After months of negotiations, Howard Stern said he’s staying with SiriusXM, where his show has aired since 2006, for another three years.

Stern announced that he reached a deal renewal with the satellite-radio broadcaster on “The Howard Stern Show” Tuesday, his last show of 2025. “I’m happy to announce that I figured out a way to have it all — more free time, and continuing to be on the radio,” Stern, 71, told listeners. “So yes, we are coming back for three more years.” Stern will be back live on the air on Monday, Jan. 5.

A SiriusXM rep confirmed the company’s three-year deal extension with Stern. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

This summer, after media reports said Stern was “fired” by SiriusXM and that he would exit the gig after his current contract expired at the end of of 2025, the radio host was scheduled to address the topic on his Sept. 8 show. But at that point, he hadn’t finalized a deal yet, and instead he punked fans with a gag that Andy Cohen had taken over his channel slot on SiriusXM because Stern had been abruptly been dismissed.

At an investment conference on Sept. 3, SiriusXM execs expressed optimism they would be able to come to terms on a renewal with Stern, one of the company’s top-tier talk talents. “I think he’s been core to our platform for over 20 years, so I’m confident we’ll get to the right place,” SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz said at the time.

On his show Tuesday morning, Stern thanked “the good folks here at SiriusXM, who I told you, I really do adore.” According to Stern, “I was able to create [co-host] Robin [Quivers] a more flexible schedule and so we’ll be back. I know you and I have talked about it privately, Robin, even though you’re pretending you didn’t know [about] the announcement. But I did check with my Robin to see that she was up for it as well, because if Robin wasn’t up for it, then I wasn’t going to do it.”

Stern also said: “I was really torn up. … I still do love being on the radio. I think the show is better than ever, I really do believe that in my heart.”

Stern first signed with Sirius in 2004 (prior to its merger with XM), in part to be free of oversight by the FCC, which had levied millions of dollars in fines on terrestrial radio stations that carried his show for alleged indecency. “The Howard Stern Show” debuted on the satellite radio broadcaster in January 2006. His most recent five-year renewal with SiriusXM was inked in 2020.