Howard Stern’s Howard 101 archive channel is reportedly being dropped from SiriusXM on September 1 and replaced by Andy Cohen, stripping the 72-year-old broadcaster of one of the two channels that carried his name. Howard 100 will remain on the platform, but the change ends the old-content outlet that had been built around Stern’s back catalog.
The timing matters because Stern is already operating from a smaller footprint. Howard 100, which carries new content, was recently cut back to just one live show a week, making Howard 101’s removal feel less like a reshuffle than another step toward a thinner presence on SiriusXM. For listeners who had treated the archive station as a place to revisit the long run of The Howard Stern Show, September 1 now marks the day that library disappears from the dial.
The change lands only months after Stern laid off roughly 50 employees in two rounds earlier this year, and several of those workers were tied to Howard 101. That history gives the channel’s exit a sharper edge than a routine programming decision. It is not just an old feed being swapped out; it is the latest sign that the SiriusXM version of Stern’s world has been shrinking from the inside out.
There is also an awkward contradiction at the center of it. Stern has signed a new contract for Howard 100, yet the broader expectation is that The Howard Stern Show will end when that deal expires in 2028. In August, a source said he had begrudgingly accepted that it was time to scale things back and that he wanted to go out on his terms, but the latest move suggests he is still watching other people decide how fast that exit comes into view.
That is the real takeaway from the latest change: Howard Stern is not being pushed off SiriusXM all at once, but the structure around him is being pared down piece by piece. Howard 100 survives for now. Howard 101 does not. And the clock on what remains is already running toward 2028.
