The King of all Media has been dethroned — when it comes to pay-per-view television.
Howard TV, the premium pay channel that airs videos of Stern’s SiriusXM radio show and other Stern-related content, will end, the radio host and “America’s Got Talent” judge announced on his radio show on Monday.
“After almost eight years of programming the Howard TV On Demand service, iN Demand’s contract with Howard Stern Productions is expiring shortly,” iN Demand said in a statement. “We and Howard’s management team have decided jointly to sunset the service in its current iteration on Dec. 16, 2013.”
Though Stern said Howard TV would be expanding with new services to be announced at a later date, a producer at the channel told TheWrap that staff were informed in the beginning of September that the channel would almost certainly be shut down by the end of the year.