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Aug. 19, 2025 - Lionel Nation

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INSIDERS: Howard Stern Already Signed His New Deal — Firing Rumors Are PURE BS!

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	I know what you were told and you know what I was told and we know what we were told that Howard Stern was through and finished and done, but you know how this guy is.
	He has always lived on manufactured spectacle like we care.
	The only thing we care about is that we despise him.
	Now for decades, he has basically destroyed and blurred and obfuscated the line between reality and performance and truth.
	between genuine and stage between real and illegitimate well today right now is no different the story that is swirling about is that his supposed downfall and exit at Sirius XM is nothing but another media rumor.
	It's a performance act, performative nonsense orchestrated by the man himself.
	That's right.
	Those are the rumors.
	The headlines claim that Stern may be on the chopping block, that the satellite radio giant might be, might actually be preparing to move from its most famous and highest paid star, that they're finally jetting him, that it's over with his woke nonsense.
	The whispers were loud and the speculation was dramatic and we're hanging on every word.
	Is it true?
	Is that son of a gun with a bad wig and the phony everything?
	Is he about to go?
	Well, the narrative was almost too neat, too perfect, too real.
	This legendary broadcaster, and he was, you know, past his prime, ready for the back nine is about to leave, to meet his fate with a thud.
	Well, according to multiple insiders and rumors abound, that story is complete.
	That's right.
	Two weeks ago, they say Stern quietly, what do they say, inked, signed his new multi-year Sirius XM contract.
	He's locked in, so they say, with another enormous payday, secured, and his run at the company will extend well beyond the expiration of his current deal in December of 2025.
	Yep, they're saying the deal is already done.
	And it's brilliant if you think about it.
	See, this is the rumor and strategy.
	You know, why then all the noise?
	Why not just shut down the speculation as soon as it, you know, popped up as soon as anybody heard of it.
	Because the answer is simple.
	Howard Stern understands the power of rumor better than anyone in modern broadcasting.
	It's professional wrestling.
	He is the consummate work.
	Instead of, you know, silencing or trying to kill the story, old Howie, you know, kind of leans into it, he perpetuates it, he milks it.
	He allowed the press to speculate about his demise, his through, about executives pulling the plug, about a future without him on serious.
	Oh my God, rather than deny it, he stoked it, feeding the media beast long enough to keep the chatter and the BS going.
	Could it be?
	Could it be?
	On Friday, his official show account or whatever released a, what they call a slick 45-second video trailer announcing that he will address his future on air September 2.
	And it wasn't just a promo or a tease.
	It was artful, deliberately well-played drama.
	The clip played like a classic Hollywood teaser.
	It was beautiful, complete with ominous voiceovers and TV sound bites about the guillotine coming, whatever.
	Anyway, and suggestions of chaos behind the scenes.
	Well, even longtime producers were dragged into the spectacle with a, you know, with a, I guess a cutesy, what do they call it, cheeky, bye bye buoy line or something like that.
	Well, it wasn't a denial.
	It wasn't even a clarification.
	It was theater, pure and simple.
	That's what they're saying.
	See the punch line waiting in the wings, wagging the dog, so to speaking see according to those in the know the September 2nd big reveal will not be a funeral for Stern's career.
	Oh no, no, no.
	It'll be the opposite.
	This legendary broadcaster, this behemoth will step behind the mic and announce the obvious.
	He isn't going anywhere.
	Haha, second.
	His contract is secure.
	His future is locked.
	And Sirius XM is still his home.
	This is what they're saying.
	Does that make sense?
	Could it be?
	But why spoil the fun by having, you know, this and saying that now?
	When the drama is driving headlines, when media outlets are fanning the flames, when fans are buzzing on social media, waiting, waiting to hear it from the man himself and to tear him apart and to dance on his grave.
	And his brilliance has always been his ability to control the narrative.
	And this is his latest master class.
	I don't know, could be the master of Buzz, the last, the master of BS.
	Hey, this isn't, as you know, new.
	From the inception, from the earliest days of his career, Howard Stern has weaponized artfully, beautifully controversy.
	He understood long before anyone else in radio that outrage translates to ratings, that curiosity drives listeners, and that the people love it.
	He is, in many actual ways, he is the architect, the grand, the IMP of the modern media stunt.
	And in this particular case, he's turning whispers and hints and references of cancellation into what might be the biggest ratings event of the year.
	It's brilliant.
	Then again, maybe not.
	I don't know.
	That's what they're saying.
	What do I know?
	That's why insiders are so confident.
	This isn't just about survival.
	It's about dominance.
	See, Stern isn't merely fending off rumors.
	He's harvesting them.
	He's spinning them into the promotional world of gold.
	You see, this is Stern.
	This is the business.
	Behind the theatrics is a very real business reality.
	Howard Stern is still the anchor tenant, if you will, of Sirius XM.
	Since signing his first deal with the company in 2004, he has been its biggest subscriber magnet, its cultural lightning rod, and its absolute most valuable, reliable star.
	And for years, his contracts have earned him upward of a hundred million dollars annually.
	And the new deal, insiders say, is still impressive.
	Perhaps maybe the number was adjusted with, I don't know, market conditions, but the point remains this.
	Sirius XM continues to rely on Stern.
	He is both a prestige figure and a subscription engine.
	Whatever his critics say about his waning influence, whatever they say, the satellite radio giant still sees him as indispensable.
	So it's about controlling the narrative.
	See, what makes this episode so fascinating is not simply the contract, but the way Stern is scripting the story of it.
	See, most celebrities try to smother rumors of their own cancellation.
	Oh no, no, he amplifies it.
	He revs it up.
	Most stars, most people hide contract negotiations behind closed doors.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	He turns them into cliffhangers.
	And by doing so, he reminds everyone, fans, detractors, people who hate them, love them, the industry reminds them that he is still the one pulling the strings.
	This has always been his gift.
	The ability to transform what looks like vulnerability into power.
	Remember in the eighties, it was FCC fines and censorship battles that made him a legend.
	In the nineties, it was the culture wars over his shock jock antics, whatever the hell that is.
	In the two thousand, it was the bold move to satellite radio, a gamble that critics said would end his career.
	He was a fool.
	But instead, it made him wealthier than ever.
	So now in the twenty twenties, it's the rumor of cancellation.
	That's what's doing it.
	Stern is recycling the old playbook.
	Take what looks like a threat, take what looks like a demise, and then turn it into a headline, into buzz, into must hear radio.
	It's brilliant if it's true.
	So why does it matter?
	The significance of this drama extends beyond Stern himself.
	In a case study in how modern media personalities can manipulate and kind of fix the news cycle.
	In a fragmented landscape where attention is the most precious commodity, ladies and gentlemen, Stern is once again proving he knows how to grab it and how to hold it.
	And at a time when legacy media outlets struggle to control narratives, when corporations try to stage manage celebrity announcements, Howard Stern demonstrates a different model.
	He creates his own suspense, his own cliffhangers, his own who shot JR, his own reveal his own gender reveal well whatever he dictates the terms not the press and that's why this contract story has legs and not because anyone actually believed that serious xm would walk away from him but because stern turned the possibility into a performance worth watching so the september 2 reveal so what happens on the second well
	there was the second of september a day you'll always remember Because insiders now are almost smug about it.
	Stern will get behind the mic with millions listening and he'll pull back the curtain.
	He'll cut down the rumor mill with a smirk, with a laugh.
	Ha ha, gotcha, booga, booga.
	Confirm he's not going anywhere.
	And he'll frame the entire spectacle as his punchline.
	It'll be a ratings bonanza.
	The media will cover it as if it were actual news.
	If you have what's going on, who cares about summits and Zelensky?
	It's Stern.
	And Stern himself will once again have reminded everyone why he has long lasted at what he does.
	Not because he avoids controversy, but because he creates it, he manufactures it, he packages it, he delivers it, and he sells it to every gullible schmuck who buys it.
	And the bigger picture is this.
	For Sirius XM, this means stability.
	Their most famous voice remains in-house.
	Their subscribers reassured, their investors calmed, and for Stern, it means maybe continued dominance, continued wealth, and continued relevance.
	And for the rest of us, I guess who care, it's a reminder of how media work in the age of personality-driven storytelling.
	I'm telling you, it's professional wrestling.
	The end of Howard Stern is not a fact, it's a script, one written by the man himself.
	Now when the curtain lifts, the only thing that will actually end is the speculation.
	So my friends, in peroration, as a valedictory, as a denounce, Howard Stern has always been more than just a broadcaster.
	You can hate him.
	Hell, I never listen to him.
	I've never heard a show ever, but I know who he is.
	I wasn't around during the Civil War, but I read about it.
	It was in all the papers.
	See, history is like that.
	You see, he is a performance artist, a provocateur, a master of manipulating attention.
	And the rumors of his demise at Sirius are just his latest act, a carefully staged production designed to maximize him.
	In reality, his contract is signed.
	So they say.
	His future secure, his role as the company's centerpiece intact.
	But why announce that plainly when you can turn it into a cliffhanger that dominates the news cycle?
	On September the 2nd, let's see what happens.
	See if the so-called guillotine will fall on Stern, but not on the rumor mill itself.
	And once again, Howard Stern will emerge.
	with the last laugh.
	So they say, so we hear.
	The biggest paycheck, the loudest headlines, it's genius.
	If you think about it, it makes complete.
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