Franklin was a fixture on late-night radio and TV in New York, working at WJZ and WOR, and recently at the Bloomberg Radio Network.
“The last two weeks were the first time he ever missed a broadcast in over 60 years” says Garrin.
And though he never broke on to the national scene, Franklin was “in many ways, the pioneer of the modern TV Talk Show Format,” according to his website which says he interviewed more than 300,000 guests.
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Before YouTube, Twitter, etc., the ambitious-but-not-necessarily-talented had few options. Places like The Joe Franklin Show gave them voice
CNN’s Joe Sutton contributed to this report.
