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Howard Stern Rumored To Move To iTunes

Shock jock Howard Stern's contract with Sirius/XM ends this year -- and rumors are starting to surface about him heading elsewhere. Oe claims Stern is close to signing a three-year, $600 million deal with Apple to host a show on iTunes. None of the stories so far have featured official comment from either Apple or Stern.

The real question would be whether Stern could get a big enough audience when sold by the download to justify that kind of money. He got $500 million from Sirius because they desperately needed to land a big name at the time. Jobs is reportedly still having trouble getting major content owners to bring their product to Apple TV or to the iPad.

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