Five suitors came calling, including satellite radio company SiriusXM, but in the end public radio’s “This American Life” decided to go it alone. The popular weekly program is notifying stations on Wednesday that it will distribute the show itself beginning in July when its distribution contract with Public Radio International ends.

The news in March that “This American Life” and PRI were ending their relationship, which began in 1997, set off a scramble among public media rivals who wanted to add the show to their bundles of offerings.

In a letter sent to stations Wednesday, Ira Glass, the host and executive producer, disclosed that SiriusXM “asked how much money it would take to get us to quit public radio completely, to abandon terrestrial radio the way Howard Stern did, and play exclusively on Sirius-XM. So flattering! But of course, no chance of that happening.”

In a telephone interview, Mr. Glass declined to identify the other suitors, except for NPR, whose executives he said came impressively armed with a list of cities where they believed the show could be broadcast at a better time. (He’s keeping the list, he said, adding “Thank you, NPR!”)