![]() ![]() 1 in, among other cities, New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. ![]() His radio program is syndicated in thirty-five major markets and is ranked No. He avoids nearly all human contact except with his real family and his "radio family": Robin Quivers Gary Dell'Abate, his producer his writers, Jackie (The Jokeman) Martling and Fred Norris and a gaggle of other producers, internes, and lackeys.Stern has declared himself the King of All Media, and not without justification. He refuses to go out to dinner or to parties. He is a hermit, who shuttles between the dark basement on Long Island and a dark studio in the city. The look is a conceit, however-a professional necessity. Every weekday morning, Stern puts on a show that is longer than "Gone with the Wind." Stern is forty-three, and with his dark sunglasses and long tresses, looks rather like the lead guitarist in a heavy-metal band that has stayed on the road well past the age of plausibility. No one in the history of radio has gone further by being in touch with his inner fifteen-year-old. The dirty jokes he writes are an essential component of Stern's morning radio program and of a multimedia empire of books, television programs, audiotapes, videocassettes, compact disks, and now a movie. PROFILE of radio personality Howard Stem. ![]()
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