This morning on the Howard Stern Show a caller brought up the question and asked Howard, “Will you be joining America’s Got Talent?” Howard went in to discuss that while he is happy that every time once of these judge shows has a change, Howard’s name gets thrown into the ring. He also said that if he was to join America’s Got Talent there would be no more funny business and he would set things straight ie if he was on the show the guy who won last year would have had no chance of winning.

A couple of funny things though:
-Howard mentioned while there is no deal in place, he stated that he would not comment on negotiations. He never comments on negotiations because they can always go horribly wrong.

-News about Howard joining America’s Got Talent came up after Pierce Morgan announced he was leaving the show. No one was reporting about Pierce Morgan leaving, was there even an announcement? There was no talk about Pierce Morgan and America’s Got Talent until Howard’s name was leaked to the media.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Pierce Morgan himself leaked the Howard Stern name to the media in connection to America’s Got Talent. Pierce Morgan created the drama between himself vs Howard, when Pierce came to CNN he created a sense of false tension between The King of All Media and the King of UK Media. Whatever the truth may be, the America’s Got Talent TV show has gotten more media coverage this past week than it ever has had because of Howard Stern.

Beth tweeted: “howard discovered the self timer button on his camera”
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Stern’s lawsuit says Sirius made the initial stock payment awards tied to the company’s subscriber levels, but stopped paying them after 2007. The lawsuit said Stern and his agent didn’t press the matter “while Sirius was struggling or reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy.”

Last year, according to the lawsuit, an official from Stern’s agency asked a Sirius executive about the stock payments. The executive said Sirius didn’t owe anything.

According to the lawsuit, Sirius laid out no terms on how subscribers were counting. Meaning no matter how subscribers joined, wether on their own, via Howard promoting or via a merger, the total number of subscribers would be used to determine the stock awards towards Howard Stern’s production company, One Twelve, and to Don Buchwald. I have no reason to dismiss Don Buchwald’s claims, one would think these claims are based on a signed contract…balls in Sirius XM’s court.

Section 29 of the lawsuit reads:

The subscriber targets were set high enough so that i f they were reached,
Sirius would not only be able, but happy to pay the performance-based stock awards to One Twelve. No subscribers were excluded from the subscriber count, and there were no restrictions on how subscribers would be counted. Nor were there any restrictions on how subscribers could come to Sirius. They could come because of St e rn’ s efforts or they could have nothing to do with Stern. They could also come as a result of a merger or an acquisition.

You can read the entire lawsuit against Sirius XM: here.

Sounds to me like Sirius XM owes Howard Stern and company some well deserved money. Sirius wouldn’t be here and there would be no merger if it wasn’t for Sirius.

via Wall Street Journal

Howard always stood by the idea of what give things away for free when he can save bits for the show, but he has caved in and started Tweeting thanks to a little push from some of the crew and his new Android phone.

We can’t wait to see what comes next, he’s already started Tweeting and even posted a Twitpic from the Letterman studios!

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