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. Stern described his older sister Ellen as the "complete opposite" of himself and "very quiet". He later worked as a radio engineer at WHOM in Manhattan and as a co-owner and operator at Aura Recording Inc., a Manhattan recording studio where cartoons and commercials were cut. Army on Long Island and in California during the war. Ray was an office clerk in New York City before she became a homemaker and later took up work as an inhalation therapist. Stern's parents are Jewish, and their families are from Poland and Austria-Hungary. Howard Allan Stern was born on January 12, 1954, the second child of Ben and Ray ( née Schiffman) Stern, in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
From 2012 to 2015, he served as a judge on America's Got Talent. In recent years, Stern's photography has been featured in Hamptons and WHIRL magazines. In 1985, he began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City his morning show entered syndication in 1986 and aired in 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners at its peak. From 1976 to 1982, he developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut He worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985. Stern landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University.
He has broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since 2006. He is best known for his radio show, The Howard Stern Show, which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005. Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, comedian, and author.