Barry Reisman is the host of ''The Barry Reisman Show'', currently an hour-long, Monday-Friday radio program playing on

WWDB WWDB (860 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its studios and offices in the "555 Building" on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and broadcasts ...

, 860 kHz AM, in

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, featuring

klezmer Klezmer ( or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these wou ...

and other

Jewish music Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer. While some elements of Jewish music may origina ...

. His Jewish music radio program has been running almost continually on various radio stations in the Philadelphia area since 1965. Reisman started his radio career in 1962 at WRNJ-FM in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He switched to WSLT in Ocean City, NJ, and then to

WMID WMID (1340 kHz) is a radio station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, which plays "the classic oldies". Its parent company is The Jersey Giant WMID, LLC. Its studios are located in Ocean City, and its transmitter is located on Murray Avenue ...

in Atlantic City. In 1965, he began his Jewish music radio program on WTEL in Philadelphia. The program soon moved to

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, and in 1969 it moved again, to WIBF-FM. The show stayed at WIBF for 23 years until 1992 when it moved to WSSJ-AM in Camden, NJ. In 1998, the program moved to WNWR-AM in Philadelphia. In 2011 it moved back to its original station, now known as WWDB. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphi

inducted Reisman into their Hall of Fame in 2011.

External links

Biography at WWDBAM.com

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