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Joe Franklin, New York TV Talk Show Pioneer, Dies at 88 by Cynthia Littleton

Joe Franklin, the New York media fixture who hosted one of TV’s first and longest-running talk shows, died Saturday. He was 88. “The Joe Franklin Show” was a Gotham latenight staple on WWOR-TV from 1962 to 1993. Franklin got his start in 1951 with a daytime show on WJZ-TV, the station that is now WABC-TV.... Read more »

SOURCE: Variety at 10:07AM on January 25, 2015

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