In October of 1999, Stern announced that Alison was divorcing him, due to the fact that he is a workaholic. A hallmark of Stern's humor was that he often expressed how tempted he was by the strippers, porn stars, and lesbians who appeared on his show, but always insisted that he had to be faithful to his wife. On June 4, 1978, Stern married his college sweetheart, Alison Berns, at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts they have three daughters: Emily Beth (b. His Hebrew name is Tzvi his paternal grandparents, Froim and Anna (Gallar) Stern, and maternal grandparents, Sol and Esther (Reich) Schiffman, were Jews from Austria-Hungary who emigrated to America at about the same time.
His Arbitron numbers remain strongest in the country's #1 radio market, New York, where his morning ratings more than triple his station's average numbers the rest of the day.Īlthough both his parents are Jewish, Stern has long claimed on his show to be "a half- Jew". The program made great sport of feuding with other cities' top-rated DJs, but soon enough, Stern's broadcast was #1 in such important markets as Philadelphia and Los Angeles, among several others. Stern's show was syndicated nationwide starting in 1986 by Infinity Broadcasting. He quickly returned to the FM band by joining local rival station WXRK, premiering on Novemand returning permanently to morning drive in February 1986. Stern and his crew were fired from NBC in 1985, ostensibly in response to a particularly outrageous sketch - " Bestiality Dial-A-Date" - although relations between station management and Stern were strained from the beginning. Stern would appear on Letterman's show many times thereafter. Stern's guest appearance on Late Night with David Letterman on June 19, 1984, launched Stern into the national spotlight and gave his radio show unprecedented exposure. Also working at NBC was David Letterman, who became a fan of Stern's radio show. In Detroit, Howard migrated to FM radio station in Detroit ( (putting in a year at DC101 and making it the #1 station in town in the process), and returned to New York in 1982 to work at NBC's flagship AM radio station WNBC-AM. (Years later in 1995, WCCC Radio Program Director Greg Hughes, Sy's son, brought Howard's show back to southern New England via syndication on WCCC Radio). After Dresner held-off on giving Stern a $25 raise, Stern decided to head-off to a Detroit rock station for more money. He earned news headlines after calling Japanese officials on the air in a attempt to get ex-Beatle Paul McCartney out of jail and had Connecticut motorists protesting gas prices with a headlight campaign. It seemed evident that Stern was on his way to stardom as he gathered public attention for a number of on-air antics while in Hartford, CT. Also, it was at the Hartford radio station where Howard also met his future show writer and producer, Fred Norris, who was working as an overnight DJ. Dresner, in fact, pushed Stern to "use" the telephone as a tool to create on-air material. The radio stations with a progressive rock format lend itself nicely to developing Howard's "free-form" personality. In 1978, Stern landed his first morning show job in Hartford, CT at WCCC-FM and WCCC-AM where he was hired by station owner Sy Dresner. He discovered a talent for Lenny Bruce-type comedy, and developed a wide-ranging confrontational style. Stern handing out Sirius radios during a promotion in 2005.Īfter graduation, he worked as a disc jockey for an obscure station in Westchester County, New York playing disco music. In the early 1990s, Stern had a weekly skit-driven show on WWOR-TV for three years. On AugHoward announced to his audience that his Sirius show will be available on television through the ON DEMAND service that Comcast offers. His national television shows include The Howard Stern Show ( 1994- 2005 on E!) and The Howard Stern Radio Show ( 1998- 2001 on CBS). He is both the highest-paid radio personality in the United States and the most fined personality in radio broadcast history-facts, as his fans know, he takes pride in.
Some of his commentaries are perceived by many to include bigoted, misanthropic and misogynistic remarks about various religious and ethnic groups, women, and men. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual, and racial humor. Howard Allan Stern (born Januin Roosevelt, Long Island, New York) is an American radio personality. Self-proclaimed "King of all media" Howard Stern, circa 2000.
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