The Stern Show isn’t going anywhere just yet!
The Howard Stern and SiriusXM relationship may now be a lifetime affair. Since leaving terrestrial radio nearly a decade ago, the King of all Media has broken barriers and opened doors for fellow disc jockeys and podcast creators. Now, the legendary shock jock has agreed to a new 12-year contract with the satellite radio operator, to keep his long-time show on the air through 2020.
His current deal was originally set to expire at the end of this month, but Sirius XM Radio convinced Stern to remain with the company for another few years and postpone his retirement – like fellow friend David Letterman finalized earlier this year. The big eye raiser of the deal, however, is both sides agreeing to further its video streaming pact; which SiriusXM plans to develop a new app that will feature content from his career archives of performances and shows.
The Howard Stern Show will continue to air every morning (or every other morning) like its traditional four-hour format we’re accustomed to. Take a look at the press statement below.
“Now let me tell you why I’m excited about this. This deal that I have with Sirius … enables us now to move really into the future – not only to continue to bring you radio for the next five years, but there’s an excitement about an app we’ll be developing that will now include video streaming of the show!”
“This morning I am very very pleased to announce and excited to announce that we’ll be here for the next five years. As a broadcaster, it does not get better than working at SiriusXM and I’m truly excited for the future with this great company. I happen to think that its best days are ahead. So, if you are not listening to SiriusXM and The Howard Stern Show, then you are really more like a zombie, a rotting corpse monster, living half a life, deadened and blackened inside.”
“It’s as if you were still watching black and white television while shopping in actual stores on your way to the post office to fax a memo. The good people here at Sirius like me very much and they would like me to do the show some more,” he said in June while announcing his departure from “AGT.”