From Forbes.com, see Has King of All Media been dethroned? Whether you like him or not, Howard Stern is a great man, good soul and extraordinarily successful entertainer who has done gutsy things for radio, comedy and the 1st amendment. But taking his show in the middle of a hugely popular run on a syndicated CBS-owned FM radio station to Sirius satellite radio in 2004 and in effect repudiating his “client base”–for whatever reasons–was a dumbass move. The guy and the un-PC world he created will survive, but there’s a lesson here: if it works great, don’t dump on it.
