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- National Post
The Howard Stern Show, a radio fixture since the 1980s, is said to be ending soon
The Howard Stern Show, which has been on the air now for more than 40 years, first on terrestrial radio and since 2005 on SiriusXM satellite radio, is said to be on the verge of ending. Article content Reports in Britain's tabloid The Sun and elsewhere say that the host's latest five-year contract expires in the fall, but that it won't be renewed. Article content 'Stern's contract is up in the fall and while Sirius is planning to make him an offer, they don't intend for him to take it,' an unnamed insider told the paper. 'Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want. It's no longer worth the investment.' Article content Article content The insider added that Sirius may strike a deal for Stern's library of content. 'But as far as him coming back to doing the show, there's no way they can keep paying his salary.' Article content Article content 'If Sirius isn't going to give Stern a good offer, I don't think it would have anything to do with his ratings,' the source said. 'It's more likely everything to do with the political climate.' Article content The source added: 'After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it's like they just can't afford to keep him going.' Article content The comparison is an apt one. Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, was told last month that the show would end in May 2026. It was a move that many — not least Donald Trump himself — suggested was influenced by Colbert's criticism of the now U.S. president over the years. Article content Similarly, Stern has in recent years become openly critical of Trump. In 2020 he called on Trump to resign from his first term as president for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. mocked him, he sarcastically referred to the the younger Trump as a 'wit' and a 'genius.' Article content Article content And in 2023, Trump posted on social media that 'The real Howard Stern is a weak, pathetic, and disloyal guy, who lost his friends and MUCH of his audience.' He added: 'I did his show many times in the good old days, and then he went Woke, and nobody cares about him any longer.' Article content Article content Stern's radio persona has evolved over the decades. Originally known as a 'shock jock' broadcaster — his move to SiriusXM was in part a way to get away from the censorship regulations of terrestrial radio — he gradually became a more serious and politically savvy interviewer. Article content Guests on his show have included U.S. President Joe Biden, who gave his first on-air interview while in office to Stern in April 2024, and U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, who spoke to him last October, just weeks before the nation went to the polls. Article content Stern, 71, got his start on radio in the late 1970s, with The Howard Stern Show beginning in 1981 on WWDC, a radio station near Washington, D.C. It moved to WNBC in New York the following year, and in 1985 landed at WXRK, where it stayed until its move to SiriusXM in 2005.
CTV News
27 minutes ago
- CTV News
Man saved by ‘very lucky' penny after someone shoots into SUV
Jason Walker said he was on his way to church when someone shot into his SUV. (WAPT via CNN Newsource) JACKSON, Mississippi (WAPT) - One man said he was on his way to church when someone shot into his SUV. Jason Walker said he lives in Clinton but serves at Truitt Baptist Church on Old Brandon Road in Pearl. Back in early June, Walker said he was driving on Interstate 220 at Highway 80 in Jackson when someone pulled up and started shooting at him. 'A gentleman pulled up to my right, rolled his window down, nodded at me and fired seven shots into my right passenger door. Six went into the door. Two exited through the door into my dashboard. One went in front of my face, about 6 inches, and through the driver's side window. Another went into my work bag right next to me and lodged into a very lucky penny,' Walker said. Walker said if it were not for the penny, the bullet probably would have hit him in the hip. 'He was just a very angry man. He circled me a few times there on 220. I got off on Clinton Boulevard, and he wanted to get around me, so I pulled over to let him by, and he drove past, and he slammed on his brakes and came next to me again, and then he took off, and you know, I'm going towards Pearl, so I get onto the eastbound direction of 20, and I moved over, and I don't know if he took that as a sign of aggression, but he did it again, he sped up, and he slammed on his brakes in front of me a second time,' Walker said. Walker said the driver was yelling and making a lot of hand gestures at him as they were driving. 'I gave him a dirty look, but that was about it,' Walker said. He said he was on his way to the church, and his mind was not on anger but instead on worship. Walker shared his incredible testimony with his fellow church members. Walker said he called 911 after the shooting. He filed a police report and said investigators still have his vehicle. It was just this past Sunday that a woman said someone shot through her SUV while she was stopped at a light on Country Club Drive and Northside Drive. By Richard Bourne.
Globe and Mail
27 minutes ago
- Globe and Mail
The Democrats won't be in the dumps for long
It's not news that Canada needs. Our party in the United States, the Democratic Party, which we've always favoured over the less progressive Republicans, appears to be in dire straits. Typical of its troubles is a Wall Street Journal poll saying the party has reached a 35-year-low in public esteem, with 63 per cent of voters holding a negative view. The Democrats are despondent and divided from their election defeat. Their credibility has taken a hit on account of their apparent cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline. They are being steamrollered in Congress by the Republicans. They lack a coherent message, a strong leader. It is all happening when, more than ever, a strong Democratic Party is needed to restrain the authoritarian impulses of Donald Trump, who is going so far as to have Barack Obama investigated. But the party's condition isn't as dire as it is being made out to be. Much of what we're seeing is not unusual for a party in the months after losing a presidential election. Since first being based in Washington in 1978, I've seen the same pattern repeatedly. Initially it's all doom and gloom for the defeated party. Then the midterm elections come and that party invariably makes big gains and all the griping and crying and bad media stops. Andrew Coyne: The final obstacle to Trump's dictatorship may be the people he needs to borrow from Trump says Vance 'most likely' to lead as Republican nominee in 2028 It's only natural that in the wake of the Trump defeat, there is dissent and finger pointing and division among the Democrats. It's standard fare to be trailing well behind the honeymooning victors in the polls. It's hardly surprising to appear rudderless given that in the American system, there is no opposition party leader as such. And it's to be expected that with the Republicans in control of the House, the Senate and the White House, they are having their way. But despite their follies, the Democrats currently lead the Republicans in generic polls for Congressional control. The Trump victory has not translated in a boost in support for Republicans. In three polls released Wednesday, he was an average of negative-seven in favourability ratings. Only 38 per cent of Americans say the country is on the right track. What is being overlooked by those attacking the Democrats is their talent pool. The party is stacked with talent. There's California Governor Gavin Newsom, there's former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Representative Ro Khanna, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. That doesn't include firebrand representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who political analyst Nate Silver and others are already touting as the favourite to win the party's 2028 nomination. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's prominence, however, is one of the reasons the party is said to be doing so poorly. She's dragging the party to the far left. She is therefore deemed to be a gift to Republicans. That could well be the case. It could also be old-think, another example of an out-of-touch establishment mentality, discounting how American politics has changed and is changing. Polls by Gallup and AtlasIntel show AOC scoring a higher positive impression than Mr. Trump. An Emerson College poll shows her neck-and-neck with Vice-President J.D. Vance. AOC has passion and star power. She is inheriting Bernie Sanders's base of support. As a Latina, that base potentially extends to Hispanic America. At the age of just 35, her base extends to the youth of the country. She represents generational change in spades. Clobbering all comers in fundraising, she brought in almost US$10-million in the first quarter of this year. The party needs a fighter who connects with working people; AOC is that too. An anti-establishment rising star like her is hardly an example of a party in decline. On the Republican side, Mr. Trump has been scoring foreign policy wins, but they aren't vote-getters. The party just received rotten economic numbers, leading Mr. Trump to idiotically blame it on his statistics chief and, in banana-republic style, fire her. Most every economist is of the view that the Trump trade war will spark high inflation, handing the Democrats the affordability issue. His recently passed 'big beautiful bill' is getting a big ugly reception for cutting into social security and catering to the rich. The Epstein controversy is fracturing unity in the party's base. This is all going to help Democratic Party disarray go away. In keeping with precedent, we can expect the party to vigorously reassert itself by the midterms, just like it did in the midterms in 2018. We recall how down in the dumps the Democrats were after losing to Mr. Trump two years earlier. It didn't last.
