Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

He had more than tripled the station's morning ratings during his stay. Stern has also shot for WHIRL magazine and the North Shore Animal League. Stern was hired full-time in 1977 and worked a four-hour midday shift six days per week on a $96 weekly salary.

Stern performs on its soundtrack which charted at number one on the Billboard 200. In 2012 he became a judge on the television talent show America's Got Talent replacing Piers Morgan.