a summer break in September,<\/a> which led to speculation that his long run at SiriusXM may be coming to an end. He said reports that he was exiting led to other companies reaching out to him about taking on his long-running program.<\/p>\nSiriusXM did not disclose the terms of Stern\u2019s new deal. His expiring pact reportedly pays him $100 million a year.<\/p>\n
While SiriusXM has always supported Stern and acknowledged the value he brings to the company, the competition from audio podcasts and other digital media had executives saying that any new deal had to make financial sense.<\/p>\n
SiriusXM has diversified its offerings in recent years, becoming the home of such top podcasts as \u201cCall Her Daddy,\u201d \u201cSmartLess,\u201d \u201cFreakonomics Radio,\u201d \u201cLast Podcast on the Left,\u201d \u201c99% Invisible\u201d and \u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend.\u201d The service also offers shows from such personalities as Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart and Stephen A. Smith.<\/p>\n
Stern rose to national fame in the 1980s during his 20-year stint at the then-WXRK in New York. At its peak, \u201cThe Howard Stern Show\u201d was syndicated in 60 markets and drew more than 20 million listeners.<\/p>\n
Stern was lured to satellite radio by a lucrative payday and a lack of censorship. He had run afoul of the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s regulations on broadcast content.<\/p>\n
While his intimate interviews with celebrities still make news, he is now seen as a member of the mainstream media and the liberal show business establishment. The audience of young men who made Stern a major star are now being drawn to podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe \u2014 the perceived influencers of the so-called manosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed King of All Media, will reign for three more years at SiriusXM. The satellite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[53164,53157,53162,48,52,51,4461,47,50,49,53159,29898,4694,45944,53165,53158,53156,53161,10607,53163,53160],"class_list":["post-97002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-audio-podcast","tag-howard-stern","tag-kevin-hart","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-listener","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-more-year","tag-new-deal","tag-new-york","tag-other-company","tag-other-digital-medium","tag-satellite-radio-company","tag-siriusxm","tag-stephen-a-smith","tag-stern","tag-such-personality","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}