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Elvis Duran
Elvis Duran has hosted "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show" on New York's Z100 radio station since 1996, building it into one of the most widely syndicated morning radio programs in the United States, broadcast on stations across dozens of markets nationwide. His show became particularly known for launching and popularizing numerous pop songs early in their commercial life, with Duran's on-air endorsement and rotation frequently cited by the music industry as a significant factor in several songs' subsequent mainstream chart success. Duran has maintained his show's continuous run at Z100 for nearly three decades, an unusually long single-station tenure for a major-market morning radio host in an industry where personnel and station affiliations frequently change. Elvis Duran's combination of his nearly three-decade continuous tenure at Z100 and his show's significant influence launching new pop music hits has made him one of the most enduringly significant radio hosts in the contemporary music radio industry.
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Howard Stern
Howard Stern built his radio career through the 1980s and 1990s with a deliberately provocative, unscripted "shock jock" style that repeatedly drew record-setting FCC indecency fines against the stations that carried his show, fines that Stern's employer, Infinity Broadcasting, ultimately paid in full to keep him on the air. His self-proclaimed title "King of All Media" reflected a career that expanded well beyond radio into books, pay-per-view specials, and a 1997 biographical film, "Private Parts," based on his own bestselling memoir of the same name. Stern made a landmark move to Sirius Satellite Radio in 2006, signing a reported $500 million, five-year contract, one of the largest media deals in radio history at the time, specifically to escape FCC content restrictions that don't apply to satellite radio's subscription-based model. Howard Stern's combination of his record-setting FCC indecency fines during his terrestrial radio career and his landmark $500 million satellite radio deal has made him one of the most commercially and culturally significant radio hosts in American broadcasting history.
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