Radio host Howard Stern has responded to rumors that his show was cancelled.

After being off the radio for several weeks due to contract disputes, radio host Howard Stern found himself surrounded by rumors that his show had been canceled by SiriusXM.

In his latest show, Stern shared that he was reading newspaper rumors about his cancellation and claimed they were completely false.

ABC News reported more on Stern’s latest announcement:

Howard Stern returned on Monday to his popular show on SiriusXM to address questions about the future of “The Howard Stern Show.”

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The radio legend had been off the air, raising speculation about a potential departure from the satellite radio service. He had been expected to address that speculation on Monday.

“Fired? Retiring? Canceled? Bye-Bye Booey?” the show said in a promo for the Monday broadcast. “Howard Stern will speak.”

But his Monday show was anything but routine.

The show began with Andy Cohen, the TV host and producer, announcing he’d be taking over Stern’s channel. The pair let the news spread for a few moments — then Stern jumped on to clarify that Cohen had been joking.

It wasn’t immediately clear how long Stern would be staying with the show. But he did seek to set the record straight.

“Everything in the paper that you’ve been reading about me or about Robin is completely false,” Stern said, referencing Robin Quivers, a co-host of the show.

“I’ve been thinking about retiring,” Stern continued. “Now I can’t, because then they’ll say I got pushed out. So, I’ll be back. Here’s the truth: SiriusXM and my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future. They’ve approached me, they’ve sat down with me, like they normally do, and they’re fantastic.”

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WRIC had these details to share SiriusXM’s slow downfall:

SiriusXM in the years after Stern joined has become home to top podcasts “Call Her Daddy,” “SmartLess,” “Freakonomics Radio,” “Last Podcast on the Left,” “99% Invisible” and “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” and features such personalities as Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart and Stephen A. Smith.

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But SiriusXM’s subscriber base has been slowly contracting, with the company reporting 33 million paid subscribers in the second quarter of 2025, a net loss of 68,000 from the first quarter and 100,000 fewer than the same period in 2024. It is a battling a saturated satellite market and competition from free, ad-supported platforms like Spotify.

Stern extended his contract with SiriusXM twice before, in 2010 and again in 2020 with a five-year, $500 million deal, Forbes reported. He’s recently had newsy and intimate chats with Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen.

“He’s been with me and the company going on two decades, and so he’s pretty happy, but he’s also able, like many great artists, to stop whenever he wants,” SiriusXM president and chief content officer Scott Greenstein told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024. “Nobody will ever replace them. We would never try to replace them.”

Stern, who has liked to call himself the King of All Media, rose to national fame in the 1980s during his 20-year stint at the then-WXRK in New York. At its peak, “The Howard Stern Show” was syndicated in 60 markets and drew over 20 million listeners. Stern was lured to satellite radio by the lucrative payday and a lack of censorship, following bruising indecency battles with the Federal Communications Commission and skittish radio executives. His past on-air bits had included parading strippers through his New York studio and persuading the band then known as The Dixie Chicks to reveal intimate details about their sex lives.

His 1997 film “Private Parts” became a box office hit and offered a raw, humorous look at his rise to fame. He has also authored several bestselling books and served as a judge on “America’s Got Talent” from 2012 to 2015.

 

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