That’s according to Radaronline.com:

Stern Warning Gets Post Writer Canned

Howard Stern’s words may not carry the same weight now that he’s on satellite radio, but he’s still got enough juice to get a pesky critic fired. John Mainelli, the New York Post writer who irked Stern by reporting a rumor that he would return to terrestrial radio with his tail between his legs on Tuesday, has left the paper after receiving an ultimatum from editor in chief Col Allan.

Allan told Mainelli Wednesday that he had to choose between his freelance job covering the radio industry for the Post and his lucrative sideline consulting for radio stations and owners. “I consider myself fired,” Mainelli tells Radar. “I can’t live on what I earn from the Post.”

Mainelli claims he has made no secret of his consulting relationships and has always been careful to recuse himself from stories that might present a conflict of interest. But Allan, according to a Post spokesman, was not aware of the arrangement, and would have put a stop to it long ago had he known. Stern has been waging war on Mainelli since Tuesday, when Mainelli reported on speculation that Stern might cut a deal to get part of his broadcast back on terrestrial radio. (Since Stern left CBS in January, his show has only been available to Sirius subscribers.)

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Thanks to Backstage member XMECUTIONER for posting the story.

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Ryan over at Orbitcast.com gives us a heads up about a new article discussing the potential of Howard Online.

Mark Ramsey at hear2.0 claims that a barrier to entry for Stern fans who haven’t migrated over, the radio, has been removed.

SIRIUS finally reduced the “pain” of listening to Stern, where that pain included going to a store and getting a radio and installing a radio and positioning an antennae, etc. Now, suddenly, it’s as easy as buying a book on Amazon.

It would be nice if it were as easy as shopping at Amazon.

Ramsey fails to realize that SIRIUS does not offer an online-only subscription. You still have to march down to the store, buy a radio, install it, activate it, and then set up your online streaming account.

There is no way to get Howard Stern or SIRIUS Music via the Internet without the radio. While XM Satellite does offer an online-only sub, for SIRIUS there is still no 1-Click way to instant gratification.

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SiriusBackstage.com has learned that Stern will start broadcasting this afternoon, reportedly at around 1pm EDT. Nevertheless, we have heard from several good sources that Stern will be online by this afternoon. This will meet Sirius’ goal of being on by Father’s day, as stated in the 1st quarter conference call back in April. We apologize for not reporting this to you sooner, but this is the first date we have confirmed to the extent that we believe it could happen, and we did not want to post false rumors.

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UPDATE: 12:10ET Howard 100/101 have launched on the online stream!

UPDATE: There may be interuptions of service over the weekend as Sirius continue to tune and update Howard Online.

Today Sirius released an 8-K detailing their settlement in the CBS/Stern case. From the 8-K…

The lawsuit brought by CBS Radio Inc. against us along with Howard Stern and others referenced in Item 3 of our 2005 Annual Report on Form 10-K has been settled. As part of the settlement, CBS Radio is conveying its rights in the recordings of the Howard Stern Show that aired on CBS Radio from 1985 through 2005. We will have the right to use those recordings as part of our Howard Stern channels through December 2010. We are making a total payment of $2 million to CBS Radio. This is the only payment we will make under the settlement agreement.
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There are no details on what Stern will pay himself, but Sirius got out very very well.

CBS Says Sirius To Pay $2M As Part Of Stern Settlement.

In a statement, CBS said the payment is related to the transfer of rights to recordings of “The Howard Stern Show.”

CBS said other terms and conditions of the settlement were confidential.

More details as they develop.

All Access is reporting that Howard Stern and CBS Corp. have settled the suit against the talk show host. The announcement comes from the Court Clerk where the case was to be tried.

According to All Access “the settlement was reportedly disclosed to Judicial Hearing Officer IRA GAMMERMAN’s office by attorneys for the parties this afternoon, but details of the settlement terms were not disclosed, and attorneys for both sides will only say that the agreement has not yet been signed.”

Update: A Sirius spokesman told Forbes.com that, “The settlement agreement is not signed. We will release a statement when it is.”