a week or so in August while I was on vacation. Then I found O&A and R&F at the end of 2000 into 2001, and I began to realize how much better they were than Howard, and I eventually got hooked into the entire WNEW lineup (hell, I even enjoyed Don and Mike for a few months), and didn't even bother tuning in Stern until O&A got cancelled. I listened to Stern in the mornings driving to school in 2003 and 2004, and a little bit in the summer, and I began to realize how much I missed Opie and Anthony, because Stern was just not good.Then, in the winter of early 2005, I found out that John Cena was going to be on the Opie and Anthony Show, and I was like, WHAAAA???!?!, when did O&A come back? In May I bought XM online, and in June I got a MyFi, and the rest is history. Every now and again if I'm driving in the morning I'll put Howard on (don't have my own car right now, thus no XM), and I can't take it. Hell, I've even growd to dislike Artie, a guy who I always liked, thanks to him being on Stern.