LEMON DROP | BREAKING: Howard Stern Canceled?!
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Is Howard Stern’s SiriusXM contract really ending and what did The Sun report?
So the headline that I am reading right now from The Sun and Jessica Finn is that the iconic Howard Stern show on Sirius XM is set to be canceled after a stunning 20 year run. Sources exclusively told the U.S. Sun. And as I said, Jessica Finn, Jessica, what's going on? This is breaking news.
Yeah, we broke it today. It's kind of, I guess, surprising but unsurprising news to a lot of his fans. I mean, the guy has been doing radio essentially since the late 70s, but really became popular in the mid-80s. He is 71 years old. This is his fourth five-year contract with Sirius. He's always done five-year contracts over the course of his Sirius career. And it is set to expire this fall. um and as you know as we all know in media these days people are not getting the big bucks that they once were um for whatever reason for a plethora of different reasons um from dwindling audiences uh to other uh other reasons let's just put it that way for now um and he has been commanding a hundred million dollars a year like
a year that's how much his contract has been over the last five years it has it started at around 80 million a year and it's gone up to a hundred um and so it's really hard to fathom to continue to pay somebody like that um in this climate in this media climate and that's kind of what my sources have told me is that Sirius is ready to make him an offer, but it's essentially going to be an offer that he can refuse. You know, it's going to be one of these like lowball offers that they're absolutely expecting him not to take. My source also said that there's going to be some sort of discussion about purchasing his catalog. Now, right now. Curious has rights to his catalog till 2027. That was something that came out during the initial reporting on his contract when this contract was signed in 2020, that they have some sort of rights to continue to use his catalog till 2027.
But my source is saying that there's going to be some sort, there's an expectation that there will be some sort of negotiation for Sirius to possibly own his catalog for either a longer period of time or to own it outright. That's going to be kind of part of this exit package, I think, is probably the way we can look at it.
Now, I know that there's Howard 100, Howard 101, which is sort of the, you know, the best of on the 101s. But I'm just I'm wondering if they're going to obviously there will be there will probably play all episodes forever and people will listen to them because a lot of them are evergreen and they're still really funny. But here let's just for clarification. The iconic Howard Stern show and Sirius XM is set to be canceled now. You know, and you have that in soft quotes, but it seems like he's not renewing his contract. So is it being canceled or is he just saying, I'm stepping down unless you pay me a hundred million dollars, I'm not going to take anything less that happens. That doesn't mean he's canceled.
That means he's saying, I don't want to do this anymore.
yeah i mean like i would stop i would like i would stop short of saying like he's retiring because we don't know what's next for him you know they have again they have rights to his catalog until 2027 so it's kind of uh it's like a difficult kind of wording process because just because they can't come to an agreement which is essentially what this is they're going to make him an offer they know he's not going to take it and so he's going to back out so what else is it it's really effectively cancelled like i'm not going to pay you what you think you deserve and so we're not going to be able to continue to put you on the air anymore so that's kind of you know without any other real wording for you know him stepping i guess you could say he steps away but they still have this they still have his his actual catalog for another couple of years beyond this um so it's kind of a tough uh tough thing to call and he certainly isn't necessarily retiring because who knows what's what's next for him
Sirius and Cern are never going to meet on the money he's going to want.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Is Howard Stern’s SiriusXM contract really ending and what did The Sun report?
0:12–7:48
2
How much did Howard Stern earn and why might SiriusXM refuse to renew his deal?
7:48–11:39
3
Could SiriusXM try to buy Howard Stern’s catalog and what are the rights details?
11:39–15:18
4
Is Howard Stern being ‘canceled’ or is he choosing to step away?
15:18–18:37