Howard Stern Heard on Florida Christian Radio Station

By David Sutta WBBH/NBC News Channel

FT. MEYERS, FL -- The only way you should be able to hear shock jock Howard Stern's show these days is to pay for it on Sirius Satellite Radio. That is unless you listen to a particular Christian radio station in southwest Florida.

For 20 years, 88.7 has broadcast Christian music in southwest Florida. But lately when you tune in, you'll hear voice of Howard Stern?

"This is not the K-Rock Howard Stern. This is not the Howard Stern people might have heard when watching the E! channel years ago. This is the unbridled, unrestricted Howard Stern, and I was really shocked by what I heard," said Jeff Taylor, general manager of a Christian radio station.

It's shocking for Jeff Taylor because he's the general manager of the station he's hearing Stern on.

"It's not like somebody is broadcasting satellite radio on a large scale in southwest Florida. There are parking lots, there are small areas, where this interference is being felt."

So the natural thought is here is a pirate radio station out there is broadcasting Howard Stern. Well, that's not the case. It's actually a fm transmitter. Chris Dalio shows us how the device sends a signal from your satellite radio or iPods through the air to your cars antenna. You can choose to tune it in on one of four FM stations including 88.7. Our transmitter doesn't overpower the car next to us. But when we try it with a newer FM transmitter, we overpower every car around us. "The FM transmitter was initially designed to be fairly weak so that it wouldn't go very far. In a lot of the newer units, they boosted that up so that you get a clearer signal," said Chris Dalio. It explains why we are just now starting to hear Stern overpowering Christian radio.

National Public Radio is dealing with this issue as well at stations across the country. Studies conducted by the National Association of Broadcasters found several transmitters on the market broadcast signals well over the limit set by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC has yet to address the issue.

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