Howard Stearns

Quick Facts

Full Name	Howard Stearns
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1954(1954-01-12)
Age	70
Birthplace	Queens
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Howard Stearns Biography

Howard Stearns is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on January 12, 1954 in Queens, New York, United States. Howard Allan Stern was the second child of Ben Stern and Ray Stern (nee Schiffman), in New York City’s Jackson Heights neighborhood. Stern’s parents, who are Jewish, are from Poland. Their families are also from Austria-Hungary. Ray worked as an office clerk in New York City prior to becoming a homemaker. She later became an inhalation therapist and then became an office clerk. Ben was a soldier in the U.S. Army, Long Island, and California during World War II. Later, he worked as a radio engineer for WHOM in Manhattan as well as co-owner and operator of Aura Recording Inc.. This Manhattan recording studio was where commercials and cartoons were made. Stern described Ellen, his older sister, as “completely opposite” to him and “very quiet”.

Stern was encouraged to learn Transcendental Meditation by his parents in the 1970s. Stern attributes the ability to quit smoking, overcome obsessive compulsive disorder and heal his mother from depression to Transcendental Meditation. He continued to use it until 1997. Stern interviewed Maharishi Mahesh Yagi, who was the original creator of the technique. He thanked him for helping his mother get over her depression.

In his search for radio work following his graduation, Stern declined an offer to work evenings at WRNW, a progressive rock station in Briarcliff Manor, New York. He stopped and was unsure of his talent and questioned his future as a professional in the industry, writing “I freaked out. I got real nervous that I wasn’t good enough”. Stern accepted a marketing role at Benton & Bowles, a New York advertising agency, which he soon “quit without giving notice” in favor of a position in the creative department. He lasted three hours before he was fired “because their personnel department realized that I was the guy who just quit.” Stern then worked in Queens as a radio salesman selling advertising time without considerable success. He wrote, “All of a sudden … I realized I had turned down a job in radio”. With encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Stern contacted WRNW for work and agreed to take cover shifts surrounding the Christmas holidays in 1976. Impressed with his reliability and professional approach, the station’s director hired Stern full-time for a four-hour midday shift for six days a week, for $96 a week. After several months, Stern became the station’s production director which lasted until November 1977 when he became its program director for an increased salary of $250 a week. To save money, Stern rented a room in a monastery in Armonk, New York.

Stern landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University. From 1976 to 1982, Stern developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York, WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, WWWW in Detroit, Michigan, and WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985. In 1985, he began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City; his morning show entered syndication in 1986 and aired in 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners at its peak. Stern won numerous industry awards, including Billboard’s Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year eight consecutive times, and is the first to have the number one morning show in New York City and Los Angeles simultaneously. He became the most fined radio host when the Federal Communications Commission issued fines totaling $2.5 million to station owners for content it deemed indecent. Stern became one of the highest paid radio figures after signing a five-year deal with Sirius in 2004 worth $500 million. In recent years, Stern’s photography has been featured in Hamptons and WHIRL magazines. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a judge on America’s Got Talent.

Stern wanted to be a radio personality at five years old. In his youth, Stern was a very infrequent listener. However, he names Brad Crandall and Bob Grant as early influences. Stern recorded his radio shows using different characters, pre-recorded sketches, prank calls and commercials. His father had a tape machine, microphone and turntable set up in his basement. Stern made many visits to his father’s recording room and saw “some of the greatest voice guys” working with him. This was the beginning of his desire to be on air and “do something”, instead than just play records. Roosevelt was a predominantly black neighborhood in the 1960s. Stern recalls that only a few white children remained at Roosevelt’s school, and there were numerous instances of bullying by black students. Stern was fifteen when he transferred to South Side High School. He became an introvert and moved his family to Rockville Centre in June 1969. Stern graduated from the school in 1972. His yearbook lists Stern as his sole student activity, Key Club membership.

Howard Stearns Net Worth

Howard Stearns is one of the richest Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Howard Stearns 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Howard Allan Stern, born January 12, 1954, is an American radio personality and television author. His radio program, The Howard Stern Show (syndicated nationally on terrestrial radio between 1986 and 2005), is his most well- known. Since 2006, Stern has been broadcasting on Sirius XM Satellite Radio.

The family moved to Roosevelt in New York in 1955. Stern attended Roosevelt Junior-Senior School and Washington-Rose Elementary school. Stern attended Hebrew school, where he was also given the name Tzvi. Stern was a youngster and took five years of piano lessons. He also became interested in marionettes. Stern used them to entertain his friends by performing explicit shows. Stern formed the Electric Comicbook with two of his school friends. He also played keyboards and sang. Stern spent the summers at Camp WelMet in Narrowsburg from age nine until his second year of university. There he served as a counselor, camper, and kitchen cook. Stern recalled that it was “the best experience” he had.

In 1972, Stern declined a place at Elmira College to instead pursue a Communications degree at Boston University, but his average high school grades caused him to spend the first two years in its College of Basic Studies. In his second year, he started work at the campus radio station WTBU, where he played records, read the news, and hosted interview programs. He later co- hosted a weekly comedy show with three fellow students named The King Schmaltz Bagel Hour which was initially canceled during its first broadcast for a racial sketch named “Godzilla Goes to Harlem”. Stern took cannabis, Quaaludes, and LSD during his studies, but quit after he experienced a difficult trip on too much LSD. In 1974, he gained admission to the university’s School of Public Communications. He then studied for a diploma at the Radio Engineering Institute of Electronics in Fredericksburg, Virginia in July 1975 which earned him a first-class radio-telephone operator license, a required certificate for all radio broadcasters at the time which was issued by the Federal Communications Commission. With the license, Stern landed his first professional radio job at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts from August to December 1975 doing air shifts, news casting, and production work. For the next five months, he taught students basic electronics in preparation for their own FCC exams. In May 1976, Stern graduated magna cum laude with a 3.8-grade point average. His major was broadcasting and film and his minor English and speech. In the past, he funded a scholarship at the university.

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In April 1982, four months before he started at WNBC, NBC Magazine aired a critical news report on shock radio by Douglas Kiker that centered around Stern and the controversial nature of his show. The piece caused NBC executives to discuss the potential withdrawal of Stern’s contract, but, rather than spend money on buying Stern out of the deal, management agreed to control Stern. To make matters worse, the station did not allow Stern to bring his show partners at first, which caused some friction between Stern and Quivers for several months. Stern began his afternoon show at WNBC on August 30, 1982, and was closely monitored, instructed to avoid discussions of a sexual or religious nature. In his first month, he was suspended for “Virgin Mary Kong”, a sketch about a video game where a group of men pursued the Virgin Mary around a singles bar in Jerusalem. The station then hired an attorney to operate a seven-second delay if Stern said something potentially offensive. This soon became the task of program director Kevin Metheny, who Stern infamously feuded with and nicknamed “Pig Virus”. While at WNBC Stern also began his longtime feud with its morning host Don Imus.

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In 1984, Stern acquired Don Buchwald as his agent who supervised Stern’s new three-year contract with WNBC in early 1985. His popularity with the audience grew despite management’s continual restrictions; on May 21, 1984, he made his debut appearance on Late Night with David Letterman and was featured in People magazine, increasing his national exposure. In May 1985, Stern claimed the highest ratings at WNBC in four years with a 5.7% market share of the afternoon audience. In a sudden turn of events, Stern and Quivers were fired shortly before they were to go on air on September 30, 1985, for what WNBC management termed “conceptual differences” regarding the show. Program director John Hayes explained: “Over the course of time we made a very conscious effort to make Stern aware that certain elements of the program should be changed … I don’t think it’s appropriate to say what those specifics were”. Stern was not told whose decision it was; in 1992, he believed Thornton Bradshaw, chairman of WNBC owner RCA, heard his “Bestiality Dial-a-Date” segment that aired ten days before his suspension, and ordered the show’s cancellation.