{"id":280939,"date":"2010-02-05T05:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91895"},"modified":"2010-02-05T05:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T10:46:43","slug":"howard-stern-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-judge-shock-jock-stern-courted-to-replace-simon-cowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280939","title":{"rendered":"Howard Stern \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Judge? Shock Jock Stern Courted To Replace Simon Cowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Producers of <em>American Idol<\/em> are courting no-holds-barred radio shock jock Howard Stern to become reality TV&#8217;s next Mr. Nasty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1120096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14605\" title=\"Howard Stern\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1120096-748x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/simoncowell1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11615\" title=\"simoncowell1\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/simoncowell1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/idol_producers_want_howard_stern_YUKlMlwQkfqa7EgK1nvRaN\"><em>Idol<\/em> informants<\/a> claim FOX bosses are eager to bring Stern on board to replace Simon Cowell as the acid-tongue pundit on the show&#8217;s judges panel. Cowell will bid farewell to Idol in May as he prepares to launch an American adaptation of his UK ratings juggernaut <em>The X Factor<\/em>. Stern, on the hand, is the highest-paid radio personality in the country and threatening to jump ship on his Sirius Radio if the satellite service provider makes good on a promise to slice his $100 million a year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Producers are believed to have approached Howard after he repeatedly mentioned on-air that his exclusive Sirius XM Radio deal ends next January and he would be willing to consider other offers.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the few shows that could compete with Stern&#8217;s $100 million-a-year Sirius contract, and &#8216;Idol&#8217; bosses think he&#8217;d be even nastier than Simon.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OM3Ai1rn7oErGRPHW8hb55xT6Yg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OM3Ai1rn7oErGRPHW8hb55xT6Yg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OM3Ai1rn7oErGRPHW8hb55xT6Yg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OM3Ai1rn7oErGRPHW8hb55xT6Yg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producers of American Idol are courting no-holds-barred radio shock jock Howard Stern to become reality TV&#8217;s next Mr. Nasty. Idol informants claim FOX bosses are eager to bring Stern on board to replace Simon Cowell as the acid-tongue pundit on the show&#8217;s judges panel. Cowell will bid farewell to Idol in May as he prepares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}