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Alan S. Burke (September 15, 1922 – August 25, 1992) was an American
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television and radio talk show host who was on the air primarily in
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from 1966 to 1969 on WNEW-TV.


Life

He was born in
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, in 1922. He graduated from the
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. He became a sportscaster at a radio station in
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. He married Claire Canniff and they had two sons, David Jonathan Burke and Morris Daniel Burke. His television show was on the local
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channel 5 at station WNEW from 1966 to 1969 as '' The Alan Burke Show'' and was syndicated nationally. After his show was cancelled he moved to
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, where he continued to work in broadcasting. He died on August 25, 1992, in
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.


Work

Burke was a pioneer of the confrontational style where he would attack or insult his guest and plant ringers in the audience who would attack the guest. Burke had programs on various
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radio stations during much of the 1970s and 1980s, where he continued to employ his confrontational style. Burke's best known caller was known only as "Raymond", a presumed burn-out who spouted comically clever poetry, often espousing the virtues of his hero, Alan Burke. Burke was sufficiently well known in the late 1980s to get a guest spot on '' The Morton Downey Jr. Show'', where he, Downey, Tom Leykis, Lester Kinsolving and Bob Grant traded barbs. On June 25, 1994, Howard Stern reflected upon how he and a friend watched Alan Burke, "the guy who yelled at people."


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burke, Alan 1922 births 1992 deaths American conservative talk radio hosts American talk radio hosts American television talk show hosts University of Richmond alumni