RIP Gene Burns

By adamg on Sat, 05/25/2013 - 10:57pm

Remember when talk-show hosts mostly weren't all angry, spitting screamers? The Orlando Sentinel reports the former WRKO host - and one-time Libertarian presidential candidate - died today in San Francisco. He was 72.

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Gene Burns

By AdamC on Sun, 05/26/2013 - 12:54am.

I remember listening to Gene Burns when he was on WRKO before Jerry Williams on weekday afternoons. I also remember his cookie exchange and when my brother was on it.

Started out at WCBM in Baltimore in the '60s

By anon on Sun, 05/26/2013 - 8:53am.

He started out his talk radio career in the '60s at WCBM (AM 680) in Baltimore. As a seven-year-old I listened to him with an earphone plugged into my own red Panasonic transistor radio smuggled under the sheets after lights-out.

He was classy. He was the real deal.

Nice Wikipedia entry for him

By bostonzest on Sun, 05/26/2013 - 3:39pm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Burns

Very Nice Man

By Suldog on Sun, 05/26/2013 - 5:34pm.

He took part in a couple of Libertarian Party state conventions while I was involved with those events. Very nice man, a pure joy from a professional standpoint, a class act all the way.

Very sad news :-(

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

A consummate professional &

By KB on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 12:16am.

A consummate professional & gentlemen. Unfortunately the mold has been broken. Rest in peace sir.