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Check out the new HowardStern.com because they've been busy and it's more than just a new skin.

Here's a video tutorial of all the new bells & whistles

I was going through the new howardstern.com, which was in great need of a revamp and I think they did a great job I might add, and I came across a staff profile for Marci Turk, "Chief Operations Officer".



I don't recollect Howard or anyone else ever making mention of her before. If she's not going to ever be on-the-air, I don't know why she has a profile on the site. Her LinkedIn page is up to date and says she works for HSS, leaving her last job in "2013", so this must have been a very recent hire.

I wonder if this is what Howard was announcing when he had that big meeting the same day ra ra retard double booked Jewel and Jenny McCarthy.

I'll be interested to see what kind of presence/impact she'll have on the show.

Richard Christy sent over this message and a link to his new heavy metal cartoon. Hope you enjoy it.



For Lovers of Heavy Metal Viking Rock Opera Homoerotic Medieval Animated Musical Cinema, There Is Finally A Cartoon For You. Its Name Is Majestic Loincloth. The Brainchild of Charred Walls of the Damned Drummer and Comedian Richard Christy, Majestic Loincloth has been over 10 years in the making. Featuring music from Richard Christy and fellow Charred Walls of the Damned member Jason Suecof and animation by Dicko Mather and Chris Prynoski from Titmouse Animation (Animators of Metalocalypse), Majestic Loincloth is 10 episodes of idiotic heavy metal hilarity. In the premier episode Manly Metal Warrior Gunnar Steedhorn must help his studly son Oliver defeat Orloff the Gravedigger, the evilest evil guy in the history of all evilness! New episodes will appear every other Thursday on the Rugburn Channel on Youtube.



UPDATE: Episode 2 is now up.

America's Got Talent will be live from Radio City Music Hall this year. Howard Stern says he's so proud to bring this show to NYC and it being at Radio City is especially meaningful to him. This is a gigantic venue which easily hold twice as many people. We'll all have to go out and see Howie, Mel B, Heidi, & Howard. Mariann From Brooklyn is ecstatic because they have beautiful boxes there. I can't wait to join her there.



RCMH is across the street from SiriusXM (google map) so it will be easy to swing by before / after SFRT. Obviously Howard doesn't walk in & out of the front door or he'd have seen the giant neon lights. The corner in the photo above faces the corner of the SiriusXM building where Del Frisco's is. I expect lots of fan get togethers at area bars before and after the shows. Last year in Newark was a great venue & an exciting way to meetup w/ other Stern fans but this really takes it to the next level.



Only the live shows will be at RCMH. The auditions are happening now. The NYC auditions are next week (April 8 to 10) and will take place at the Hammerstein Ballroom. You can sign up for free tickets here. It's a long day but Stern fans should hit it at least once.

Does Benjy Bronk look like Bradly Cooper like Elyssa says? She says you have to look close at his face. Here they are side by side.

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Remember how Sirius & XM never really merged 100%? If you didn't have both Sirius & XM radios you may not have noticed but up until recently billing wise they still considered them 2 companies with 2 different services. If I had a primary Sirius account w/ 1 radio & then add a 2nd Sirius radio, it counts as a 2nd subscription on that same account & you pay a cheaper price. However if that 2nd radio was an XM radio, they used to count it as a primary XM account w/ 1 radio instead of a 2nd SiriusXM radio. This meant you couldn't get the 2nd radio discounted rate. It also meant if you already had a lifetime Sirius account & you new car had XM, you couldn't apply it to the XM radio.

Well, all the bullshit is over. With them finally looking at this as 1 company, you can merge your Sirius & XM accounts into 1 SiriusXM account!!! So If your car has Sirius & your wife's has XM, you can get both subs in 1 account w/ the 2nd radio discount. You also can use your Sirius lifetime subscription on an XM radio. This won't happen automatically. You have to contact SiriusXM & request the change.

For many of you this may not matter but it's been a long time since they made a new cool Sirius radio and XM seems to get them all the time. Now, if you wanted you could simply jump ship & use their tech.

NOTE: Though this changed billing but it didn't change programming. All the channels are still the same & if you want Howard on XM, or Oprah on Sirius, you'll need the best of package.

I use the SiriusXM online player all the time now and so so excited when they started beta testing the OnDemand / Timeshifting features. Since they they've gone live w/ these and my listening habits have completely changed. Being able to rewind any channel up to 5hrs & being able to pull up a weeks worth of Howard's shows was such a dramatic change to what I was used to and now I find myself using them every single day.

SiriusXM MyControl

Well, it's beta test time again at SiriusXM so go login to the beta player right now & check out the new MyControl feature.
https://www.siriusxm.com/player/mybeta/



TWEAK YOUR CHANNELS
MyControl lets you tweak 40 music channels to your musical tastes. See the "My" icon in the upper right of this screenshot? When you click it you'll get an overlay w/ sliders and when you push them around it changes what the next song will be. Make Hits1 more hitsy, less popy, & less tweeny or The Highway county music less depressing & twangy. I haven't used it long enough to tell you whether this is a feature I need but 1 thing I know for sure, I tweak my pandora channels like this all the time so I assume as I use it more, I'll find more uses for it.



SKIP A SONG / REPLAY A SONG
SFNers escapewisconsin found another new feature. If a song come on you don't like, you can skip forward to the next song. (5 times per hour) You also can back up & do an instant replay.



The iOS & Android apps don't have these new features yet but the last beta didn't last too long before iOS got them & then Android shortly behind that.

anyway, go check it out and let us know what else you found new.
https://www.siriusxm.com/player/mybeta/
this works with your current SiriusXM internet login.

Ronnie said that the new limo is a Lincoln MKT Crossover. Here's a photo of one. (it's not his actual car) Howard says it lacks all the normal limo bells & whistles but Ronnie says it's loaded w/ touchscreens & voice recognition. It has apple TV an internet hotspot so Howard can use his iPad mini to wirelessly play video on the TV. He still has a divider he can put up so he doesn't have to look at Ronnie but Howard wants mirrors & storage compartments.



They come in different lengths & I do not know what size he got but here are specs for one.
http://www.funeralcars.ca/2013-superior-lincoln-mkt-44-inch-limousine/

Here's the official Linclon MKT Crossover page. It's not specifically for a limo but gives you info about the basic vehicle.
http://www.lincoln.com/crossovers/mkt/

Here's the backseat that Howard said was like a park bench. Ronnie had them change it out for something more plush & towncar-ish.


So what do you think? Is it king worthy? Nicer than the old town car? Is it too flashy?

Howard has been talking about his new private facebook like social network for the staff. They had a big meeting introducing it to the staff yesterday & today he announced to the listeners that they are calling it Muldrid and the IBM software it runs on is called Connections

here's a demo


more info can be found here.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/