Ted Brown (radio)
Ted Brown (May 5, 1924 – March 20, 2005) was an American radio personality in New York City during the 1950s to the 1980s. He worked at WMGM, WNEW, WNBC, and WOR.
Born in Collingswood, New Jersey, Brown was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Rose and Meyer Brown. He attended Roanoke College in Virginia. Brown served in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a tail gunner on a B-17 during World War II and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-C after being shot down over Germany.
Brown began radio work at WOR in 1946, mostly doing nighttime music shows. In 1949 he filled in on WNEW’s morning team and got his own early morning show. He moved to WMGM (later WHN) that December and stayed there until 1962. After a station change, he returned to WNEW for a late afternoon shift, then joined WNBC in 1970 for afternoons. WNEW hired him again in 1972 for the afternoon show, moved him to mornings in 1978, and he remained there as the station shifted to adult standards. He kept working at WNEW until 1989.
In the 1990s he helped host New York Giants games on WNEW, and from 1993 to 1995 he worked mid-days at WRIV in Riverhead, New York, and on WVNJ 1160 in New Jersey until a stroke in 1996 ended much of his on-air work. He signed off his show with the line, “Warm up that coffee Mama, I’m coming home.”
Brown was married three times; his second wife was actress Sylvia Miles. They divorced in 1970, with Brown paying alimony for years. He died at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, Bronx, New York, from complications of a stroke at age 80. He attended Roanoke College.
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