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AT A GLANCE
Title: VOD talk show host
How long in current position: Launches March 16
Year of birth: Jan. 12, 1954
Place of birth: Jackson Heights, NX
What to watch for: Whether Mr, Stern gathers enough subscribers to prompt other shows to try launching in a strictly video-on-demand format. Also, potential content controversy and battles with his bosses at iN Demand.
Who knew? Mr. Stern has a brown belt in Shotokan karate.
Nobody self-aggrandizes like Howard Stern, who calls himself the "King of All Media" and spins his every corporate dispute as an apocalyptic showdown.
But Mr. Stern's relaunch of his 11-year-old television show in a subscription video-on-demand format to roughly coincide with his move to satellite radio is an event that nearly...