Genre Documentary Country United States | Running time 4-6 hours per episode Announcer Jim Forbes | |
Home station Howard 100 and Howard 101 Starring Howard Stern
Robin Quivers
Fred Norris
Gary Dell'Abate | ||
The History of Howard Stern is a radio documentary series about the life, career and achievements of American radio personality Howard Stern broadcast on Howard 100 and Howard 101 on Sirius XM Radio. The ongoing series has featured 35 episodes across four "Acts" as of January 2011. Each episode includes segments from past broadcasts of The Howard Stern Show, interviews with Stern's staff and celebrity guests, his family and news reports. Narrated by Jim Forbes of VH1's Behind the Music, the series is produced by "The Tapes Team", a group at Sirius who put together other special programming such as Mammary Lane and Stern Spotlight.
In 2008, the series won a Communicator Award. Act III was given a Silver World Medal award at the 2010 International Radio Programming and Promotion Awards in the History category.
Background
On June 7, 2006, Stern announced on his show that the lawsuit settlement with CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting) finally gave Sirius exclusive rights to his entire back catalogue of radio shows from his time at terrestrial radio station WXRK, which spanned over twenty years from November 1985 to December 2005, totalling almost 23,000 hours. It was reported that Sirius agreed to pay CBS $2 million for the rights, approximately $87 per-hour of tape. Sirius held the rights to the tapes until the end of Stern's initial 5-year contract with the satellite company on December 31, 2010, when all rights returned to Stern. On December 2, 2009, it was announced that every tape had been digitized on a server taking up multiple terabytes of data. The process took close to five years to complete. This has allowed all specials broadcast on Howard 100 and Howard 101 to be produced.