Journalist and attorney Allison Hope Weiner is a special correspondent to Deadline and files this exclusive breaking news:
Now it’s getting personal in Round Two of the legal war between Howard Stern and his satellite radio boss Mel Karmazin according to affidavits filed today by Stern and his longtime agent Don Buchwald, reviewed exclusively by me. Only last January, both Stern and Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin were basking in the glow of Stern’s new contract, with Howard praising how well he’d been treated. But it turns out that, even as Stern was inking the new 5-year pact, the two men were already clashing over Karmazin’s refusal to acknowledge that the company owed Stern additional performance-based stock awards because he exceeded the subscriber targets set in his original agreement with Sirius. Three months later, Stern and Buchwald sued the merged Sirius Xm. Now new details keep surfacing...
Now it’s getting personal in Round Two of the legal war between Howard Stern and his satellite radio boss Mel Karmazin according to affidavits filed today by Stern and his longtime agent Don Buchwald, reviewed exclusively by me. Only last January, both Stern and Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin were basking in the glow of Stern’s new contract, with Howard praising how well he’d been treated. But it turns out that, even as Stern was inking the new 5-year pact, the two men were already clashing over Karmazin’s refusal to acknowledge that the company owed Stern additional performance-based stock awards because he exceeded the subscriber targets set in his original agreement with Sirius. Three months later, Stern and Buchwald sued the merged Sirius Xm. Now new details keep surfacing...
- 6/28/2011
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Film + TV
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