PITTSBURGH -- Howard Stern's syndicated morning radio show will be back on the air in Pittsburgh this summer as part of a big switch for a long-popular station.
Stern will be heard on 93.7 WBZZ-FM, an
Infinity Broadcasting station, beginning July 19.
He had been on 105.9 WXDX-FM until February, when parent company
Clear Channel instituted a zero-tolerance policy for indecency and suspended him for a racial slur made by a caller.
"I've missed my fans, and judging from the countless e-mails and calls I've received, they've missed the show," Stern said Wednesday morning. "Now we have the opportunity to be together again. It will be great."
Stern said his return to Pittsburgh and other markets where he was yanked sends a message to the Federal Communications Commission. He claimed the FCC "is on a witch hunt" to get him off the radio, and he acknowledged the agency's power.
"I am not beating the FCC," Stern said. "When the government wants you out, you are out."
Stern is part of a wider change for WBZZ, which is moving from a Top 40 format to rock. The station will now be branded as "93.7 K-Rock" instead of "93.7 BZZ."
937krock.com launched Wednesday afternoon with a splash page that promotes the station's new logo and tag line, "The Rock of Pittsburgh." Web site feedback and listener participation in an on-air survey will help decide which bands are played, according to the station.
The show that Stern is replacing, "Dave, Bubba, Brian and Shelley," was still being promoted on
937bzz.com late Wednesday afternoon.
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