{"id":57877,"date":"2025-08-10T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57877\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:14:07","slug":"howard-stern-has-a-new-enemy-at-siriusxm-as-exit-rumors-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57877\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Stern Has a New Enemy at SiriusXM as Exit Rumors Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard Stern is no fan of his younger rival at SiriusXM. <\/p>\n

Stern can\u2019t stand SiriusXM colleague Alex Cooper, the host of the podcasting behemoth Call Her Daddy, because of how big her empire has gotten, according to the U.S. Sun<\/a>. The animosity runs so deep that SiriusXM works to keep them apart whenever the Los Angeles-based Cooper visits SiriusXM\u2019s New York offices, according to the paper.<\/p>\n

The news comes after a Sun report<\/a> that Stern will likely leave his long-running show after his current five-year, $500 million deal with SiriusXM expires at the end of this year. According to the Sun, SiriusXM likely won\u2019t meet Stern\u2019s financial terms.<\/p>\n

A SiriusXM spokesperson did not respond to an immediate request for comment. A representative for Cooper did not respond to an immediate request for comment. The Daily Beast has also approached Stern\u2019s management company for comment.<\/p>\n

\"CallCall Her Daddy host Alex Cooper’s massive success has rankled Howard Stern, the “Sun” reports. Michael M. Santiago\/Getty <\/p>\n

Stern\u2019s frustration with Cooper stems from her success, according to the paper. \u201cShe gets hundreds of millions of hits, she has this mega $125 million deal, and he hates that this young bubbly woman is the big new thing,\u201d a source told the Sun.<\/p>\n

Cooper brought<\/a> the relationship and sex-focused Call Her Daddy, which was launched in 2018, from Spotify to SiriusXM last year in a three-year, $125 million deal. The deal was more than double Cooper\u2019s Spotify arrangement.<\/p>\n

Since then, she has interviewed former Vice President Kamala Harris and singer Katy Perry.<\/p>\n

Stern\u2019s frustrations also extend to Bravo titan Andy Cohen, who has two channels on the satellite radio network. \u201cAndy\u2019s interviews are regularly promoted by Sirius, while you just don\u2019t hear much about Howard\u2019s interviews these days,\u201d another source told the Sun. <\/p>\n

A representative for Cohen did not respond to an immediate request for comment.<\/p>\n

\"HowardStern promised listeners last week he’d return to the airwaves once his summer break ended. Bryan Bedder\/Getty <\/p>\n

Stern has not addressed any element of the Sun\u2019s reporting. During a surprise episode of his show last week, which featured an interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, Stern promised<\/a> he would return on Sept. 2 once his summer break ends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be back though, very soon,\u201c he said. \u201dWe\u2019ll be back on the air, live. I\u2019ve been refueling, so to speak.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard Stern is no fan of his younger rival at SiriusXM. Stern can\u2019t stand SiriusXM colleague Alex Cooper,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,40719,136,47488],"class_list":{"0":"post-57877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-howard-stern","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-sirius-xm-radio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}