Bubba The Love Sponge's Unsigned Band Review & Podcast Willy

Since Worcester has plenty of unsigned bands as well as some podcasts I thought this would be some good information to throw out there to my local readers.

Bubba The Love Sponge and his crew are the afternoon drive radio show on Howard 101 on Sirius Satellite Radio and they also do a live morning show on terrestrial radio that is syndicated on Florida radio stations. I had never listened to Bubba prior to him joining Howard Stern on Sirius, but in the past two and a half years I have become a big fan of Bubba and the gang. Their sensibilities are wilder and crazier than even Howard's and Bubba's show has seemed to pick up the torch of the everyman, now that Stern has more money than God.

The Bubba show has been featuring the unsigned band review for about a year or so. Once a week they feature two different unsigned bands and listen to two tracks off of a cd. After each song they go around the room and basically give the track a thumbs up or thumbs down. More bands fail than pass, but even if you fail you get some Carson's Ribs for your trouble.

In the Podcast Willy segment the crew listens to a submitted podcast and critiques it from a radio professionals point of view. They have only been doing this bit for a few weeks and the couple podcasts I have heard have been lackluster at best but the bits have been funny.

It would be pretty cool if some of Worcester's finest submitted their material here.


Unsigned Band Review
Podcast Willy

Bubba The Love Sponge Renews With Sirius...

This morning on The Howard Stern Radio Show on Sirius Bubba The Love Sponge flew in from the swamps of Tampa Bay to formally announce that he has signed a 1 year deal that will keep his show in the 3 to 7 afternoon drive slot on Howard 101.

The way Bubba and crew were working the fans the past month it looked as if this deal might not get done and Bubba would be headed back to terrestrial radio or take the show to podcast willie. Well, that is about half true as it was also announced later in the morning that The Bubba The Love Sponge show will also take over the morning drive slot on his hometown 102.5 The Bone as well as 104.5 in Jacksonville.

Bubba and crew had their syndicated show which was based out of Tampa dropped from the air in 203 when the FCC levied them with the largest one time fine in broadcast history.

As a listener to Bubba since he joined Sirius I can certainly tell that he has an affinity for the Tampa radio market and there is also a certain morning radio personality in Tampa that Bubba would love to knock off of their reigning #1 ratings spot.

It seemed that Sirius was putting up all kinds of roadblocks regarding Bubba's resigning, but over the weekend the King Of All Media intervened and got the deal complete.

I think it is a good deal all around and should not detract from the Sirius show all that much. It as not as if it is a watered down simulcast with terrestrial radio, instead they are two separate shows. Obviously there will be a fair amount of overlap and some topics may not seem as fresh in the afternoon, but the morning show, coupled with the long days are sure to bring more cheap heat and drama to the afternoon show as well.

I'm happy Bubba is back with Sirius for another year, the show is a nice companion to my evening drive home.


BTLS Home Page
Tampa Bay News Blog

Check out these restaurant reviews!!!!

Cobblestone's restaurant in York, PA, I think this place should be investigated!!


Cobblestone's Restaurant Reviews

Bubba The Love Sponge Wedding Pics

There has been a nice spike in traffic over here today as people have been searching for the pictures that Mutt from Stern Fan Network took of Howard Stern at his "private" birthday party Friday night. After the verbal assault that The King Of All Media unleashed on Mutt today I see that all the pictures from Howard's Private party have been removed from SFN. The few pics that I did right click and save are in the post below.

Since web traffic demands it I figured I might as well post some of the pics that Mutt posted from Bubba's wedding as well. I'm not sure if these pics are only viewable to SFN members so I figured I would save some and post them up here.

The pictures include:
Hogan and Brooke
Richard Christy and Benjy getting their dance on
The bride showing off her assets
Ronnie The Limo Driver Mund in the middle of his "Let's Fuck some Whores" chant
The one and only Ned
Bubba and his pimp cup to wash down something from "the rattler"
Berry faced Ralph Cirella

Hope you all enjoy the pictures, feel free to leave any and all comments relating to The Show and the Tampa trip!