Byline: Paul Farhi

Heard or seen something on the pop culture landscape thatappalled/delighted/enlightened you? Of course you have. That's what Station Break with Paul Farhi is here for. Local stations, cable, radio shows, commercials, pop culture -- they're all fair game.

Farhi is a reporter in the Post's Style section, writing about media and popular culture. He's been watching TV and listening to the radiosince "The Monkees" were in first run and Adam West was a star. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Los Angeles, Farhi had brief stints in the movie business (as an usher at the Picwood Theater), and in the auto industry (rental-car lot guy) before devoting himself fulltime to word processing. His car has 15 radio pre-sets and his cable system has 75 channels. He vows to use all of them for good instead of evil.

A transcript follows.

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Paul Farhi: Greetings, all....Look, I know we've talked about this before, but commercial radio is just becoming unbearable, far too commercial and not enough radio. How many times has this happened to you? You're driving along and a commercial hits. You hit the button for another station--and hit another commercial. And so on, all through the dial. This morning, I hit a new low: the same commercial being played almost simultaneously on two stations. I thought I'd failed to hit the button, then realized I was getting a commercial simulcast. Sheesh...And I know what you'll say--get a satellite radio! You know what? Maybe...

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Washington, D.C.: Do you think Howard Stern will be back on the free airwaves?

Paul Farhi: No, at least not for five years or $500 million.

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