After years of this public interest agenda being an animating principle within the FCC, Reagan got into office and basically deregulated the living hell out of broadcasting. Coinciding with this decline of public influence was the rise of a new breed of talk show host. This was the era of the shock jock. It's basically brash, offensive, high-energy disc jockeying. BAM, I get to your right to help you shoot me. How am I helping you? So this is Howard Stern. The all-hale Howard Stern of Sirius X- Yes, that is correct.