Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Booey for the King of All Media and his Queen: lustful radio shock jock HOWARD STERN and his wife ALISON are separating after 21 years, ending one of the most curiously enduring of public marriages. Stern regularly used Alison as on-air fodder, moaning about their sex life--she'd been known to call up and rebut him--and once hurtfully joked about Alison's miscarriage. Yet through all the stripper interviews and hearty rounds of Butt Bongo, the professional lech vowed he was faithful to his wife, portrayed in his autobiography and 1997 movie Private Parts as a dedicated...
...beholden to powers like Procter & Gamble, the networks get to call the shots. For instance, they're insisting that many start-ups pay in advance. "Everything's sold out," says Fred Reynolds, chief financial officer of CBS, which in addition to its TV empire owns a vast collection of radio stations and billboards. Though most of the old media won't trade ads outright with the dot.coms--the kind of bartering that takes place all the time in cyberspace--they will use the slots as currency. Rather than pay with stock or cash, CBS has swapped nearly a billion dollars...
...cell-phone industry, to be sure, isn't without fault here. Numerous animal studies hint at the potential of damage to human cells from the sort of radio waves that cell phones emit. At the very least, a $200-billion-a-year industry ought to undertake further studies, if only for good public relations...
...walks into a major department store in Paris wearing Caterpillar boots, a Jack Daniels cap, Club Med shades, a Cadillac polo shirt and Marlboro jeans. He smells ruggedly of Chevrolet aftershave. He buys a set of Le Cordon Bleu cookware for his wife and a Jeep radio-CD player for himself. To pay, he flips opens his Harrods leather wallet and whips out a Jaguar Visa card. He's branded to the hilt, and the embodiment of European consumerism for the new millennium...
Joyner and Smiley's crusade started more than a year ago when Smiley delivered a blistering commentary about a memo from the Katz Radio Group, a New York City-based ad-sales firm, advising clients to forgo buying spots on minority-oriented radio stations because "advertisers should want prospects, not suspects." Within days, Joyner's fans had heaped so much protest on Katz that its president came on the show and promised to double its billings for black radio stations. Next, Joyner and Smiley compiled a list of companies that get millions of dollars from black customers and started pressuring...