Radio show shocks TV

Nonconformist antics have caused show to be canceled in Texas

Jimmy Chai, On-Line Forty-Niner

Thursday, September 10, 1998

Howard Stern's daily radio show, aired in Los Angeles on KLSX-FM, is taped and broadcast on CBS television Saturday nights opposite "Saturday Night Live."

Although Stern already has a show on E! Television on cable, the CBS show, humbly named "The Howard Stern Radio Show," is unlike any show ever aired in network history.

Stern's show has stunned its national audience with kissing nude lesbians, world-record expelling contests and in-depth childhood-trauma interviews with celebrities.

Quick-witted Stern's no-holds-barred attitude and clever format has made his radio show top of the list.

Stern's relationship with co-host Robin Quivers is unmatched by any other duo.

Their tag team psychoanalysis of everyone - including each other - is a complete polar of Stern's outrageous format of mortal pleasures.

All the crazy antics of the cast, which before would be left to the imagination of morning drivers, is now brought to television.

"I know human nature," said Stern on his radio show. And it is his hopes to translate that into a successful show on the small screen.