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Posted on 08/07/2025 12:59:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
Controversial radio host Howard Stern is set to have his show cancelled after nearly two decades of headlining SiriusXM, after reports say his contract will not be renewed.
According to a report from The Sun, SiriusXM is expected to make an offer, though it’s expected that Stern will not be accepting.
Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want, one source told The Sun, adding that it’s no longer worth the investment to keep paying the reported $100 million-a-year salary Stern is currently receiving.
SiriusXM is expected to negotiate a deal to retain Stern’s digital library, though the show does appear to be winding down after 49 years on the air.
There’s no way they can keep paying his salary, another source told the outlet.
In addition to declining popularity, the show has caused significant financial losses for the platform, and SiriusXM executives are reportedly fed up with Stern’s outspoken political views.
Stern, known for his boundary-pushing content, became somewhat of a zealot on COVID-19 pandemic policies and vaccine guidelines.
Stern famously advocated for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations while being dismissive of civil liberties concerns raised by vaccine opponents.
When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated? Fk them. Fk their freedom. I want my freedom to live, he said in September of 2021.
During the same month, Stern mocked fellow radio hosts who had recently passed away from the virus.
Four of them were like ranting on the air — they will not get vaccinated… they were all dying and then their dying words were, ‘I wish I had been more into the vaccine,’ Stern ranted without evidence.
Stern’s ramblings had reportedly worn thin on SiriusXM executives by the time he interviewed Kamala Harris and made a number of controversial comments about Donald Trump and his supporters.
I don’t hate Donald… I hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence. For not being able to see what’s going on with the coronavirus, for not being able to see what the Justice Department is doing, Stern said of the current president’s 81 million supporters in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election.
I hate you, I don’t want you here.
Stern made his name as one of the most recognizable voices in radio, starting out at WNBC and then “K-Rock” WXRK, where The Howard Stern Show became a national phenomenon.
After moving to SiriusXM in 2006, he helped drive the satellite radio service’s subscriber base and became the face of the emerging brand.
The show’s cancellation comes just weeks after CBS announced it would be cancelling its long-running late-night program and axing current host Stephen Colbert — another once-popular media personality whose hyper-partisan shift has led to massive losses.
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Crazy fun that Phil Hendrie. People who’ve never heard his show should look him up, he’s truly a one of a kind and no one will ever even try to duplicate his shtick.
I remember back when Stern was fighting to be #1 in Philadelphia back in the late 1980s / early 1990s. He was up against the #1 at the time - the Morning Zoo with John DeBella. Stern relentlessly mocked DeBella as hopelessly out of touch and mocked “Morning Zoos” as a relic of the past. He eventually won and held a massive party to celebrate, complete with song parodies and other bits that basically mocked Morning Zoos as a thing of the past and DeBella as a DJ who was a has been who should have retired a long time before. As the celebration ended with a song parody sing-along, Stern said, in what I viewed as a moment of candor, “I’m going to miss him” (meaning DeBella).
I feel the same way about Stern. I loved him in the late 1980s and into the 1990s when I listened to him. Now I enjoy the mockery of him as an out of touch has been who should have retired years ago. But I do look back a little wistfully at the loss of someone who I used to enjoy.
Still hoping that Jimmy Kimmel will soon be added to that sinking ship of fools. When it does happen that Kimmel loses his show, expect to hear Trump crow about it from Washington DC.
Sterns shows script was never that varied and now when people look for substance they note that there never was any.
He’s a nasty man. I was appalled when he was a judge on America’s Got Talent, a supposedly family-hour show that featured a fair number of child performers. They showed him palling around in the Green Room with some of the kids. Gross of AGT to make them think he was just harmless old hippie-haired uncle Howard.
Dana Plato could not be reached for comment.
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