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Talk radio godfather Rush Limbaugh thinks satellite radio will build slowly and take years to reach the nation. And that's if some new technology, like podcasting, doesn't undercut them before they get there.

A. I think satellite radio is a new technology and it's going to build slowly. It's tough for me. I'm asked all the time if I'm going to satellite radio, and I've got 604 radio stations. I would cannibalize (myself) if I went to satellite radio. My audience is 22-24 million, and their subscription is like 3 million people. That's pretty small. The question is, they have a pretty big debt load and you've got two satellite companies. At some point, it's possible there will be a new technology that is going to come along and surpass them before they can retire their debt load, like podcasting. I wish them the best, because it's more opportunities for people, but it's going to be a slow build. It's like satellite TV. They have a lot of subscribers and it's taken a lot of years to get there, but they still don't reach the nation.

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Shock jock Howard Stern is facing potential censorship in his new radio home at Sirius satellite radio. Sirius executives are working on guidelines to censor Stern's show and the show is being broadcast on a time delay to make ensorship easier.

The morning drive-time radio host said he left terrestrial radio because he was fed up with censorship by individual stations and FCC fines for indecency. Now, in what must be a painful irony for Stern, Sirius executives are developing an internal document that will set boundaries for his show.

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The latest developments in the case of James Keown, the Jefferson City radio talk show host accused of poisoning his wife in Massachusetts by putting antifreeze in her Gatorade.
Attorney J.W. Carney Jr. intends to seek a bail hearing for James Keown later this month.

Keown's attorney turned over a laptop computer sought by prosecutors hours before a judge was scheduled to rule on compelling it to be turned over.

Carney said he chose to deliver the computer because his client has nothing to hide.

«James Keown has nothing to hide,» he said.

Laptop turned over to prosecutors in murder case

Bail hearing pushed back in murder case 

Depending who you ask, either talk radio host Bill O'Reilly had his hat handed to him by talk TV host David Letterman last night or Letterman conceded that he was too dumb to argue with O'Reilly. The high (low?) point came when Letterman told O'Reilly, «I'm not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling that 60% of what you say is crap.»

News Hounds says Letterman was «not impressed» when O'Reilly told several «tales not worth repeating» about the War on Christmas, including a discredited account of a school forcing kids to change the words to Silent Night.

But in a Certain Slant of Light, Letterman's behavior simply looked boorish:

We usually find him entertaining, witty, and the quintessential, disarming rascal of the late night television scene. While he's not even close to being the equal of Johnny Carson, he's head-and-shoulders more entertaining than Jay Leno and rises above the bawdiness and Vegas lounge show scruples of his NBC counterpart.

Last night, however, David Letterman set a new low in rude, boorish behavior for a talk show host in his ill-mannered treatment of his first guest, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.

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Talk host Bill O'Reilly said on his show that the Plano Texas school district had banned red and green clothing because they were «the colors of Christmas». The school is involved in litigation that involves the prohibition of school supplies with a Christmas theme or colors, but maintains that there is no ban on red and green clothing.

Mr. O'Reilly did not acknowledge any error in a prepared statement issued Tuesday: «There is ongoing litigation involving the Plano school district that deals with censoring Christmas and religious expression. As part of this ongoing litigation, issues have been raised about the banning of Christmas items with specific colors and there's a range of items in question.»

Richard Abernathy, an attorney for the school district, wrote in an e-mail to Mr. O'Reilly that his fascism «slur smacks of McCarthyism and represents yellow journalism at its best ...»

Mr. Abernathy signed the note, «Merry Christmas.»

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