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Each weekday morning in the 90s, millions of radio listeners tuned into the Howard Stern show

as they got ready and made their way to work or school.

You never knew what to expect on his syndicated radio show that was based in New York and broadcast across the U.S. and even on a couple of stations in Canada.

This is a great show. This is a good interview. You got Slash, who's the number one rock star. You got girls rubbing you down. I even got a mother-daughter combination.

The 90s were the peak of the shock jock format in radio.

And Howard Stern, with his mix of risque routines and insulting jokes, was at the front of the

pack, blazing a trail for announcers everywhere.

There are two kinds of shock jocks.

The comedic one like Howard Stern, usually found on

FM Hard Rock stations, and the political shock jock like Rush Limbaugh, typically heard on the

AM dial. There we go. There we go. With talent, thank you, in abundance, more than I'll ever need,

on loan from God.

Rush Limbaugh in New York, W.A.B.C. News Talk Radio.

I'm Kathy Kanzora, and on today's episode of History of the 90s, we're looking back at the two

types of shock jocks that dominated radio airwaves in the 1990s.

Before Howard Stern became the self-proclaimed king of all media,

he worked a couple of unmemorable jobs at radio stations in Hartford, Connecticut,

and Detroit, Michigan in the late 70s and early 80s.

Next, he landed at radio station DC 101 in Washington, D.C., where he began

working with his longtime sidekick co-host, Robin Quivers. Their show soon became the number one

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