Howard Stern has laid off around a dozen staffers from his SiriusXM show as he prepares to drop to just one new show per week after Labor Day. According to sources, staffers received the news over Zoom and were told that Stern plans to cut back after returning from his summer break. Stern kept a core team of veteran producers, but the rest of the air time is expected to be filled with tape from his vast archive. Stern signed a new three-year contract in December that he said would give him more "flexibility" and "more free time." The staffers were sent home immediately after the call and will receive severance packages based on their tenure. Stern first went on the air in 1977 and joined Sirius in 2006 in a landmark deal.
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