>By DAVID HINCKLEY/NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
>A year into his new gig at Sirius Satellite Radio, Howard Stern has a
>lot more money, an engagement ring and what he says is far greater
>peace of mind.
>
>What he doesn't have, according to the leading radio trade magazine
>Talkers, is his former stature as the most important talk radio host
>in America.
>
>Talkers' annual "Heavy Hundred" list drops Stern from the No. 1 spot,
>which he held last year, to No. 12 (see below).
>
>"He's still doing very well," says Michael Harrison, editor of
>Talkers. "But this list is about what's hot - and you just don't hear
>about Stern the way you did before he went to satellite. People don't
>talk about what he said the way they used to.
>
>"A year ago, he had put satellite on the map. He was a liberal talk
>voice, even though that's not how people defined him, who got huge
>ratings. He pioneered a style of FM talk.
>
>"He absolutely deserved to be No. 1. But that was then and this is
>now. We had to ask what talk hosts are most important in the radio
>industry now."
>
>"Some people are furious about this list," says Harrison. "But Opie
>and Anthony, for instance, are now the biggest thing in FM talk. They
>belong where they are. And so does Stern."
>
>Stern does remain a potent radio touchstone. The National Association
>of Broadcasters (NAB), in opposing the proposed XM/Sirius satellite
>radio merger, asked the FCC "to weigh whether an industry that makes
>Howard Stern its poster child should be rewarded with a monopoly
>platform for offensive programming."
>
>NAB executive vice president Dennis Wharton, under whose name the
>statement was issued, said he's been bombarded with angry E-mails from
>Stern fans.
>
>Stern himself has been on vacation this week and has not commented on
>the merger or the NAB. Very likely he will.

So I guess he's not the king of all media anymore? Actually, he never was, but back when he was popular he could at least convince some stupid girls that he was.