Many people have been wondering what's happening with the show. We've been a bit quiet about it due to some behind the scenes issues that I haven't been able to discuss until now.

When we left K-Rock, XM welcomed us with open arms. There was no contract, there was a tremendous amount of respect from management, and we brought a lot of listeners to satellite judging by the amount of email we got. We were told we could do shows whenever we wanted. There were fans that subscribed to the online stream just so they could listen live from overseas.

XM was taken over by Sirius, and we were shocked at the difference in culture. At Rockstar I am blessed to be involved with some great people who believe that their creative people are the most important component to making your creative product. And the job of management and lawyers is to stand by and defend your product. End of story. It is a far cry from the radio industry these days. I LOVE radio, and it guts me to see what it's turned into. When you ask lawyers if it's ok to be funny, you're doomed to failure.

The Lazlow Show will not be returning to satellite radio. Sirius walked through the door and cut our fee by 75%, demanded to own the name of the show, our entire back catalog of shows, all future shows, and refused to allow us to put the show on our website which we've been doing since day one. Plus they said we would no longer be able to sell box sets of the show.

I have a lot of intense feelings on the matter, but at the end of the day that's the way they choose to do business and unfortunately we don't work that way. There are some big supporters of our show, including Opie and Anthony as well as Rob Cross, who started the show at K-Rock in the first place. We wholeheartedly thank them for believing in us over the years.

The show will continue - online. Our next show is scheduled for Saturday February 6th at 6pm eastern. It will be streamed live online and also posted for download. See you then.

posted by lazlow at 2:28 PM  on Saturday, January 2, 2010