Ted Brown (radio)

Ted Brown (May 5, 1924-1924-2005), was a charismatic radio personality who worked at several stations in New York City including WMGM, WNEW and WNBC during the 1950s and 1960s, the golden age of AM radio.

Brown was born in Collingswood, New Jersey, the son of Meyer Nathan Brown and Rose Brown. Brown attended Roanoke College in Virginia. He served as a B-17 tail gunner during World War II, and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war after being shot down over Germany. During the 1950s, Brown would broadcast from a studio in the basement of his home in Riverdale in the Bronx. [Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/arts/22brown.html?pagewanted=print&position= "Ted Brown, Talk Show Host and New York Radio D.J., Is Dead"] , "The New York Times", March 22, 2005. Accessed May 4, 2008. "As a teenager in the 1950's, Jonathan Schwartz, another New York radio colleague, watched Mr. Brown broadcasting from his basement studio at his home in Riverdale, in the Bronx. Theodore David Brown was born on May 5 in Collingwoodsic, N.J., the youngest of four children of Meyer Nathan Brown, who owned a grocery store, and Rose Brown."]

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