Posted on 06/25/2009 8:27:22 AM PDT by TAdams8591
At an unfortunate moment, Irv homer, famous talk show host, died on Wednesday. It was only past 10 minutes of his introductory remarks at the program on an author in Eastern University, that Irving collapsed and was taken to the Bryn Mawr Hospital where the doctor declared him to be dead saying that he had a heart attack. The program was canceled when homer became ill. Homer, who was born and brought up in Philadelphia, initially owned three bars in the region. There listening to different shows over the radio made him almost a talk show freak that later initiated him to trace a career out of his passion. He has worked for a charity foundation called Sunshine Foundation in his hometown that caters to the wishes of chronically ill children and their parents.
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RIP.
I lived around the block from him for a while. Had my disagreements with him politically, he often infuriated me, but he was often entertaining.
Rest in Peace Uncle Irv, and say hi to Louie Farfallitis from Schmentzeputzin.
Oh wow, this is terrible. I practically grew up on talk radio with Irv Homer on WWDB. I met him once, and still have a pocket copy of the Constitution he autographed for me.
Irv ran for Vice President of the United States back in 1972 (I believe was the year) with that fellow from New Jersey who had that military junkyard you passed on the way to Long Beach Island. He had hand-painted signs all over his fence with things like Nixon’s head on the body of a rat and the words, “Nixon: red rat traitor.”
Grim Reaper working overtime today.
Herb?
Irv. Gosh, darn, I always did have to think twice about his first name.
Really.
Take good care of that autographed Constitution, even more special that Irv signed it! It is a sad day.
Yes, Irv could be infuriating, though there were certainly times that we agreed. He wasn’t shy about criticizing almost anyone, even el Rushbo!
I used to listen to Irv every day - - even called in once or twice. Besides Irv, WWDB had an interesting lineup, including (at various times) Susan Bray, Dominic Quinn, Tom Marr, Paul W. Smith, Frank Ford, Diane Alexander, Dom Giordano, Phil Valentine....
My favorite part of the week was Tom Marr’s “Saturday Night Shootout”, with regular callers like “Alice” and “Germantown Joe”.
I wonder why WWDB went down the drain so suddenly?
As you know Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death for the December 9, 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.
I recall that because of his support of Mumia Abu-Jamal I and my family refused to listen to his talk show from that time on.
BTW, Tom Marr subbed on a Sunday on 1210 a little more than a month ago and said it felt like old times.
My memory fails me. WWDB fired Rollye James, and their demise wasn't necessarily related to that incident, but they went down shortly thereafter. 1210 is not as good as WWDB was IMHO.
That may well be....my memory’s to vague on it to be certain. Irv had many opinions I strongly disagreed with, and was unpredictable. Couldn’t find any information about it but will continue to look out for it!
I know this thread was dead (no pun intended). With Rush passing away, I thought it was worth mentioning that while Rush’s fame was larger than that of any other talk-show host, for my money, Irv could do it better than anyone I ever heard. I had the privilege of calling Uncle Evil on WWDB a number of times and even at the Bucks County station he was on after WWDB dropped the talk format. RIP to both of them.
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