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In the latest jolt to America's most famous "shock jock," Howard Stern has been fired from a Chicago radio station for the second time in two years.
WCKG-FM (105.9), which has carried Stern's New York-based syndicated morning show since last March, cited unspecified problems with "on-air content" for pulling the plug, effective immediately.
His last show here aired Friday.
Stern, 41, previously aired in Chicago on the former WLUP-AM - now known as WMVP-AM (1000) - for 10 months before he was fired in August, 1993.
"Over the past couple of months, we here at WCKG have become philosophically uncomfortable with some of Howard's on-air content," said a statement released by Mike Disney, vice president and general manager of WCKG. …
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