In 2004, "The Mikey Show" replaced Howard Stern on the KIOZ lineup. This change resulted from Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), which purchased Jacor, canceling Stern's morning show from the six Clear Channel-owned stations that carried it, owing to the "Nipplegate incident at Super Bowl XXXVIII. (Stern would move to KPLN that summer, then ultimately off terrestrial radio altogether — and thus outside FCC indecency regulation — when he moved to Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006.) "The Mikey Show" itself left KIOZ in 2010 when Esparza moved to KBZT.