Leonard Lopate

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Leonard Lopate
Lopate in 2013
Born (1940-09-23) September 23, 1940 (age 83)[1]
Career
ShowThe Leonard Lopate Show
Station(s)WNYC
StyleTalk show host
CountryUnited States

Leonard Lopate (born September 23, 1940) is an American talk show host. He is the former host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC.[2] He first broadcasted on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University—where his brother Phillip was a student—then later at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC.

Lopate's talk show aired on WNYC from noon to 2 pm every weekday. Segments of the show are available as podcasts found on iTunes and on the station's website. He was fired in December 2017 after a sexual harassment investigation.[3]

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  1. "U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2". Ancestry.com. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2010. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. "WNYC - Lopate - Staff Bios". WNYC. Archived from the original on 2006-04-30. Retrieved 2006-04-07.
  3. "New York Public Radio Fires Hosts Lopate and Schwartz". WNYC. Retrieved 2017-12-21.

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