After years of struggling with FCC fines and censorship, and publicly fretting on what his next carreer move would be -- shock jock superstar made a stunning announcement this morning on his radio show that he will be leaving his regular format radio show after his remaining fifteen months are up.

'I dreamed of being in radio since I was a kid,' Stern told his crew and audience this morning. 'It's the only thing I ever wanted to do. Not spinning records... but in creating something new. A new way to reach people... I didn't come to radio to say the 's' word or use profanity. I came in to reach the people.'

He then spoke of the troubles he's experienced with censors and the FCC, and how it has sapped his creative energy.

'I don't really want to go on with radio,' Stern confessed to his audience. 'I'm done. It's not fun for me anymore.'

Then the King of All Media further stunned everyone by announcing that he will pack his bags and move his celebrated and controversial show to satellite radio.

'Radio and me are one,' Stern mused. 'We're married since I was five, when I did shows in my bedroom... So, at the height of my career I am leaving regular radio for satellite and building a new future.'

The shock jock said that his new future has invigorated his sense of creativity, and he now looks forward to coming to work in the morning.

Stern has been telling his audience for years now that he was growing tired of being pushed around by censors, or fined by the FCC over his ballsy brand of humor. His troubles only worsened after the Janet Jackson Super Bowl scandal, and the eventual crackdown on indecency on entertainment.

'Radio has become obliterated,' Stern said. 'People are hitting buttons on me. I'm censoring myself... they have people all over the country hitting buttons on me... Cleveland, Miami, everywhere...'

Starting in 2006, Howard Stern's radio show will move to Sirrius Satellite Radio, where the King of Radio will be the headliner of his own radio network. As part of the contract, Stern will also be allowed to produce two separate satellite stations for Sirrius.

Stern says he plans on producing radio programming for friends of the show, as well as entertainers who he's said that he 'may not have gotten along with in the past' but still recognized their talents, nonetheless.

Stern also put the invitation out to his radio show cast and to his dedicated audience to join him in 'changing the face of radio.'

Stern said that he will honor the remaining 15 months left on his contract, and will continue providing his audience with top notch entertainment all the way up to the moment of his departure to satellite.