But whatever you say Pedo the Great.

... now, who will keep track of which famous people "like anal?"

I doubt he cares too much at this point.

But he and Imus started the trend of lowbrow content catering to slubby dudes, which paved the way for Rogan and MAGA. I did see a free Metallica show paid by him back in the 1990s in Philly, but I will never forgive him for humiliating a rival morning DJ's estranged wife on air which basically lead to her prompt suicide.

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I in no way intended to characterize nor malign the entire peak cohort of his listeners, I was just ruminating on how these white shock jocks were like Limbaugh for a slightly younger cohort who listened to album orientated rock. Yes he did endorse both Hillary and Biden and has grown into a thoughtful interviewer. But I still feel he was a symptom of the powers that be allowing this type of radio host to thrive.

in Trump's early days. That, and Stern's objectification of women, will always sour my opinion of him.
He should retire anyway. Give it a long rest, Howard.

I imagine he could have stayed on for a pay cut (which would still be crazy money) but he's probably at a place where he can say why bother.

Maybe he'll make more movies or something.

He's made plenty of money, and he's done punching the clock.

new Hondas don't have SXM

But I don’t listen to Stern.

I doubt anyone on that channel makes as much $ as Stern so they're probably safe unless SXM wants a favor

Every day on my commute to & from work.

I don’t know channel numbers- I listen to the Beatles channel, Underground garage, and 40’s junction mostly.

The hilarious Dana Goldberg on with her for this hour every week. Thom Hartmann at 12-3pm EST. What a great radio station!

But I don't rely on Howard Stern for my progressive radio. Now if SiriusXM cancels the Progress channel, then it's buh-bye!

I bought my SXM radios (yes multiple), back in the early 2000's.
Back then you could by a radio for about $50 each with a $14.99/mo or $19.99/mo fee.
But they also had a special that if you paid $500 per radio, we'd get free monthly charge.

Doing the math at $14.99/mo is a little more than 33 months, to cover $500.
I put one in my car.
The other benefit is that you can transfer this account to a different radio twice. (This has changed to unlimited transfers)
This came in handy when I sold my car and purchased a new car.
I transferred the account from the old car radio into the new car radio.

I actually purchased 2 radios @ $500. The other was a handheld unit that used in the house.
But with SXM now supplying streaming, I rarely use the handheld, and when my daughter purchases a newer car,
I will transfer that handheld account to her car radio account.

Calculating the number of months which buying around 2003, let's just say that I've had each for about 22 years.
Calculating $14.99/mo plus $5/mo for the second unit (It has increased over the years, but they don't affect me).
264 months x $19.99 = $5,277.36
-$1,000 I paid, I'm guessing I've saved at least $4,277+

He has become one of the great interviewers of his generation.

He has evolved his on air persona from shock jock to something more closely aligned to the guy who wrote and acted in Private Parts which was a touching tribute to his first wife. He is smarter, better informed, and better prepared for interviews than most in media. He gets people to really open up.

He loves what he does everyday and he'll keep doing it for many more years.

Trump admitted to barging into the dressing room to look at naked teenaged girls at the Miss Teen USA pageant on the Stern show. Also said that sleeping around without getting VD was his way of contributing the Vietnam War effort. He was a friend of the show.

But Howard knew him as a total creep and psychopath, so he couldn't endorse him when he started running for office.

that has reported that. I think it is speculation.

Sirius and Stern may not reach agreement on financial terms, which will result in Sirius no longer carrying his show.

- $120 million a year for 5 yrs - 2020 to 2025. (Grok)

With the young all listening to podcasts, his audience is probably dropping.

He will probably just start podcasting like everyone else.

He’ll go out on his own terms.

He’s not that interesting compared to many new podcasters.

No confirmation from any legit source. Howard plays this game every time his contract is up for renewal.

Never liked him.

He made my skin crawl.

Sirius paid him a lot for exclusives but if that ends and he wants to continue doing this, there’s no reason he can’t start a podcast.

If he puts out all of his own material he will probably make more, and have total control.

From a high of nearly 10 million to 125 thousand.

I never liked his fake macho pandering to midling and low IQ fans from his start in syndication. But how he went after rival AOR DJ John DaBella should earn him a spot down below. Philly had a tripple of coexisting radio stations, 93.3 WMMR, and 94.1 in Philly doing Album Oriented Rock with slightly different focuses, WMMR was more progressive rock, and 94 a little harder rock, but heavy overlap. There was 93.7 out of Wilmington Delaware doing a mix of Pop and Rock, so Philly had a culture of channel shifting and the three could thrive mutually. But Stern was hyped up and greedy and he went for the kill and did the unspeakable he pulled his "rival" dj John Debella's estranged wife into being humiliated leaving her dead of a suicide or simple depression caused drug overdose.

https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2005/nov/03/howard-stern-called-me-out/

But back in 1992, as his show spread from its Manhattan base like some syndicated STD, Stern was still warring with DJs daring to occupy his top ratings spot, arriving city by city to mock 'em, shock-jock 'em and knock 'em on their ass. And topped off by symbolic, public "funerals," the humiliating cherry on the sundae of professional degradation.
(snip)

Fall '92. Philadelphia. Against top-rated John DeBella, Stern launches an utterly ruthless assault that even seasoned, seen-it-all radio vets label "brutal." Stern's bludgeoning instrument of choice is the anguished marital woes of John and Annette DeBella, already painfully chronicled by local press. Stern stages a "Divorce Party" at Independence Mall. Fans in flatbed trucks parked below DeBella's station scream, "I f--ked your wife!" DeBella is s burned in effigy. Stern caps the cruelty by paying Annette $5,000 to guest on a car wreck of a show in which the troubled woman—sounding disoriented and unstable, as the host must have noticed—responds to Stern's prompts like some Pavlovian mutt, ridiculing her husband's endowment and bedroom skills, among other niceties.

A month later, Annette DeBella's body is discovered. After a drunken night around town, she passed out in her car after pulling into the DeBellas' garage. The door was shut, the engine was running; she died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Cops rule it a suicide, though Stern argues it could have been accidental.

I remember this, being from Philly, but not all the sordid details. Completely unforgivable.

Stern will leave when he decides to do so.

Before Sirius, he was a shock jock on morning radio and his arch-rival in Philly was John DiBella. While this rivalry was going on, DiBella’s wife took her own life. Howard Stern *made jokes about this on the air.* Insufferable asshole. Hated him ever since.

But that incident upped my level of loathing dramatically.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20542949

Back on air live September 2nd and contract up at the end of the year.

While I didn’t catch his whole broadcast, it mainly focused on Ozzy’s death. He did not discuss his future beyond this year.

I remember reading an article saying something along the direction you are going with this thread. IMHO, it’s just a click and bait. No one interviewed Howard directly, and Howard generally hates most journalists. Probably because they did the same thing this person did, make 💩 up and speculate. It’s just poor journalism.

To say Stern is “fading”, being cancelled for poor ratings or anything else without actually interviewing Howard or anyone relevant to his story is disrespectful. Whatever you want to say about him he’s still one of the most accomplished DJs/entertainers around bar none. I respect what he’s done for 5 decades and will be sorry to see him go.

and boasting about Ivanka's sexiness. They talked about sex a LOT.

kept up the service for years. Hope the new owner figured it out and enjoys it. Theft of service possibly and I try to be honest but there is a limit.

I never liked Stern, he creeped me out, but wow.

I just turned 73 and I can tell you young folk what i have seen as a lifelong voter. Indeed I was one of the 1rdt 18 year old who were allowed to vote after they reduced it from being 21 and have voted in almost every local and national election since. As I have watched the Republicans take power over and over, the pattern is set: they only see the elite, to hell with the rest of us, So over 50+ decades of voting history. it has only gotten worse and now it has evolved into this.

Now I know why my mama taught me to never *ever* trust a Republican. I didn't believe her as a youth, although I voted a straight Dem ticket all those years. It just seemed that the Dems always got it (sometimes) better than any Repug.

So hey, Rachael Maddow is right; we ARE in a dictatorship, take it from one of your elders.

Cat in Seattle

Sampled it a bit on a ride once and it wasn't much better than the radio in terms of selection.

Really goes to show how much streaming services have opened up music. We get individually tailored channels rather than watered down consensus programming.

I'm not enough of a bro to listen to Stern but he was anti-Trump so I hope he finds another spot to continue.

I really don't care if it was decades ago but him doing blackface was foul. Eff him.

channels. Four, if you count PRX (which is a good listen). Now there is one channel.

When there are a gazillion free podcasts. Stern was always creepy when talking about women and sex. Never liked him.

It was and is worth it to me.

And these: https://www.siriusxm.ca/canadian-channels/

They had a game show that featured Canadian comics "debating" topics for comedic effect. I can't remember the name of the show, and I'm not sure if it even exists anymore, but I enjoyed it. Maybe I need to give 169 another listen at lunchtime.

There was as another show that I believed aired right after, so I'd catch the last part of The Debaters and the first part of the next show. They would feature shows from the CBC radio archives, like old game shows, or political or news coverage. It was interesting, even if I was never familiar with any of the shows or their topics.

There is so much good stuff. In the evenings and sometimes in the afternoons there is a show called Ideas that covers a lot of intellectual ground: history, science, philosophy, language, economics, culture, jurisprudence, hope, ongoing PhD research, and much more.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas 60 years
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks Multiple interviews with the key researchers of new research, 50 some years
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence 20 years

He could win.

He’s to crass

Pop on Youtube, see a two minute Shock vid, done. No need to subscribe or pay for a service like Stern when his kind are available with a few fingerstrokes of a keyboard.

I won't miss him. Thought Stern was an arrogant jerk, just not as much an asshole like Trump.

Chef’s kiss. Congrats to all! 😂

One time Stern said he was planning to quit but it was just a negotiating ploy. Apparently if the show ends, Serious XM will lose 15% of its subscribers, which will hit the company in various ways, including lost advertising revenue. Granted, at 71 Stern doesn't need the show any more but things aren't ways what they seem.

I wonder if they gave him the opportunity to retire.

I used to listen for years. Then came Covid and he locked himself in his house and just lost touch with who his listeners are. Even his interviews are talked over constantly by Howard. He’s not a great interviewer. The entire thing became unbearable.

Stern hadn't left his house in four years because he scared of every germ in the western hemisphere.

And we should all be scared. The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and increasingly fewer people are willing and even legally able to receive their vaccines. Even now, many medical figures don't mask any more, but at the same time acknowledge that droplet theory was invalidated.

I'm not and I don't give it another thought until I read stuff like this about Stern.

He has been wanting to quit for a long time, I got the impression he stayed to keep all his employees working. He cares about all of them. I noticed he changed after he got married, he is softer, he loves all the cats his wife brings home to foster.

I have a feeling he won't try for another contract, he is ready to do something new.

I think Trump has based himself around the Stern model. In it's simplest form, the model is this: say outrageous things and keep saying them. People eventually get used to it and then you can say even more outrageous things.

It's like the story of the frog slowly being boiled.

a lot of his listeners were average working men who weren't going to pay for radio.