Nope, it's on Fox. It'll air in the fall/winter, AI in the winter/spring and SYTYCD in the summer.

I'm in denial that he'll leave the radio at the end of this year.

I always wished Stern went to Late Night TV. All of the late night shows are by-the-book shows, (Monologue/Bit/Guest/2nd Guest/Musical Band) and the interviews are so bland, "So Jennifer Aniston, I heard you went to Europe this summer, how was it??" BORRRRING!!

Stern interviews are great because he has the balls to ask the question nobody else will, and there are some actors (Tom Cruise, etc) that would never appear on his show, there is still enough 'A' list stars that would appear.

Oh well, it probably would never happen.....

I really miss the E show. I used to watch that all the time, instead of regular late night shows. Stern is rude, and asks questions that most of us have no business knowing, but if you go on his show you kind of have to understand that's how he rolls. And it certainly is entertaining most of the time. At least it was.

i think he's gone. he's said a few things in the past month or so that makes me believe he's made his decision to leave.

If he doesn't re-sign with sirius and decides to retire, hopefully he will sign a deal to broadcast his archives. Right now, they only play one old show per week on sunday afternoons. He has enough material in the can to last for years.

Then subscribe to Howard TV. E! only gave us 22 min. of edited content each day while HTV gives us 40-60 shows per month. Plus a dozen or so additional repeats for new customers each month.

If Howard does bail after his contract is up my guess is he'll be back soon at least for a couple days a week. He won't be able to stay away from commenting about what's going on in the news.

Regular TV won't work for him. He can't conform to it. Even though all the crazy stuff you can do now is based on the rules he broke in the early '90's on the Channel 9 show and the E! show. He can't take a step backward from his Sirius/HTV material and do vanilla television. That's like going back to Terrestrial Radio. It won't happen. He'll retire. Go apeshit crazy. Then come back to Sirius for 2 or 3 days a week. Maybe in the afternoons. He has nothing more to prove to anyone.

Yeah, I agree. This is SO unlike what he did back in the late 90s and then during that next contract. The whole "I'm going to retire after this contract" shtick is as predictable as Robin and Gary agreeing with everything he says.

Oh, so you mean the show will basically be unchanged.

The whole problem with him being on Idol is that Simon makes the show. He is blatant and honest. And what gives him the right to say that is that he's in the music business. They can't just hire some guy to be "edgy" to fill that role. They need to find someone who has relevancy to MUSIC. And unfortunately for the guy who is flailing around trying to find some sort of leverage for a next contract, that person is not Howard Stern.

@Steam

+1 on both points.

Howard actually made the move to Sirius last time, but that was because of the ridiculous contract Sirius threw at him. Sirius isn't in any position to match that contract this time around, but I think Stern will resign at a lower price without revealing the size of the contract.

As for Idol, I don't watch the show, but wasn't it announced that Ellen would be joining the show? I know it's a ratings juggernaut and it may not matter but I would hope they would try to have at least the majority of the judges have some basis to be judging a music competition. I don't know if Stern would work as just an opinionated ass without any authority on the subject, but I'm sure he won't be able to fill Simon's seat as lead judge.

I forgot about the Channel 9 show! It was only on for 2 years, but it was a great show, very edgy for 1990-91. I just remember Kenneth Keith Kallanbach lighting a fire cracker up in his pants!

I was referring to the time in the late 90s (I think '98) when he was ending that contract and kept saying that that was it. Then he had a press conference around the Friday of their last show before winter break to announce that he was not retiring but staying. Tension was played up leading up to that. Then during that contract and after all of the FCC stuff with Janet Jackson and all of his talk about the 2004 election (and actually even way before that) he kept saying that this was it for him. Then he signed with Sirius. Are we supposed to be shocked that he's pulling the same stunt again? That's what he does. He is just trying to drum up some sort of competition for Sirius in contract negotiations. Between this American Idol nonsense and the rumors of going back to terrestrial that's all he is doing. Its as predictable as his ground breaking celebrity interviews.

As for American Idol, you are right, Ellen has nothing to do with music either and that is a problem, but the fact that she is just replacing Paula, who while she has a musical background her main contribution to the show (besides being batshit crazy) was just being supportive of the contestants. I think that Ellen can manage that. But I am definitely in agreement with you, the show should concentrate on having judges who are qualified to judge music.

Randy isn't qualified either. He never said anything more constructive that what Paula blathered on about.

If the topic isn't about playing bass for Journey, he's out of his element.

Someone asked him a few months back and he said that he personally makes 7 million a year. He didn't seem like he was joking or making it up either. He has always maintained that the 500 million figure was false but I had never heard him give a specific amount until then.

Maybe $7 million per year on top of stock options?

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looks like someone already had it covered.

Haven't heard todays show for myself, but:
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=456958&GT1=28103

that's very misleading. he neither confirmed nor denied that they had talked to him. he then proceeded to talk about how he would change the show for an hour.

I figured as much, that's why I want to hear it for myself. But as it stands, I am still backlogged to the 1/28 show.

Same here, but I'm just now up to January. And this is after trying hard to get caught up after hearing the news about Artie. I was 3-4 months behind until recently.

But at least his career was in music. Replacing Simon with someone who has no idea about the music industry would be extremely asinine.

So, instead of contributing to the thread in a normal manner and retorting to comments and opinions like others before you, you come up with this? Yeah, for some reason, that sounds about right.

Howard was a disc jockey for MANY MANY years before he moved on to simply being a radio personality. He definitely knows music. I'm not necessarily advocating him, even though I would watch the show regularly if he came on and now I really couldn't care less about it and will care even less once Simon leaves. However, even though he's not actually in the music business like Paula and Randy are/were, he does know music and is a billion times smarter, funnier and more interesting than both of them put together. And to those of you that think he's a vulgar pig, you really should do a little research on him. He's known to be a great guy and his on-air persona is just an act. He's been playing a character all these years and he'd just play a different character on Idol.

Finally, this came from Howard's mouth, so who knows for sure if it's true, but he claims he more or less invented American Idol like 20 years ago. He put a panel of music experts together and then brought aspiring singers into his radio studio and they sang for the panel and the best one was given a record deal. He also claims to have invented "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" I don't know about that one though because he says he's tried to sue, but lawyers say it's impossible to prove, even though there are tapes to prove it. He even called it Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader. If he actually has tapes, I don't see how that wouldn't be a slam dunk case. He was just talking about that last week I think, but kinda glossed over it.

Yet more of his shtick, the "I invented everything" routine. He takes credit for The Osbournes as well. Its odd that for a guy who is such a visionary that he stole a bit from another radio show this past week.

The guy has had a great career, but is just a product of his name and the hype that he is trying to generate on his own at this point. He is trying his best to make it appear there is a market for his "talent" in order to get some leverage against SiriusXM. More power to him, but anyone who has followed the guy's career ought to be able to see this.

What did he steal?

Any why do you think he's trying to leverage against Sirius? He's had a long career. He has a lot of money and he doesn't need to do anything anymore, but at the same time it's hard to just give it up, especially when he's still very popular. I don't blame him for not knowing what he's going to do next year. He doesn't even need to make a decision for a while still. I don't think this has anything to do with Sirius. Him talking about "fixing" Idol is simply good radio. Maybe he'll resign and maybe he won't, but I personally don't think this Idol talk has anything to do with it.