Howard Stern, seen here with Robin Quivers in 1992, used to be able to tout massive ratings success. Don’t just take my word for it - endless Reddit threads and Facebook groups are devoted to carbon dating the show’s death, parsing over its comedic breadcrumbs and wondering why Stern even bothers anymore.
Today, it’s all too easy to predict what Stern will say next. Most common answer? ‘I want to see what he’ll say next.’” Mario Tama/Getty ImagesĪs for those who loathed Stern: “The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day. Answer most commonly given? ‘I want to see what he’ll say next.’” Howard Stern recently signed a five-year deal to remain at SiriusXM. The average Howard Stern fan listens for, are you ready for this, an hour and 20 minutes. “The average radio listener listens for 18 minutes. As memorialized by an analyst in Stern’s 1997 biopic “Private Parts”: Once upon a time, you could argue that would be fair compensation after all, one could never predict what Stern would do or say. That’s a salary of over $1 million per show. This is incredible, considering he works three days a week, Monday through Wednesday, broadcasting maybe three hours per day, about 112 shows per year with 253 days off. Stern, 67, renewed his contract with SiriusXM last December, signing for five years at a reported $120 million per. Also, Howard: This pandemic will end, even though you, a germophobic recluse, clearly wish it would not.īut such sentiments have defined Stern’s show and attitude this past year: pessimism, anger, and a worldview that shrinks ever inward, limited in size and scope to The Basement - the literal and metaphorical dwelling place of this once-great show. “I do not believe the pandemic will ever be over.”įor a once-constant listener like me, this is heretical, especially here in New York City, where every single neighborhood is struggling to survive. “Things will never get back to normal,” he declared just two weeks ago. The Howard Stern who stayed on air as planes flew into the World Trade Center is unrecognizable. Over one year later and now vaccinated, as he first admitted on-air Monday - back from yet another vacation - Stern still has no intention of ever returning to his Midtown studio, his luxury Upper West Side apartment, or any semblance of pre-pandemic life. In March 2020, when New York City officially went into lockdown, Stern fled to his basement in the Hamptons. “The Howard Stern Show,” long in decline, is dead. Good on Adele for celebrating female - not gender-neutral - achievement Hillary Clinton - the definition of insanityīen Affleck cranks up the cringe with new love video
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