Posted on 05/07/2020 6:39:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Barry Farber, an original pioneer of talk radio who shared his intelligent conservatism with untold millions of listeners during a career in broadcasting that spanned 60 years, has passed away. One day after his 90th birthday on Tuesday, Farber died peacefully at home in New York City, with members of his family at his bedside. On Tuesday, a live program celebrating Farber’s birthday was on in his time slot, featuring his younger brother Jerry, his two daughters Celia and Bibi, and his producer Dahlia Weinstein. During the program, Barry Farber took the mic briefly and spoke his last words that would ever be broadcast.
In 2009, Talkers Magazine placed Farber at number nine on its list of the most influential talk show hosts in American history. In 2014, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. In 1960, 28 years prior to the arrival of Rush Limbaugh on national radio and more than three decades before the Internet and the new media gave citizens a wide range of information choices, Farber began broadcasting his own radio talk show on WINS 1010 in New York City. In the decades that followed, he and a small group of talented and innovative broadcasters brought alternative political insights to mainstream audiences on some of the biggest radio stations – and later, on major radio networks – in the country.
Barry Farber at the mic in the 1980s
A native of North Carolina, for most of his adult life Farber was based in New York City. After several years on the air at WINS, the Barry Farber Show moved to another 50 kw powerhouse station, WOR AM 710.
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I knew Farber slightly at UNC. We tried to talk the school into creating a course in Chinese. He was a very bright guy. Sad. How time flies.
RE: I knew Farber slightly at UNC. We tried to talk the school into creating a course in Chinese.
The man I heard, was a linguist. I don’t know how many languages he learned to speak, but it might have been at least a dozen.
....Before there was a Rush.
RIP Mr. Farber! I got quite an education listening to him. Among his many pearls of wisdom, one of my favorites was when the USSR faced a wheat shortage crisis and had to buy wheat from us. Mr. Farber commented how a country where almost 50% of the people live off the land needs to purchase grain from a country where 3% of the people live off the land. That, right there is one of the best arguments against socialism.
I only heard his show a few times, but he really was a legend. And a legendary end: he turned 90 and died the next day.
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