Who is Howard Stern?

6671 Stern embarked on a book signing tour that attracted an estimated 10,000 fans at a Barnes & Noble store on Fifth Avenue in New York. 71 In its first run, Private Parts spent 20 weeks on The New York Times Best-Seller list. 73 Stern has written forewords for Steal This Dream (1998), a biography of Abbie Hoffman, Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book (1998) by Jackie Martling, Too Fat to Fish (2008) by Artie Lange, and Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox (2010) by Greg Fitzsimmons.

Stern hosted his second pay-per-view event, The Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant, on 5 mar7. It broke the subscriber record for a non-sports event previously held by a New Kids on the Block concert in 1990. 66 Around 400,000 households purchased the event that grossed an estimated $16 million.

74 Stern released the program on VHS in early 1994 as Howard Stern's New Year's Rotten Eve 1994. Between his book royalties and pay-per-view profits, Stern's earnings in the latter months of 1993 totalled around $7.5 million. 75 In its 20th anniversary issue in 1993, Radio & Records named Stern the most influential air personality of the past two decades.

On 5 mar8, Stern announced his candidacy for Governor of New York under the Libertarian Party ticket, challenging Mario Cuomo for re-election. 77 Stern planned to reinstate the death penalty, stagger highway tolls to improve traffic flow, and limit road work to night hours. 78 At the party's nomination convention in Albany on April 23, Stern won the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, receiving 287 of the 381 votes cast (75 ma9%).

James Ostrowski finished second with 34 votes (8.92%). 79 To place his name on the November ballot, Stern was obliged to state his home address and to complete a financial disclosure form under the Ethics in Government Act of 1987. After declining to disclose his financial information, Stern was denied an injunction on August 2. 80 He withdrew his candidacy two days later.

Cuomo was defeated in the gubernatorial election on 5 ma7 by George Pataki, who Stern backed. Pataki signed "The Howard Stern Bill" that limited construction on state roads to night hours in New York and Long Island, in 1995. In 5 ma8, robotic cameras were installed at WXRK studios to film The Howard Stern Show for a condensed, half-hour show on E!.

82 Howard Stern ran for 11 years until the last taped episode aired on 5 mar9. 83 In conjunction with his move to satellite radio, Stern launched Howard Stern on Demand, a subscription video-on-demand service, on 5 ma The service was relaunched as Howard TV on March 16, 2006. On April 3, 1995, three days after the shooting of singer Selena, Stern's comments regarding her death and Mexican Americans caused an uproar in the Hispanic community.

He criticized her music and gunfire sound effects were played over her songs. "This music does absolutely nothing for me.