Well, it seems like Boss Witz agreed to one of Howard Stern's demands as a condition of retirement and that was getting him back on cable TV by brokering a deal with HBO Max since SiriusXM already has a contract with them.
So, it's onto a repeat of his Senior Scooter Stern Rain Man Radio Show on cable TV that's just the same boring broadcast time after time because nothing ever changes for Stern. He is like the Rain Man, same routine over and over again, same stale ideas he won't let die.
Reboot of the Reboot of
Rain Man Radio
The stale Stern show on cable TV is just a reboot of the old E! Channel format that Howard copied to Howard TV, where his weekly radio show is videotaped and edited for broadcast on cable TV, and now his old music specials that were on the defunct Howard 101 can be dumped onto HBO Max.
Plus, following Howard's three-year contract extension ending at midnight, December 31, 2028, insiders who are not close to the situation, say that Boss Witz agreed to his contract extension only if Howard agreed to cutting Howard 101 and only continue with Howard 100 and, at the time, his 2-day per week schedule for live shows. [Ref: BFP 4-28-26 and 5-14-26.]
But since Howard wants back on television, Boss Witz gave the greenlight if Howard agreed to now only produce one live useless show per week to not add to the huge backlog of useless show tapes that Sirius already controls.
As long stated on this blog, Howard has a wish list of conditions before he will agree to retire [Ref BFP 4-3-23 and 6-20-23], but as blogged about on 5-14-26, Stern's updated wish list includes, but is not limited to: 1) a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; 2) a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award; and 3) a Grammy award for voicing Stephen the rabbit in the audiobook of "Coco and Stephen", the book by his wife Beth Stern.
Of course alleged insiders are reporting to the Beth Fan Page that Stern's contract extensions have outlived themselves and either way, he is gone after this last contract extension expires in 2028. So all his stale conditions for retirement are quickly filed away by Boss Witz inside the studio's shredder.
Beth Fan Page already said Stern Studio
was being Dismantled
The Beth Fan Page already said that Stern's overblown studio at Sirius was being dismantled in a blog entry dated June 8, 2021, and in subsequent blog entries [Ref: BFP 6-14-2021, 6-29-2021, 8-8-2021, 9-8-21, 4-25-2022, and 4-27-22, as examples]. Now Boss Witz can dismantle it even more with Stern permanently ousted from the Sirius studios. Boss Witz just hopes it takes this time, and Stern doesn't sneak back in.
Howard was downsized when he was sent home for the Covid invasion and he's been stabled at home ever since but he kept popping back up at the Sirius studios which has been a battle of Witz ever since, getting Stern to stay home.
So, Sirius began breaking up that giant studio to stop dumping more money into that overpaid Stern show budget that they keep cutting annually as he tries to add more jobs to his duty statement to hang onto the salary he has. He is not only a radio show host, but is the sound engineer, news reader, and janitor emptying out trash bins at his home studio(s) to cut down on expenses and try and have minimal impact to his own salary while his dunsel sidekick Robin Quivers is slowly disappearing with audiences barely hearing her cackle like a hen wondering when she will finally lay that egg.
So with this HBO Max cable TV deal, nothing will change for Stern's bargain basement radio broadcast. As usual, he will just attempt to pre-record any celebrity interviews when they are trolling around the Sirius studios anyway, and record segments for the Stern show for replay on a phone app and cable TV.
Stale Stern Will Now Bore Audiences
Worldwide
SiriusXM found a loophole to going worldwide when Europe wants nothing to do with Sirius satellite radio. So, with HBO Max going out of business anyway due to a buyout by Paramount+, they can air the Stern show as filler because it's just airing overnight in America or in the early morning hours overseas. I guess unless you live in Australia, the target audience will be security guards working overnight guarding sticky buns at Dunkin' Donuts.
Variety.com
The series will debut on HBO Max worldwide on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 12:01 a.m. PT/3:01 a.m. ET, with new episodes releasing subsequent Thursdays. The series is executive produced by The Howard Stern Production Co. Inc.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/howard-stern-show-streaming-hbo-max-series-1236847242/
We know SiriusXM is struggling with having zero video content because when celebs are pushing their latest projects, they want on TV, not just plugging stuff on a phone or computer app or on the radio. So Stern can be the test pilot to see if Sirius can dump more of their radio shows on cable TV.
To garner interest in their satellite radio shows, desperate SiriusXM even bought a bunch of podcasting nominations for the Golden Globe awards but won zero. So Stern's little senior scooter radio show taped for cable TV, might open pathways for them to dump more of their radio shows on some cable TV network of suckers.
Witz Winding Stern Down
to Retirement
SiriusXM controls Stern's material as already blogged about [Ref: BFP 6-23-26 and 7-16-26], so any deals that are brokered are via Sirius executives with Howard sometimes co-producing specials and producing his weekly radio show. In 2023, when HBO Max aired the Stern/Springsteen interview, it was a SiriusXM/Stern co-production.
This HBO Max deal Stern is currently crowing about was brokered and controlled by SiriusXM, but Boss Witz has to pretend Stern is in control because she knows he's got the mind of a spoiled brat transvestite who only got married to appear emotionally stable to seniors shopping on discount Wednesdays at FoodMart.
The E! Channel network hired Stern in 1994, but Howard wanted a solo talk show like what Johnny Carson had or David Letterman. Stern's prior attempt at a TV talk show bombed miserably and was tagged as unwatchable garbage.
So, onto the E! Channel that took the bait but it was such a horrible mess, with Stern not understanding the medium of television or how to communicate with any celebrity one-on-one, it was quickly canceled and executives informed Mr. Stern formally that they would only be taping his weekly radio show and airing that on the E! Channel. A current show was aired the first half hour and a rerun the second half hour.
Stern Stuck in Another Merger
This new deal with HBO Max is only a temporary arrangement because Paramount+ has acquired HBO Max. The merger/buyout/takeover still has to be officially approved by regulatory agencies which Howard Stern is used to, having already gone through the merger of Sirius and XM satellite companies where Stern earned zero extra bonus bucks.
Interesting it's being reported that Paramount Skydance paid about 81 billion dollars for the buyout of HBO Max, and then acquired their debt which makes the grand total about 111 billion dollars - yeah, HBO Max was tanking bigtime so that's why they got Stuck With Stern in its final days.
Everyone remembers that the man transitioning to a woman, Martin/Martine Rothblatt founded Sirius [originally Satellite CD Radio then later renamed Sirius] and he/she hired Stern, not the rival satellite company XM. Martine quickly cut and ran and both Sirius and XM were crashing and burning and had to merge to save both of them and it became a merged company called SiriusXM.
Howard subsequently sued Sirius for acquiring XM, essentially claiming he was due a substantial bonus for the merger and acquiring the subscribers from XM. Sirius stated they already paid Stern a bonus in the past and he was not due any additional bonuses and Sirius won the lawsuit.
So will Howard sue again with this merger when Paramount+ cancels his little Senior Scooter Radio Show when HBO Max is gone? Well, these pigeons at Paramount+ may want to prep for an upcoming lawsuit from the Stern camp if they decide his show is part of the HBO Max graveyard of shows and bury it for good and Stern has a fit.
March 7, 2026 — HBO Max will "essentially be shut down" by the end of next year.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/hbo-max-expected-shut-down-193316029.html
So, Beth Fans, it seems like the stale Sirius Senior Scooter Stern Rain Man Radio Show will only be on HBO Max for a year at best. Then Stern will be forced into retirement in December 2028 when his last contract extension expires leaving Sirius stuck with a boatload of useless old Stern show tapes they will be desperate to market to someone and get stuck with keeping Howard 100 and air his moldy rerun material on their platform, desperate for dollars from ad revenue while Stern finally scooters off into oblivion.
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