Howard Stern History
The Howard Stern history began in 1954, the year when he was born in Queens, New York. His birth date is on January 12 and his parents are Ray and Ben Stern, which are both of Austro-Hungarian descent. Howard has an elder sister called Ellen, born four years earlier. While he and his sister are complete opposites, they have a good relationship, according to Stern. Howard Stern was born in a Jewish American family and moved soon after he was born to Long Island, in the Roosevelt suburban area.
Howard went to the Washington Rose Elementary School, where he was a student until he finished sixth grade. After that, he went to Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, a place that had mostly African American students at the time. According to the autobiography he wrote in 1993, Stern received a fair amount of beatings and abuse while he went to that school, mainly from the black students. His family moved to Rockville Centre in 1969 and Howard moved to South Side High School, where he graduated in 1972.
Having received an invitation to join Elmira College, Howard instead chose to go to Boston University, which had a good reputation as far as broadcast communications were concerned. At the time he also got into Transcendental Meditation, which he still practices today. According to him, this practice helped him to succeed in radio and to quit smoking. The founder of this technique, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has been interviewed by Stern twice so far.
During his sophomore year at Boston University Howard read news at the local station and spun records. In 1975, while he was a junior, he put together a comedy show together with three other students, which was called The King Schmaltz Bagel Hour. It was cancelled after nine weeks, because they managed to anger the manager of the station with one of the sketches, which was called Godzilla Goes to Harlem.
At the end of 1975, Stern gained more experience at the WNTN-AM station, from Newton, Massachusetts. In 1976 he graduated from Boston University with a degree in communications and a GPA of 3.8. These days, the university has a scholarship funded by Stern.
Once he graduated, the Howard Stern history went on, and one of his first contacts was with a station of progressive rock, called WRNW-FM, located in a small village from Westchester County, in New York. He joined the station later, in 1977.
Stern married Alison Berns, his college sweetheart, in 1978, on June 4th. They had three daughters together, called Emily Beth, Debra Jennifer and Ashley Jade.
In 1979 he joined WCCC-FM, where he worked 8-9 hours each day until 1980, when he left because he was denied an increase in salary. He then joined the WWWW-FM station in Detroit, for a salary twice as big as the one from WCCC. He later joined WWDC-FM, a radio station from Washington, where he was paired with a radio news anchor called Robin Quivers, with which he had chemistry as a radio partner. Stern moved to New York in 1982, with a $1 million contract for a duration of five years. His new station was WNBC.
His most successful patch was at WXRK-FM, where he stayed for over twenty years, until 2005, when he signed a deal with Sirius XM. He now has a radio show that is not encumbered by any regulations, a problem that got him many fines from the FCC in the past.