In 2004, The Howard Stern Show signed the first of several five-year contracts with Sirius; the first was reportedly worth $500 million.
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46 Facts About The Howard Stern Show
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The Howard Stern Show landed his first professional radio job while at Boston University, performing on-air skits, news casting and production duties at 1550 WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts, from August to December 1975.
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The Howard Stern Show hosted a show with three fellow students on WTBU, campus radio station, named The King Schmaltz Bagel Hour which was cancelled during its first broadcast for a sketch called "Godzilla Goes to Harlem".
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The Howard Stern Show produced a more outrageous audition tape, playing Robert Klein and Cheech and Chong records mixed with flatulence routines and one-liners.
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The Howard Stern Show was hired for the job, his first in a large radio market.
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The Howard Stern Show would ask more unusual type questions to his guests, such as their dating habits.
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The Howard Stern Show held a two-day boycott of Shell Oil Company during the summer of the 1979 energy crisis, which put The Howard Stern Show and the station into the national news.
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The Howard Stern Show made a brief, half-hearted attempt to be a country radio DJ but realized it wasn't to his liking.
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The Howard Stern Show left the station soon after and declined offers to work at CHUM in Toronto, WXRT in Chicago and WPLJ in New York City.
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On March 2,1981, The Howard Stern Show began his third morning job, this time at WWDC-FM, a rock station in Washington, DC He was determined to become a success, and noticed the importance of news segments for satire.
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The Howard Stern Show requested for a news person to riff with him in the studio and not just deliver news briefs, returning to the newsroom when they were finished.
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The Howard Stern Show formed the Think Tank, a cohesive trio of male listeners who conversed with Stern and played along with quizzes and routines, which helped the show sound more natural.
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The Howard Stern Show had more than tripled the station's ratings during his stay.
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The Howard Stern Show continued to break out of the station's strict format.
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The Howard Stern Show had a naked woman on the show for the first time and attempted to make another reach orgasm through her radio speaker, both of which were reenacted in his film Private Parts.
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The Howard Stern Show began a rivalry with the number one host John DeBella of WMMR, and was determined to beat him in the ratings.
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The Howard Stern Show achieved his goal in April 1990, and held a celebratory "funeral" for DeBella on May 10 in Rittenhouse Square which aired live.
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Between September 1986 and February 1987, The Howard Stern Show hosted a three-hour Saturday morning program with a live audience which was syndicated to 45 markets across the country by DIR Broadcasting.
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That year, The Howard Stern Show returned to the Washington, DC, market after a six-year absence when he was syndicated on WJFK, his third affiliate.
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The Howard Stern Show rivaled with the KLOS morning team of Mark and Brian, who for three years had the area's top-rated program.
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In January 1992, The Howard Stern Show reached the number one spot in New York by overtaking the news station WINS, who had enjoyed a ten-year reign.
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The Howard Stern Show was reaching over one million listeners a week there, and hosted a live victory parade in Times Square to celebrate.
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In October 1992, Stern became the first person to have the number one show in New York and Los Angeles simultaneously, as he acquired a 9.
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In January 1993, The Howard Stern Show overtook Philadelphia news station KYW-AM in the morning ratings which ended the station's 14-year run at number one.
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Howard Stern ran for 11 years until the last original episode aired on July 8,2005.
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On December 7,1994, The Howard Stern Show made national news by preventing a man from committing suicide who was to jump off the George Washington Bridge.
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The Howard Stern Show responded to the reaction with a statement in Spanish, arguing that his comments were not intended to cause pain to her family, friends and loved ones.
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Day after the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20,1999, The Howard Stern Show's comments regarding the incident drew criticism from some listeners.
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The Howard Stern Show argued his comments were taken out of context, and accused critics of being overly sensitive.
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In December 2000, Stern renewed his contract with Infinity Broadcasting to continue the radio show for five years.
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In March 2001, The Howard Stern Show announced the departure of Martling, who was unable to reach an agreement over a new contract with WXRK.
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The Howard Stern Show aired live during the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001, and continued to broadcast with most of his staff until around 12:15 pm.
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On October 6,2004, The Howard Stern Show announced his five-year contract with Sirius Satellite Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, free from the FCC's regulations.
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Promotion of Sirius met with controversy as The Howard Stern Show mentioned the service on air, instructing listeners in purchasing receivers and subscriptions.
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When off the air, The Howard Stern Show traveled to the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square on an open-top bus and met Martha Stewart, who was broadcasting on her own Sirius channel, Martha Stewart Living Radio.
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Howard Stern Show made its debut broadcast on Sirius on January 9,2006.
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In May 2006, The Howard Stern Show claimed he had received offers from three major companies to return to terrestrial radio.
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Rumors arose in September 2006 that The Howard Stern Show would be returning, and were denied by The Howard Stern Show and Sirius.
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On December 9,2010, The Howard Stern Show announced the signing of a new five-year contract with Sirius XM which ended in December 2015.
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On December 15,2015, Stern announced he signed a new deal with SiriusXM to continue his radio show until December 2020.
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In June 2020, The Howard Stern Show faced criticism for a 1993 sketch from his New Year's Rotten Eve Pageant special in which he appeared in blackface.
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The Howard Stern Show had previously denied having used the n-word during an interview on The View, but used the word several times in the segment.
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