When Howard Stern crosses over in January to satellite radio and his own pay-per-view cable channel, he will do so from a new Midtown Manhattan studio loaded with the kinds of accessories that one
would expect to find if the Playboy Mansion were given an extreme makeover. While Mr. Stern will also be taking plenty of gadgets with him from his syndicated terrestrial radio talk show, he will be
leaving one noticeable piece of baggage behind: the increasingly tough restrictions imposed on him in recent years by his bosses (at Infinity Broadcasting) and the F.C.C.
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