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Stern to judge ‘Talent’?

The King of All Media may soon be judge of all talent.

Shock jock Howard Stern is in active negotiations to replace buzzer-master Piers Morgan on NBC’s top-rated variety show, “America’s Got Talent,” The Post has learned.

Stern, who is asking the show to relocate to New York, could reportedly earn $15 million per season to critique jugglers, acrobats and singing animals — something he often did for free on his daily satellite radio show.

Last night, show creator and executive producer Simon Cowell all but confirmed that Stern was going to be added to the panel of judges.

“It’s good news. If he says it will happen, and apparently he has, you have to believe him,” Cowell told The Post.

“He will be impossible to produce, but that goes with the territory,” Cowell added. “Howard brings a kind of chaos to everything, but I like chaos.”

In September, Stern compared Season 6 “Talent” champ Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. — a car washer from West Virginia who sang like Frank Sinatra — to “a homeless guy who stole a tuxedo.”

“I wouldn’t pay 10 cents to see this guy,” Stern said. “Maybe he should wash my car while he’s singing those songs . . . Maybe someone should alert him. Nobody buys that kind of music anymore.”

Producers are hoping that Stern would be the perfect contrast to returning judges Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel, who often sugar-coat their criticisms.

Stern has had his eye on a prime-time judging gig since early 2010, when “Talent” was looking to replace David Hasselhoff and “American Idol” needed to find a new Cowell.

“I was approached by a major TV network to take over a TV show and leave here and do that next year,” he revealed. “And I did turn it down.”

Morgan’s sudden departure on Wednesday created the most sought-after job opening in prime-time TV.

The former tabloid editor, 46, tendered his resignation effective immediately to concentrate on his duties at CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.”

Stern was Morgan’s first guest when the interview program debuted in January.

“I found the juggling, to my surprise, more difficult than I first thought,” Morgan admitted Wednesday.

Sources connected with the show tell The Post the resignation came as a shock, as Morgan had two years left on his contract and auditions are already under way for Season 7.

So far, NBC has not given a timetable for the announcement of a replacement judge.