Is the self-proclaimed King of All Media ready to jump ship yet again? According to a tweet from a Sirius stock Twitter account, Howard Stern is ready to abandon satellite radio in favor of contract with iTunes,
Howard Stern on the verge of signing $600 million 3 year agreement with Apple to host an Internet/TV/iTunes broadcast.
Stern’s contract with Sirius is up in January of 2011, and the shock jock hasn’t announced where he intends to land after that time period. An exclusivity contract with iTunes seems like an odd fit–though staying off of terrestrial radio would certainly help him continue to run his mouth outside of the watchful gaze of the FCC.
But it’s hard to take too much stock in such a high priced rumor–after all, the aforementioned Twitter account doesn’t appear to have any formal conection to Sirius–and if did, it likely wouldn’t announce the department of one of the country’s best known radio personalities, right?
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