Howard Stern the Best
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Aaron Hughes
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6 d. ago
Howard Stern has defined what it means to be a shock jock and a talk radio pioneer for decades. His ability to blend raw honesty with celebrity interviews and over-the-top characters created a completely new style of broadcasting that many have tried to copy but few have matched.
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Riley Brooks
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6 d. ago
Nobody pushes the boundaries of terrestrial radio like Stern did with his FCC battles and the "shock jock" era on stations like WXRK in New York. The guy built a loyal cult following by taking insane risks with bits and guests that would never fly today on corporate-owned stations.
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Joseph Reed
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6 d. ago
Spent years helping stations sync their EAS gear with Howard's live feeds because the delay between his mic and the board caused clipping on the backup transmitter.
Austin Bennett
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6 d. ago
He really changed the game for morning shows everywhere by proving you could ditch the boring traffic-and-weather format and build a whole world around one personality. I remember programming a classic rock station and we'd throw in a few of his archived bits from the K-Rock days just to remind people how unpredictable and raw radio used to be before everything got so polished.
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