Ted Brown

March 5, 1924 (age 81)

Collingswood, New Jersey , United States

He served as a B-17 tail gunner during World World War II, and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war after being shot down over Germany. During the 1950s, Brown broadcast from a studio in the basement of his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. In 1953, Brown began working at WNEW 1130 as an air-personality. He worked there off and on and at one point he worked at WMGM playing rock and roll. He indeed returned to WNEW and then worked at W National Broadcasting Company from the late 60s to the early 70s. At that point he went back to WNEW as afternoon drive air personality. He moved to mornings in 1978 and remained after WNEW began evolving in 1979 to Adult Standards/Big Bands by 1981. He continued working at WNEW until 1989 when he semi-retired. In the 1990s he helped host New York Giants football games on WNEW. From 1993-1995, Brown worked mid-days at WRIV, a standards station in Riverhead, New York, and on WVNJ 1160 in Oakland, New Jersey, playing standards and big bands from early in 1996 to about 1998 when he suffered a stroke. He signed-off his show with the phrase "Put on the coffee Mama. I"m coming home." Brown died at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale due to complications of a stroke he had suffered several years earlier.

Ted Brown

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Background

Theodore David Brown was born in Collingswood, New Jersey to Meyer Nathan Brown, a grocery store owner, and Rose Brown.

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Brown attended Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

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He served as a B-17 tail gunner during World World War II, and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war after being shot down over Germany. During the 1950s, Brown broadcast from a studio in the basement of his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. In 1953, Brown began working at WNEW 1130 as an air-personality.

He worked there off and on and at one point he worked at WMGM playing rock and roll.

He indeed returned to WNEW and then worked at W National Broadcasting Company from the late 60s to the early 70s. At that point he went back to WNEW as afternoon drive air personality.

He moved to mornings in 1978 and remained after WNEW began evolving in 1979 to Adult Standards/Big Bands by 1981. He continued working at WNEW until 1989 when he semi-retired.

In the 1990s he helped host New York Giants football games on WNEW. From 1993-1995, Brown worked mid-days at WRIV, a standards station in Riverhead, New York, and on WVNJ 1160 in Oakland, New Jersey, playing standards and big bands from early in 1996 to about 1998 when he suffered a stroke.

He signed-off his show with the phrase "Put on the coffee Mama. I"m coming home."

Brown died at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale due to complications of a stroke he had suffered several years earlier.

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