Howard Stern is a radio personality, producer, actor, author, and is the self proclaimed “King of All Media”. Stern is widely known for “The Howard Stern Show”, which was aired on FM radio from 1986 to 2005, until it moved to Sirius XM Radio in 2006. Stern specific style of “shock jock” radio is what makes him so popular, taking him only four years to get his show nationally syndicated in 1986.
Howard Allan Stern was born January 12, 1954 in New York, New York to parents Ray and Ben Stern. For the first 15 years of his life, Stern lived in Roosevelt, Long Island, NY. Sterns love for radio was inherited from his father, who owned part of a recording studio. Stern displayed a love of performing from an early age. Encouraged by his mother, Stern would create puppet shows for his friends, and then perform them in his basement. The shows of course would have Sterns personal touch of being outrageous. Sterns social life growing up was not the best. Roosevelt having a large African American population made it hard for Stern to fit in and he the target of school fights. The Stern family moved to Rockville Centre, in 1969, when Stern was 15.
In 1972, Stern left for Boston University. Stern began volunteering at the college radio station where he and his
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The Howard Stern Show was the station's morning show and started to pull in better ratings than every other show at the station. After only a year, the show was syndicated, allowing Stern to get into the other markets like Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Sterns radio squad now consisted of Robin Quivers, producer Gary Dell'Abate, writer Fred Norris, and stand-up comedian Jackie Martling. By 1993, Stern had an estimated three million daily listeners and could be heard in 14 different markets and by 1995 Stern making eight million dollars a
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20th 1978. Sinclair grew up in a broken household; his father was an alcohol salesman and killed himself drinking. While his mother would not even think about drinking alcohol. So these personalities naturally clashed. So Sinclair found some solace in books, Sinclair was a natural writer and he began publishing at the young age of fifteen years old. Sinclair started off going to school at a small college by the name of New York City College. This was just temporary as Sinclair would need time and money to move higher up to a form of better education. So as a result Sinclair took the initiative and he started writing columns on ethnic jokes and hack fiction for small magazines in New York. The money he earned writing these columns allowed him to completely pay for New York City College, and eventually enroll to attend Columbia University. Sinclair worked as hard as he possibly could to get into Columbia University and he was going to do the absolute best he could while he was attending the University. Since Sinclair needed ex...
Sinatra’s early years were spent in Hoboken, dreaming of a “better life';. Francis A. Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Being members of the Catholic faith, he was not baptized until April 2, 1916. He faced adversity as soon as he was born, nearly dying of birth complications that left him scarred for three months after he was conceived. As, a result of this, he was often bantered by members of his class and children of his neighborhood, who called ...
The Life of Billy Joel Billy Joel was born on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York. He moved at the age of four to a small town on Long Island. This is where at the ripe age of four he discovered the art of music. Originally a classical music fan, Billy Joel honed his skills with classical piano training. This undoubtedly has had a major influence on his life and certainly his music.
Throughout America’s history there have been countless influential leaders that have proudly been American. Those have held positions of politicians, soldiers, and . Kanye Omari West has opened the eyes of today's generation and still continues to shape American history. His musical influence has transformed the lives of countless people. Inspiring many to stand up and fight for what they believe in is something Kanye West continues to do even today.. Also, opening the eyes of many to racial injustice towards African American citizens. I’ll further elaborate my claim in the following paragraphs using historical evidence.
...y and western music was the norm; and mainstream pop was practically everywhere in urban settings. However, as populations shifted, word of mouth spread, and radio stations were able to amplify the reach of their signals – white, middle-class teenagers came to discover a whole other world of music. Take for example, Alan Freed’s radio program, The Moondog Show, which played hit R&B records when other major stations refused to play them. Like radio stations, who utilized recorded music to garner an audience, TV shows did the same by holding special guest appearances by a famous musician or band. These appearances would not only generate views to keep the show on air, but it also elevated its popularity. As an example, consider Ed Sullivan’s television show, Toast of the Town, which went on to boost the popularity of Elvis Presley and several musicians and bands after.
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was born in a boardinghouse in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878, to Upton Beall and Priscilla Harden Sinclair. Sinclair's childhood was complicated and the future of his family was always economically uncertain. His family was still recovering from the devastation dealt to the Southern aristocracy by Federal Reconstruction, and his father, an unsuccessful liquor salesman, was an alcoholic who often squandered the family's income. When he was ten, Sinclair's family moved to New York City, where they lived in numerous boardinghouses. Sinclair explains, "...one night I would be sleeping on a vermin-ridden sofa in a lodging house, and the next night under silken coverlets in a fashionable home. It all depended on whether my father had the money for that week's board" (qtd. in Liukkonen).
Show as an anchor in 1996. Roker also hosted his own morning segment for the Weather
When one considers the history of classical music, often images of Vienna, Prague, and other European cities come to mind. Centuries of European musical achievement and development have implanted in society the idea that classical music is an inherently European creation. Considering the accomplishments of countless composers such as J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Antonin Dvorak, this preconception is certainly not unfounded. However, Leonard Bernstein's rise to international fame proved that one cannot neglect American composers in a discussion of the development of Western music. Combining elements of a vast array of musical styles, Bernstein's unique compositions reached a wide variety of audiences and often bridged gaps between distinct musical genres. Through his long conducting career, profoundly influential compositional output, and televised music lectures, Leonard Bernstein left a lasting legacy which came to define American music in the 20th century.
I think there are only two value propositions that Sirius gives their consumers. I think the number of radio stations and genres that they have is the most important. The second most important I think is that they have no commercials on most of their stations. I think that these value propositions would sell most of the nation, but that isn't true because there are only around 700,000 subscribers total. I completely agree with these value propositions, these value propositions give satellite radio the edge against FM and AM radio.
Frank Sinatra was born on December 12th, 1915, in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. Frank Sinatra was an only child of his mother Dolly and father Anthony. He lived in what appeared to be the small slums of the industrialized city of Hoboken as that is where most of the Italian immigrants resided at the time. Sadly he had grown up through the hardships that came with the great depression and wartime during his general childhood upbringing in the early 1900’s. Which introduced this idea of living in a
Howard Cosell, a legendary commentator, spoke words about this legendary man that more or less sums up his legendary career. He said "Frank Sinatra, who has the phrasing, who has the control, who understands the composers, who knows what losing means as so many have, who made the great comeback, who stands still, enduringly, on top of the entertainment world. Ladies and gentlemen, from here on in it's Frank Sinatra!" Frank Sinatra, the only singer in history to have hit records in five consecutive decades, led a lot more distinctive life than people were led to believe.
Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Leonard's father, Samuel immigrated to America in 1908 at the age of sixteen from the Russian province of Volhynia where he came from a long line of rabbis. (Gradenwitz 1987: 20)
MTV: Music Television was an idea formed by various communication specialists. Majority of the acknowledgment for the making of MTV is given to Tom Freston, an entertainment industry executive, and Robert Pittman, an American businessman. The idea to create a station such as MTV was not one that would have been called random, or unrelated to the time period. This idea was more of a question of how to accomplish something as new as this. Music videos were not widely popular, and in order for MTV to survive, audiences had to be consumed by these videos. On Saturday August 1st, 1981, at 12:01 am Eastern Time, MTV has their debut. The channel opened with, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” said by John Lack in their New York City studio. The original purpose of MTV was to play music videos 24/7, all the time. People known as “Video Jockeys” or “VJs” directed these videos. Videos played all day for a period of time, but eventually MTV began running television programs such as “The Real World” and “The Osbournes.” In 1984, the NY Times reported that MTV planned to start a second 24-hour music channel in January aimed at viewers aged 25 to 49 (NY Times 1984). Present day, MT...
The 1920's brought many advancements in technology which allowed Americans to entertain themselves at home; the radio was one of them. The radio was actually developed before the 1920's; however, it was banned during World War I and allowed to reappear after the Prohibition ended in 1919 (Events 72). After the Prohibition ended, and radio broadcasting was being brought back to life, many people started up their first stations, like Frank Conrad (Events 72). Frank Conrad's first broadcast consisted of the Presidential Election results (Events 72). As Conrad was one of the first people to broadcast, KDKA was one of the first radio stations to appear in the Unite...
The radio in its current version as with many other technologies like it, evolved into the profile it now holds. Born out of the development of the telegraph, the radio was a kind of wireless telegraph. Its root date back to the mid-1800, when Rudolph Hertz demonstrated varying electricity can generate radio waves, around the end of the 1800’s. Besides the radio technology itself, the world patent system was being tested as well. Two inventors where fighting for the right to say they were the first to patent the radio technology. Marconi and Tesla both transmitted radio signals; Tesla eventually won the fight in court in 1943. The technology was further expanded by the introduction of the Radiotelegraph and Spark-Gap Transmitter. These technological improvements were used in ship to ship and ship to shore communications. Further development followed and changed the radio into the likeness we know and love even today. The AM radio coined by Lee Deforest, soon after this development with the release of the U.S. patents commercial broadcast by civilians started to be made. True broadcast started showing up around the globe in New York and Paris (at the Eiffel Tower) for example. The last and most significant improvement in my opinion was in the development of FM transmissions (About.com Inventors n.d.). The radio has survived in this form for alm...