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The radio on my nightstand usually played classic rock, but 1994 was my summer of talk radio. During those heady days of populist-conservative backlash, the medium was a near constant companion. Lunch with Rush, drive time with the indefatigable Beacon Hill-basher Howie Carr and a full five hours a night with David Brudnoy. Anyone who has ever cruised up and down the static-and-blather-filled AM dial knows that few hosts are capable of providing five hours of meaningful discussion, but rarely did the "David Brudnoy Show" disappoint. So every weeknight, unless the Bruins rudely interrupted, I and some 3 million others...

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | December 12, 2004 IN THE SPRING of 1983, about a year after we'd first met, David Brudnoy took me to lunch. Most of what we spoke about that day I have long since forgotten. But two things he said still stick in my mind. One was a comment about wine, a topic about which I know next to nothing. Most white wines are drinkable, Brudnoy told me, but rarely do you encounter a great white wine. The really spectacular wines, he went on, are almost always red -- but, alas, most red wines are...

David Brudnoy, the radio-talk-show host who dominated the evening airwaves of Boston on WBZ AM 1030 since 1986, died Thursday of cancer at the age of 64. Brudnoy joined what he called the "National Review family" in the late 1960s; the Boston Globe this morning called him a "protege of the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley Jr." Brudnoy attained a certain degree of national fame, about which he was never entirely comfortable, in 1994 when he nearly died from a viral infection and spent nine days in a medically induced coma in a Boston hospital. As rumors swirled about the...

Thursday, December 9, 2004 BOSTON - David Brudnoy, the most recognized voice of Boston talk radio for more than a quarter of a century, died Thursday night at Massachusetts General Hospital, his radio station, WBZ-AM, reported. He was 64. Brudnoy, whose soothing voice could be heard every week night in 38 states and in Canada on WBZ since 1986, announced on air in September, 2003 that he was suffering from merkel cell carcinoma, a form of rare but treatable skin cancer. He had already lived with AIDS for more than a decade, beating a viral infection that nearly took his...

In my opinion one of the greatest talk show hosts of all time & a great conservative voice in the heart of enemy country.

David Brudnoy's voice has filled the cars and kitchens of the everyday and the elite for nearly three decades, his thoughts shaping the way tens of thousands of listeners view the world beyond their doors. But yesterday, the radio talk-show host could muster little more than a raspy whisper as he confided that a rare form of untreatable cancer has overwhelmed his body, and he expects to die within days. 'I'm ready," said Brudnoy, 64, in an interview in his room at Massachusetts General Hospital, oxygen tubes in his nostrils and the light from a picture window highlighting deep caverns...