John Gambling Radio Show Rating: 9,2/10 8793 reviews
John A. Gambling—host of Rambling with Gambling on WOR/New York City— entertained morning radio listeners six days a week for over 30 years.
Their news-and-talk show became the longest-running program in history and a model for morning programming on radio and television. Gambling, began the show's forerunner in 1925. When he retired in 1959, his son, John A. Gambling, took over, and he was succeeded in 1990 by his grandson, John R.
After Dartmouth, he became production assistant for his father, John B. Gambling, and later filled in for him on occasion—until 1959 when John B. retired and John A. took over the program. Morning drive-time “easy listening” evolved into “all talk” and included weather, consumer reports, sportscasts with personality and the first helicopter traffic reports on radio.
On his weekly call-in radio show with John Gambling on WABC-AM, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may not have kept up the Wild West tone of his combative predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani - he never berated a caller as 'deranged' or told a woman whose son had been shot dead by the police that she should question his upbringing. The John Gambling Show on May 1, 2012. John talks about his new advertiser, Newcandescent.com. The Gambling name is legendary in local radio history – John B. Gambling started hosting mornings on WOR in 1925, his son John A. Gambling took over the show in 1959, and John R. Gambling joined. Craig Carton, the WFAN star who is recovering from a gambling addiction, will be hosting a gambling show on WFAN on Saturday, he announced on Thursday. The radio station is calling it “a resp.
John Gambling Radio Show
According to columnist and fan James Brady, John’s “incorrigible optimism” is his on-air trademark and unofficial motto. Sportscaster Don Criqui has observed “what you hear on the air is what he is off the air—I’ve never seen him have a bad day.” It is known that John A. Gambling was always genuinely fond of the competition—another part of what made him the outstanding broadcaster he was and is.
When John A. retired in 1991, his son, John R. Gambling, continued as host of the morning show on WOR/New York until September 2000. Three generations on the radio... “radio’s oldest dynasty” they’ve been called. Quite a legacy.
John A. Gambling died on January 8, 2004 of heart failure.
John B. Gambling Radio Show
He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2000.