Howard Stern is Transforming Radio - Commentary: Shock-jock is Media Newsmaker of the Year
CBSMarketWatch, December 17, 2004
, Friday, December 17, 2004 12 AM
Howard Stern, the notorious shock jock/best-selling author/movie star, has been known to bellow at anyone who will listen that he is "The King of All Media." That hyperbolic rant from the King of All Self-Promoters aside, Stern, 50, is Media Web's selection as the Media Newsmaker of the Year because of his resounding one-man October Surprise. Stern bellowed that he'll leave Viacom's Infinity radio unit when his contract expires and join Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006.
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