Having a blog is a lot of work – even if we hadn’t customized our template to the point we ended up knowing a little more about CSS and PHP than we ever cared to, there’s always a post to write, spam comments to delete, and readership to try and grow.

So when we get something right months before it happens, you’ll have to forgive us if we rub it in a bit.

Last September I speculated about the prospect of Howard Stern coming to an iPhone near you – not only due to Sirius’ troubles, but also due to the troubles of the auto industry, which the satellite radio business model was seriously (sorry about that) dependent on.

Well it took a little longer than I had thought, but this just in (from a Sirius conference call earlier today): Howard Stern is coming to an iPhone near you (this spring).

What’s strangely missing from all the press coverage, though, is whether Sirius will be available from iTunes as well from the iPhone.  That would be huge, because I don’t know about other iPhone owners, but the new NPR radio app drains my full battery in no time at all – in fact, the real world usefulness of every iPhone radio app I’ve tried so far is severely limited by the battery drain issue.

Still, it’s good when the future behaves itself and matches our predictions.

Mel, call me.