BREAKING: Howard Stern’s show is now being canceled by SiriusXM.
pic.twitter.com/koUMrCxkSo— The General (@GeneralMCNews) August 6, 2025
Posted on 08/07/2025 10:16:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
A big, explosive controversy that’s impossible to ignore! A jaw-dropping confession that outraged his corporate bosses! Or maybe he’d finally suffer the consequences of speaking “truth to power” — and pay the ultimate price for refusing to back down!
That’s how “The Howard Stern Show” was supposed to end.
This November marks the 100th anniversary of TS Eliot’s haunting poem, “The Hollow Men.” It’s a telling coincidence, for it foretold not just the fate of the world, but of a certain shock-jock: “This is the way the [Howard Stern Show] ends; Now with a bang but a whimper.”
This week, the news broke:
BREAKING: Howard Stern’s show is now being canceled by SiriusXM.
pic.twitter.com/koUMrCxkSo— The General (@GeneralMCNews) August 6, 2025
But calling it a whimper would be an overstatement. It was more of a “tree falling in a forest when no one’s around” situation, because Howard Stern’s audience abandoned him years ago: "Stern’s program has fluctuated from 20 million daily to just 125,000 of late."
That’s an astonishing fall from grace. There are, quite literally, thousands of nameless, faceless YouTubers, TikTokers, X posters, and “influencers” with far larger audiences than the one-time “King of All Media.” During his heyday, 20 million Americans famously listened to Howard Stern to “see what he says next”:
And now he’s a nobody.
Of course, he’s a very wealthy nobody. If your bank account is the only litmus test that matters, then Howard Stern is the greatest, most successful radio personality of all time. He made more money than everyone else, including Rush Limbaugh.
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It’s a fascinating comparison: More than any other two people, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern were the public faces of American talk radio. They even shared the cover of Time Magazine. Both men made hundreds of millions of dollars — more money than they could spend in any one lifetime.
But whereas Rush Limbaugh concentrated on visibility — being on as many stations in as many regions as possible and then charging advertisers a higher ad-rate — Howard Stern retreated behind a paywall. Sirius (later SiriusXM) threw obscene sums of money at Stern to perform exclusively on its platform:
Between salary earnings, endorsement deals, and book royalties, Stern has reportedly earned over $1 billion during his tenure with SiriusXM alone. His current five-year deal, signed in 2020, pays him up to $120 million annually, though that figure includes production costs and staff salaries.
How bloated is this $120 million-a-year radio show(!) with an anemic audience of only 125,000 people? A recent Daily Mail article offered a clue: "Howard Stern's 95-strong staff had only one goal in mind when they gathered for a 'team building' bash in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon."
Are you kidding me? Nearly 100 employees are working on a show to entertain an audience of 125,000 people? And Sirius/XM is paying $120 million for that? How the hell does the math make sense?
Maybe the executives at Sirius/XM attended Harvard Business School?
Sad-pathetic? Come on! Crying all the way to the bank.
He was a jerk and an arse...he thought he was being edgy when he was just an immoral loudmouth...
That kind of acumen is right up there with Bud Light proffering Dylan Mulvaney.
Bye bye howard. Good riddance. You marxist-hedonist fool.
May every TDS anti-MAGA antichrist dip meet the same end.
I think they would be willing to keep him on at a far lower salary. Of course he wouldn’t accept that.
Don’t forget a degenerate! I never could abide him
NYC at its worst.
He set Dana Plato on the path to hopelessness and suicide when he had her on his show and he told callers to roast her.
She died of an overdose the next day.
He won’t be missed.
Every time Howard Stern’s contract is up, he plays this game. His PR folks gin up the idea that he is gone only for him to reemerge.
Should be: The Sad, Pathetic, Beginning, Middle and End of Howard Stern
I’m pretty sure his deal give his two channels that he has to provide programming for. Jackie Martling had his own show at one points, Some others.
He of no redeeming social value.
I only knew one person in my life who subscribed to Sirius radio, and they kept their radio set on display like a trophy. Don’t know if they listened to Howard Stern.
As far as I was concerned, he was always a nobody.
I think he’s really gone this time. It was Sirius that made the announcement.
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Now that Sirius/XM is dumping this contract, will I see a decrease in my subscription rate?
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