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Howard Stern signs 5 year contract extension to stay with Sirius XM Radio
(HMG) – As we reported previously, as America’s highest-paid radio personality, Howard Stern’s own exclusive Sirius XM Radio deal expires next January.
While Stern perhaps once considered jumping to American Idol” to replace Simon Cowell as a judge on the show, it looks like he’ll be staying on Sirius XM for a long time to come.
The shock jock announced on his show Thursday that he has signed a new five-year contract , which runs through the end of 2015, and provides that Sirius XM can now transmit Stern’s show to mobile devices. No other terms will be disclosed, the company said.
On my first day in satellite radio Sirius had approximately 600,000 subscribers. Today, the two companies have 20 million, and, in my view, we have just scratched the surface of how many people will get on board,” Stern, 56, said in a statement.
