Sandy Kozel

WILM (AM) in Wilmington, where Joe Pyne debuted as a talk show host
in 1950. It is believed to be the nations first "Call-In" talk show.
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     Joe Pyne (December 22, 1924 – March 23, 1970)

Pyne was a radio and television talk show host, who pioneered
the confrontational style in which the host advocates a viewpoint 
and argues with guests and audience members. He was a major 
influence on other talk show hosts such as Bill O’Reilly, Rush
Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Morton Downey, Jr, and Michael Savage.  

Payne enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and saw combat
in the South Pacific, where he earned three battle stars. In 1943,
during a Japanese bombing attack, he was wounded in the left leg.

 
  Larry Lujack (June 6, 1940 – December 18, 2013)

The Top 40 radio legend died December 18 at a New Mexico 
hospice after a year long struggle with esophageal cancer.

Lucille Ball and Richard Denning

“My Favorite Husband”, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning, was the initial
basis for what would become the most beloved groundbreaking TV sitcom of all
time, I Love Lucy. The CBS program aired 124 episodes from July 23, 1948,
through March 31, 1951. The series was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs.
Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945)
written by Isabel Scott Rorick. The main sponsor was General Foods‘ Jell-O.