howard stern

霍华德·艾伦·斯特恩（英语：Howard Allan Stern，1954年1月12日—）是美国广播电视名人、喜剧演员和作家。他最出名的是他的广播节目《霍华德·斯特恩秀》，该节目在1986年至2005年期间在全国范围内通过地面广播播出时广受欢迎。自2006年以来，他一直在天狼星XM广播节目。

斯特恩在波士顿大学期间获得了他的第一份电台工作。近年来，斯特恩的摄影作品登上了Hamptons和WHIRL杂志。2012年至2015年期间，他担任《美国达人》评委。

斯特恩赢得了无数行业奖项，包括连续八次获得公告牌之全国电视广播人物奖（Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year），他是第一个同时拥有纽约和洛杉矶最佳晨间秀的人。美国联邦通信委员会曾认为内容不雅而向电台拥有者处以总计250万美元的罚款，他成为被罚款最多的电台主持人。2004年，斯特恩在2004年与天狼星卫星广播签订了一份价值5亿美元的五年合约，让成为收入最高的电台人物之一。

自1992年以来，斯特恩称自己为“所有媒体之王”（King of All Media），因为他在广播之外取得了成功。他主持并制作了许多深夜电视节目、按次付费节目和家庭录像。他的两本书《Private Parts》(1993) 和《Miss America》(1995) 进入纽约时报畅销书排行榜第一名，销量超过一百万册。斯特恩在其原声带上表演，该原声带在Billboard200上名列第一，并以100万张的销量获得白金认证。斯特恩于2019年发行的第三本书《Howard Stern Comes Again》。

Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American broadcaster, comedian, and media personality. He is best known for The Howard Stern Show, which rose to prominence through national syndication on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005; he has broadcast on SiriusXM since 2006.

Stern began his radio career while at Boston University. From 1976 to 1982, he developed his on-air style at WRNW (Briarcliff Manor, NY), WCCC (Hartford, CT), WWWW (Detroit, MI), and WWDC (Washington, D.C.). He later worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985, before starting a 20-year run at WXRK. His morning show entered syndication in 1986, eventually reaching 60 markets and peaking at 20 million listeners. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a judge on America's Got Talent. In his SiriusXM years, he gained renewed attention for long-form interviews, including The Howard Stern Interview: Bruce Springsteen (2022) and 2024 interviews with Then President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Stern has received numerous awards, including Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year for eight consecutive years, and became the first host to hold the number one morning show in both New York City and Los Angeles. He is also the most fined radio host, with the Federal Communications Commission issuing $2.5 million in fines to station owners over indecent content. In 2004, he signed a five-year, $500 million deal with Sirius, making him one of the highest-paid figures in radio; he renewed his SiriusXM contract for three more years in December 2025.

Calling himself the "King of All Media" since 1992, Stern has worked across television, pay-per-view, and home video. His books Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995) both debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list and sold over one million copies. Private Parts was adapted into a 1997 biographical comedy film starring Stern and his radio team, topping the U.S. box office in its opening week and grossing $41.2 million domestically. Its soundtrack reached number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum. His third book, Howard Stern Comes Again, was released in 2019.

Early life and education

Howard Allan Stern was born on January 12, 1954, in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the second child of Ben (1923–2022) and Ray (née Schiffman) Stern (b. 1927). His parents are Jewish, with family roots in Poland and Austria-Hungary. Ray worked as an office clerk in New York City before becoming a homemaker and later an inhalation therapist. Ben served in the U.S. Army on Long Island and in California during the war, and later worked as a radio engineer at WHOM in Manhattan and as co-owner and operator of Aura Recording Inc., a Manhattan studio where cartoons and commercials were produced. Stern described his older sister Ellen as the "complete opposite" of himself and "very quiet."

In 1955, the family moved to Roosevelt, New York, on Long Island, where Stern attended Washington-Rose Elementary School followed by Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School. He also attended Hebrew school, where he was given the name Tzvi. As a child, Stern took five years of piano lessons and developed an interest in marionettes, entertaining friends with explicit shows. He later formed a band with two school friends, Electric Comicbook, performing vocals and keyboards. From age nine through his second year of university, Stern spent his summers at Camp Wel-Met, a youth camp in Narrowsburg, New York, where he worked as a camper, in the kitchen, and as a counselor; he later described it as "the greatest experience."