| Getting Howard Stern off NPR |
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | December 21, 2006
After last Christmas, public radio stations across the country were
inundated with complaints from listeners who were shocked to hear
Howard Stern interrupt "Morning Edition" or their classical music
lineup.
The portable satellite radios, iPods, and DVD players that people had
received as gifts were playing on FM frequencies that interrupted
broadcasts at the left end of the radio dial, in violation of federal
regulations.
After a year of wrangling among broadcasters, regulators, and device
manufacturers, public radio listeners and officials are in a holding
pattern, waiting to see whether the problems the new media created for
old radio have been corrected before deciding whether to take further
action.
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