Career
His work spans all forms of media and is circulated to more than 30,000,000 consumers each month. Blue has a long-running feature spot on WCBS radio in New York City. The subject of the feature was restaurant reviews and lifestyle subjects, mostly associated with food.
Later the program was expanded to include reporting about wine.
Now called the Blue Lifestyle Minute, the feature has been on every day for more than 30 years (except for the two weeks following 9/11). A separate, localized version of The Blue Lifestyle Minute began airing in 1999 on KFWB in Los Los Angeles
In 2009, this feature moved to KABC along with the addition of a new weekend show called "The Taste Buds" co-hosted with Meridith May and Merrill Schindler. In 2014 Blue left KABC and moved The Blue Lifestyle Minute to KNX (Department of Administration and Management) 1070.
This brings Blue"s listenership to over 200,000.
San Francisco Competitions Blue acquired the San Francisco International Wine Competition, the largest international wine competition in the United States (nearly 4,200 wines entered in 2011). lieutenant is the biggest in the United States with more than 1100 entries in 2011. Past publications In 1978, Blue became West Coast Editor of Food & Wine magazine.
He also wrote a weekly syndicated wine column that appeared in the Bay Area, first in the San Francisco Chronicle and then in the San Jose Mercury News.
Tasting Panel Magazine In 2007 Blue purchased, in partnership with Publisher Meridith May, Patterson"s Beverage Journal, a 65-year-old beverage trade publication that was renamed The Tasting Panel. lieutenant has become the highest circulation beverage industry publication.
The Sommelier Journal In December 2013, The Tasting Panel magazine acquired The Sommelier Journal with Blue as the new Editor-in-Chief along with a team of top wine and hospitality industry writers. The first issue of the refreshed publication will be distributed in Spring of 2014.
Blue Lifestyle Blue now runs one of the nation’s most successful producers of wine and food events, creating large trade tastings, wine seminars, lunches and dinners for wineries and wine associations around the world.
Other In 2001 Blue also served as the color commentator on the short-lived reality television series Iron Chef United States of America.
