Talk Radio and TV Personality Alan Colmes DEAD @ 66
Fox News.com/Alan Colmes dies 66
Industry Talk Media publication "TALKERS" wrote about ALAN COLMES this morning:
Talk Media Icon, Alan Colmes, Dead at 66.
 In what comes as shocking news to the world’s talk media
community, longtime radio broadcaster, talk show host, and political pundit Alan Colmes passed
away in New York City this morning after bravely battling an illness for the
past several months. Colmes, who began his stellar radio career as a
teenager on such Long Island stations as WGBB, Freeport and WGSM, Huntington
went on to star on the legendary outlets WABC, WNBC, WHN, WMCA, WEVD in New
York. His career also included stints at WNHC, New Haven as well as
WZLX and WEZE in Boston. Colmes was a pioneer in the modern talk radio
syndication industry launching the seminal Daynet with Barry Farber in the
early 1990s. He also played a role in the developing NYC comedy scene
as a successful stand-up comic during the 1980s. Colmes joined Fox News Channel in
1996 where he co-hosted the legendary program “Hannity & Colmes” with Sean Hannity until the
end of 2008. He had continued on the channel since then as an in-house
contributing commentator and hosted a nightly syndicated radio program on Fox News Radio.
For the past two years he had also been in development with TalkersRadio of an
experimental program titled “Healed Planet” that explores one of his personal
passions, the subject of the human consciousness movement. Colmes was a
graduate of Hofstra
University and a charter inductee into its radio station,
WRHU’s Hall of Fame. More information and details to come. TALKERS publisher Michael Harrison,
who has known Colmes since their days together at Hofstra and Long Island
stations, states, “Alan Colmes was one of the greatest radio performers and
talk media personalities of our time. Yet, there is so much about his
talent and personality that people don’t know. He was a man of
impeccable character and generosity with talents that extended way beyond the
frame of reference in which he was primarily cast in the public’s view. This
is a devastating loss.” |
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