Thursday, March 6, 1997By JEFF CRAIG --

Howard Stern isn't heard on Canadian radio and is only seen on Canadian TV if he guests on Letterman or Leno - or if you're lucky enough to get the American E! network via your grey-market satellite.

But south of here, he's heard by 18 to 25 million people every weekday morning on his syndicated radio show - which is the No. 1-rated morning program in New York, Los Angeles and some 30 some cities in between. Another 30 million people tune in at night when cable's E! broadcasts a one-hour "best of" at night.

In September 1995, Stern's employer, paid $1.7 million in obscenity fines to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC particularly didn't find it funny when Stern joked about masturbating to a picture of Aunt Jemima.

In 1994, Stern ran for New York governor, campaigning to bring back the death penalty ("Volt for Every Vote") and to use executed prisoners' ashes to fill potholes.

Polls placed him at No. 2 in the race before he pulled out over a refusal to disclose his personal finances.


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