Page Six says Howard 101 is set to drop from SiriusXM on September 1. Howard Stern is 72, and the move strips away the archive channel that carried older content while leaving his live channel in a reduced form.
Howard 101 will be replaced by Andy Cohen, according to the report. Howard 100 stays on SiriusXM with new content, but it has been cut back to one live show a week, so the shift is less a clean exit than a narrowing of Stern's footprint on the service.
Howard 101 and Howard 100
Howard 101 has long been the home for older Howard Stern material, while Howard 100 carries new programming. That split now matters more because the older-content lane is the one being removed, and the live side has already been reduced to one live show a week.
Earlier this year, Stern laid off roughly 50 employees through two rounds of layoffs. Several of those employees worked for Howard 101, which ties the channel change to a wider contraction inside the operation rather than a single programming tweak.
Stern's 2028 contract
On August 14, a source said Stern had “begrudgingly accepted” that it was time to scale things back, but was upset by rumors that the Howard 101 channel might end up flat out cancelled. The same source said he “wanted to go out on his terms,” and added that “Having to play this waiting game where he feels like the bosses are holding his future in their hands and capriciously deciding his fate is a nightmare,” which captures why this looks bigger than one channel swap.
Stern signed a new contract for his live broadcast channel, yet the reported plan is for The Howard Stern Show to end when that deal expires in 2028. Howard 101 disappears first on September 1, and the remaining live channel becomes the last piece of his SiriusXM presence to watch.
