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''The David Lee Roth Show'' was a short-lived morning radio program in 2006, starring the loquacious rock musician David Lee Roth (of Van Halen fame). It was syndicated nationally, replacing America's longtime most popular radio show, ''The Howard Stern Show''. Notably different from Howard Stern's program, or corporate "morning zoo" and "shock jock" formats which dominated morning radio at the time, Roth's radio program sounded like pirate radio by comparison. Blocks of obscure ethnic music – or largely non-commercial rock music – alternated with personal stories, occasionally uncomfortable debates on intellectual matters, and interviews with people Roth admired (e.g. guitarist Brian May, baseball player Johnny Damon, and his uncle Manny Roth, etc.). Following its January 2006 debut, a plurality of critics savaged the show, chiding its "amateurishness," while a minority praised Roth's willingness to bring something so obviously "non-corporate" (and ultimately "anti-corporate") to American mainstream radio. Arbitron numbers showed that Roth's radio program initially lost a sizable portion of the Howard Stern audience; however, by the end of his tenure, his show began to find advocates in people disenchanted by ClearChannel-formatted radio.〔http://blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=51277〕 Roth's firing from CBS Radio ended in a lawsuit, which was eventually settled. ==History== ''The David Lee Roth Show'' began airing on January 3, 2006. The show was produced by CBS Radio as part of its Free FM format, and was based out of WFNY-FM in New York City. The show replaced Howard Stern's show in a majority of the latter show's east coast markets, following Stern's move from the FM dial to Sirius Satellite Radio at the end of 2005. Host David Lee Roth had been an American pop culture icon since the late 1970s, first as the ostentatious original frontman for Van Halen, and later as a solo artist who helped to launch the careers of guitarists Steve Vai, Jason Becker, and John 5. ''The David Lee Roth Show'' aired in seven markets on CBS-owned-and-operated stations, WFNY-FM in New York City, WBCN-FM in Boston, WNCX-FM in Cleveland, KLLI-FM in Dallas, WYSP-FM in Philadelphia, WRKZ-FM in Pittsburgh and WPBZ-FM in West Palm Beach. There was mass speculation regarding cancellation or format change when Roth took an unexpected one-week vacation in March, after having been doing the show for only two months. Following weeks of mounting tension between Roth and CBS Radio management (which Roth often expressed on-air), and several (corporately ordered) changes in format, CBS abruptly pulled the plug on the show without fanfare on April 21, 2006. On April 24, 2006 CBS Radio Chairman amd CEO Joel Hollander announced that ''The David Lee Roth Show'' was being replaced starting on Wednesday April 26 with ''The Opie and Anthony Show'' on all of Roth's former affiliates except for Cleveland affiliate WNCX. WNCX opted to produce its own local morning show and air ''Opie and Anthony'' in afternoon drive-time. As a result of the cancellation of his radio show, Roth reportedly retained the same law firm that Stern used in his lawsuit against CBS Radio, its parent CBS Corporation, and CBS Corp's Chairman Leslie Moonves. Roth stated publicly that "someone will pay." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The David Lee Roth Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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