Harry Harrison (radio)

He listened to a lot of radio while confined to bed for rheumatic fever[?] for a year, and started broadcasting at the age of 14 in his hometown of Chicago at an educational station, WBEZ. He moved to Chicago's WCFL as a summer replacement and remained there eight months.

Harry next became program director at WPEO in Peoria, Illinois, and hosted their morning show. WPEO became the top-rated station in six months, and Harry, well known in the Midwest, was recruited by New York City's WMCA[?].

In 1959 Harry joined WMCA as a morning personality with great success for about eight years. WABC hired him in 1968 to replace Herb Oscar Anderson[?] as their morning drive air personallity. He stayed at WABC until it hit troubled times in 1979. In 1980 he became the morning personality at Oldies station WCBS-FM. He retired in 2003.