Howard Stern vs. Les Moonves

Howard Stern

I love this fight. CBS is more or less suing Stern for $500,000,000 claiming damages because Stern promoted himself heading to Sirius while he was still on CBS. There's more to it than that, particularly if Stern had disclosed to CBS his bonus structure with Sirius whereas he would receive a sizable bonus if Sirius subscriptions increased by the time he got there.

It's so absurd because the FCC fines corporate radio and radio in turn warns and fines talent all the time. Any time CBS wanted Howard Stern silenced they could have pulled the plug.

What I love about this is that Stern had a press conference and personally attacked Moonves and said he was "incompetent" among other things. Moonves is the Chairman of "the tiffany network." He is just not accustomed to people speaking about him in this manner. He was clearly furious and his ego was rankled because he filed suit an hour after the press conference.

I can see why Howard has so many fans because he did what a lot of people fantasize about: He got on a platform and had the opportunity to say why his boss (or ex-boss) was bad at his job.

On another note, I think he looks like Victoria Gotti in the photo above.