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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | BREAKING: Howard Stern Canceled?!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Is Howard Stern next on the media chopping block? Don sits down with Senior Investigations & Exclusives Reporter for The Sun, Jessica Finn, to explore the rumors that SiriusXM may be preparing to cancel The Howard Stern Show as his contract nears its end. In this conversation, they dive into what’s really going on behind the scenes, why Stern’s potential cancellation matters, and whether we’re seeing a larger pattern of media companies silencing or sidelining left-leaning voices. Is this about ratings, or is there something more political at play? Let’s break it down. This episode is brought to you by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMONDROPS and use LEMONDROPS at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash UK slash AI for people. So the headline that I am reading right now from The Sun and Jessica Finn is that the iconic Howard Stern show on Sirius XM is set to be canceled after a stunning 20-year run.

0:55.8

Sources exclusively told the U.S. Sun and, as I said, Jessica Finn.

1:02.4

Jessica, what's going on to?

1:03.7

This is breaking news.

1:05.4

Yeah, we broke it today.

1:07.6

It's kind of, I guess, surprising but unsurprising news to a lot of his fans. I mean, the guy has been doing radio since, essentially, since the late 70s, but really became popular in the mid-80s. He is 71 years old. This is his fourth five-year contract with Sirius. He's always done five-year contracts over the course of his

1:28.4

serious career. And it is set to expire this fall. And as you know, as we all know in media

1:36.0

these days, people are not getting the big bucks that they once were for whatever reason,

1:42.8

for a plethora of different reasons, from dwindling audiences

1:46.5

to other reasons. Let's just put it that way for now. And he has been commanding $100 million

1:57.0

a year, like a year. That's how much his contract has been over the last five years.

2:03.6

It has started at around 80 million a year and it's gone up to 100.

2:08.6

And so it's really hard to fathom to continue to pay somebody like that in this climate,

2:15.8

in this media climate. And that's kind of what my sources have told me is that Sirius is ready to make him an offer,

2:23.6

but it's essentially going to be an offer that he can refuse.

2:26.7

You know, it's going to be one of these, like, low ball offers that they're absolutely expecting

2:30.6

him not to take.

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