Dallas4U, Howard Stern will not be premium programming on SIRIUS - it is going to be standard with no extra charge.

BaM*BaM, for what it's worth, anyone who thinks Rush is an idiot is paying more attention to what real idiots are saying than to what Rush is actually saying. I have had people tell me the most ludicrous things about him, and as a daily listener for many years, I know right off the bat that they haven't listened before they judged. I had a friend swear up and down that she listened to Rush and that he said some crap about sitting on the right hand side of God. He does say that he has "talent on loan from God", and that he is "tying one half of his brain behind his back just to make it fair", but that's as close as he has ever come to anything even way remotely like saying that. The stuff he does say that sounds pretty cocky is just said precisely because it does push certain people's buttons. It doesn't bother his loyal listeners a bit because they know better.

I don't think much of Howard Stern but he has a right to be out there doing what he's doing and nobody is forced to listen. I just think it is pretty sad that he has found such a receptive audience out there that he is so very successful doing it.