Howard Allan Stern born January 12, [ 2 ] is an American broadcaster and media personality. He is best known for his radio show, The Howard Stern Show , which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from to He has broadcast on Sirius XM since Stern landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University.
In , he began a year run at WXRK in New York City; his morning show entered syndication in and aired in 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners at its peak. From to , he served as a judge on America's Got Talent. Stern has won numerous industry awards, including Billboard ' s Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year eight consecutive times, and he is the first to have the number one morning show in New York City and Los Angeles simultaneously.
Stern has described himself as the "King of All Media" since for his successes outside radio. He hosted and produced numerous late-night television shows , pay-per-view events, and home videos. The former was made into a biographical comedy film in that had Stern and his radio show staff star as themselves. Stern performs on its soundtrack, which charted the Billboard at number one and was certified platinum for one million copies sold. Stern's third book, Howard Stern Comes Again , was released in Their families are from Poland and Austria-Hungary.
Army on Long Island and in California during the war. He formed a band with two school friends, the Electric Comicbook, on vocals and keyboards. He recalled his time there as "the greatest experience. When I saw my father as a recording engineer I was enamored. Looking at how my father was so reverential to those people, I thought that maybe he could look at me with that kind of respect if I could get behind a microphone. Stern wished to be in radio at the age of five.
In the late s, Roosevelt became a predominantly black area; Stern remembered just "a handful of white kids" had remained in his school and repeated instances of bullying from black students. In , Stern declined a place at Elmira College to instead pursue a communications degree at Boston University , [ 25 ] but his average high school grades caused him to spend the first two years in its College of Basic Studies.
