The most significant archival event of 2009 was not a single interview or bit, but a procedural one: the complete decommissioning of the analog tape library at Sirius XM’s New York studios. Stern, a notorious archivist, had historically hoarded master reels from his NBC and K-Rock days. However, in 2009, chief engineer Scott Salem oversaw the migration of the show’s active content to Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology.
2009 is often cited by fans as the "beginning of the end" for the show's classic "Artie era" due to his escalating health and addiction struggles. Howard Stern Archive 2009