END OF AN ERA - Bob Grant Let Go At New York's WOR

The Radio Equalizer- Brian Maloney ^ | December 14th, 2005 | Brian Maloney

[chuckpez]

Even though it's Rush Limbaugh who correctly gets credit for revolutionizing talk radio, several others first laid the foundation for the medium's eventual societal impact.

One of those key players has been Bob Grant, a northeastern broadcast giant, who today was let go from New York's WOR 710 AM. The New York Post's John Mainelli has the scoop:

LEGENDARY talk-radio titan Bob Grant is leaving WOR next month by what is said to be a "mutual agreement," The Post has learned.

In a move sure to shock fans who made him New York's top-rated afternoon gabber for decades,

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[southern rock]

BUMP

I just finished reading this thread and the trip down memory lane was amazing!

It was Bob Grant's appearance on the Morton Downey Jr show back in '86 or '87 that turned me on to him and as a result on to talk radio in general and WABC in particular.

I was 16 years old at the time, and after seeing Bob wrestle some dweeb host from Boston on that show (yes, they got into it! who was that other host again? Something Kinsolving?, anyway,), I tuned to WABC at 3pm the following day. I was hooked on Grant from that moment on. Rush debuted a few months later. That experience is probably responsible for forming my beliefs as they are today more than anything else.

[cvq3842]

WOW! I just ran across this. I knew that sooner or later he would be doing his last show - he must be fairly old, but still quite good. WOR seems to be going downhill. I'll be sure to catch his sign off . . .

[BushMeister]

I think "gavone" means pig.

[Coleus]

he’s back on the air on wabc