TMZ is reporting that DirecTV Sports will launch a new daily nationally syndicated radio show co-hosted by former Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange and comedian Nick DiPaolo.  Reports say that Lange and DiPaolo have inked a three-year, multi-million dollar deal to host the talk show that will also be taped for later broadcast on DirecTV. The “Nick and Artie Show” is set to debut in a  number of major markets, with additional affiliates set to come …

Howard Stern returned on Friday to the station that helped launch him as a star in national syndicated radio. In a rare 30 minute on air interview with  WYSP-FM 94.1 Philadelphia’s Spike Eskin, Stern was the last guest on WYSP before CBS Radio flipped the format to Sports Talk, simulcasting it with sister WIP-AM and ending it’s 30 year run as a music station. During the interview Stern praised the station that was the first …

Premiere syndicated radio talker Rush Limbaugh is #23 on the new Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world’s most powerful celebrities with an estimated recent yearly pay of $64 million. #24 is KIIS-FM, Los Angeles and Premiere Radio syndicated Ryan Seacrest, $61 million.  Sirius XM star Howard Stern is #26 on the list with $76 million. And #30 is Premiere talker Glenn Beck, with an estimated $40 million in pay.

Dave Graveline may have shunned his satellite radio platform for terrestrial radio but a much, much bigger star is staying put.  Howard Stern the self proclaimed “King of All Media,” made the announcement this morning that he has signed a new Sirius XM contract and will stay on satellite radio for five more years. Earlier in the week, he ranted that he wouldn’t take any kind of pay cut to stay on the job. …

National Public Radio veteran Carl Kasell and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s weekly “Music and the Spoken Word,” billed as the longest-running radio broadcast in America, will be among this year’s national radio inductees in the National Radio Hall of Fame. Meanwhile voters have snubbed two of America’s pioneering shock jocks Howard Stern and Steve Dahl for the fourth and third times respectively.  Other 2010 winners announced Wednesday include Chicago rock radio icon …

The National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) announced the 2010 nominees in four public voting categories on Tuesday.  In the Active National category, Howard Stern leads the way with Citadel Media’s “Money Talk” syndicated radio host Bob Brinker, 50-year plus broadcasting veteran and NPR news anchor Carl Kasell and syndicated radio personality Bob Kingsley, host of “Country Top 40.” The National-Pioneer category includes Barry Farber, the program “Music and the Spoken Word, the voice …

Howard Stern in an interview Thurday (1/21) with “Howard 100″ Sirius XM partner Bubba The Love Sponge,  said that several terrestrial radio stations have invited him to return to syndicated radio. Stern is in the final year of a five-year, $500 million contract that Sirius used to lure him from broadcast radio syndication. Most feel that Sirius,  just emerging from years of weak financial performance, would not be willing to pay him that much again. Stern …

Radio Online was the first to report Bay area media commentator Rich Lieberman’s blog post on Howard Stern‘s likely return to broadcast radio. Howard’s expiring Sirius deal has ramped up the rumor mill with speculation about what’s next for the “King of All Media.” Lieberman’s forecasts are based on sound logic (he predicts that major radio syndicators will be a part of any comeback) and I agree with him, it’s not if but when and …

Forbes Magazines latest Celebrity 100 list calls Premiere Network’s syndicated radio maven Rush Limbaugh “the country’s most listened-to (and perhaps most polarizing) radio host.” Limbaugh earns $54 million, and was listed as #23 in the Forbes list. XM/Sirius talker Howard Stern, who ranked #34, earned $70 million. Ryan Seacrest was ranked #44, earning $38 million. Also making the Forbes list was Glenn Beck at #81, earning $23 million. Oprah Winfrey who also claims a XM/Sirius …