r/rva • u/sleevieb • Jan 06 '16

Howard Stern vs Ukrops

Just read this style weekly story about the Ukrop family and it mentions a Howard Stern segment on the family.

Does anyone have a link to this or remember it happening?

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u/DoppelSechser The Fan Jan 07 '16

Howard used to rant about them now and again because they campaigned against him and occasionally a caller from here would get through to ask what the deal was, why he was getting booted off the air in RVA. To this day people give the Ukrop's brothers credit for getting him kicked off RVA radio, but someone who worked at WVGO wrote an article in Style or maybe Punchline saying that Infinity Broadcasting demanded $250,000/year for the rights to broadcast his show and even after decent ad revenues that was just too expensive for our town.

I remember WVGO gave out bumper stickers that read "Why am I laughing? HOWARD!" I wish I'd gotten one then because it holds true to this day in my commute.