Leonard Lopate
Leonard Lopate (September 23, 1940 – August 5, 2025) was an American talk show host. He was the 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.
Leonard Lopate | |
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 Lopate in 2008 | |
| Born | September 23, 1940[1] |
| Died | August 5, 2025 (aged 84) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Career | |
| Show | The Leonard Lopate Show |
| Station(s) | WNYC |
| Style | Talk show host |
| Country | United States |
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]
Lopate died on August 5, 2025 from problems caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at his home in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 84.[4]
Leonard Lopate Media
Gore Vidal with Lopate in 2009
References
- ↑ "U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2". Ancestry.com. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2010.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ↑ "WNYC - Lopate - Staff Bios". WNYC. Archived from the original on 2006-04-30. Retrieved 2006-04-07.
- ↑ "New York Public Radio Fires Hosts Lopate and Schwartz". WNYC. https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-public-radio-fires-hosts-lopate-schwartz. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
- ↑ Haberman, Clyde (2025-08-06). "Leonard Lopate, Longtime New York Radio Host, Dies at 84". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/media/leonard-lopate-dead.html. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
Other websites
Media related to Leonard Lopate at Wikimedia Commons
- Access to recent Lopate shows Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Renowned Radio Host Recounts Career Highlights
- Leonard Lopate in conversation with the Brooklyn Rail
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