Ted Brown (radio)

Ted Brown (May 5, 1924-March 20, 2005), was a charismatic radio personality who worked at several stations in New York City including WMGM, WNEW and WNBC during the 1950s and 1960s, the golden age of AM radio.

Brown was born in Collingswood, New Jersey, the son of Meyer Nathan Brown and Rose Brown. Brown attended Roanoke College in Virginia. He served as a B-17 tail gunner during World War II, and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war after being shot down over Germany. During the 1950s, Brown would broadcast from a studio in the basement of his home in Riverdale in the Bronx.

Radio Career
In 1953, Ted 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 WNBC from the late 60's to the early 70's. At that point he went back to WNEW as afternoon drive air personality. He moved to mornings in 1978. When WNEW began evolvng in 1979 from Adult Contemporary to Adult Standards/Big Bands by 1981, Ted remained. He continued working at WNEW until 1989 when he semi-retired. In the 1990's he helped host New York Giants football games on WNEW. From 1993 to 1995, Ted worked middays at WRIV, a Standards station in Riverhead New York and on WVNJ 1160 Oakland, New Jersey playing standards and big bands from early in 1996 to about 1998 when he suffered a stroke.