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Miami radio and nightclubs. Gray broadcast on WMIE-AM radio from three Miami Beach nightclubs (the Copa Lounge, Danny and Doc's Jewel Box and the Martha Raye Club) nightly during the fall of 1948 and into 1949 before he left the Miami area due to an incident in which Gray bopped an audience member with his microphone while he was on the air.
- Bernard Yaroslaw, July 2, 1916, Red Lion, New Jersey
WMCA broadcast the first Negro-oriented anthology series New World A'Coming, written by Roi Ottley in 1944. And in 1945, host Barry Gray began dropping music and adding talk with celebrities and later call-ins from listeners. Gray is sometimes considered "The Father of Talk Radio", and his show on WMCA lasted through several decades and format ...
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Dec 23, 1996 · Barry Gray, the smooth-talking but sometimes tart-tongued host of a late-night radio talk show, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 80. Mr. Gray, widely credited with creating...
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Gray moved to Miami in 1948 and broadcast on WMIE-AM radio from three Miami Beach nightclubs. Barry Gray returned to WMCA in 1950, and stayed there for 39 years, refining the talk show format still utilized today. Gray was also known as a fierce critic of bigotry and survived McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
Apr 9, 2024 · Dec 22, 1996. Pioneer talk-show host Barry S. Gray, 80, who was a fixture on WMCA radio for 39 years, died early Saturday in his sleep, according to WOR radio. Gray, who worked at WOR for...
Dec 14, 1976 · Barry Gray, who had become a fixture of late night radio in New York with a talk show on WMCA that began in 1950, resigned from the station yesterday. He had been suspended three weeks ago...
Dec 22, 1996 · Barry Gray, the smooth-talking but sometimes tart-tongued host of a late-night radio talk show, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 80.
