Specs Howard (born Julian Liebman; April 8, 1926 – September 3, 2022) was an American radio personality who spent three decades entertaining audiences in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan.
[1] He achieved notice as one of the members of the Martin and Howard Show in Cleveland during the 1960s before moving to Detroit.
[1][2] His chosen name "Specs" came from his lifetime of wearing glasses [spectacles] and his adopted surname "Howard" reportedly was taken randomly out of a phone book.
[2] In 1970, he created the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
[2][3] Since the school's inception in 1970, thousands of people have graduated and gone on to have successful radio and television broadcasting careers.