Howard Stern takes a bow from radio broadcasting at 70 years and….

It’s a testament to the savvy and business instincts of Howard Stern that, even for those who have never listened to a single minute of talk radio, he hardly needs an introduction. Stern began his career as a radio personality in the late ’70s, but it wasn’t until the mid-’80s that he, along with his faithful sidekick Robin Quivers, perfected the format for which the term “shock jock” was coined. For Stern and Quivers, virtually nothing was off limits — and often, all of the vulgar humor, in-studio nudity, and Federal Communications Commission fines tended to obscure the fact that Stern happened to be a very good interviewer.