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This collection of anecdotes from Ernie Kovacs' WABC Radio Days was gotten the same way that I get most tidbits about Ernie. As you saw if you've read my interview with Kovacs cameraman Bob Kemp, it seems that I always run into nice folks who know someone who knew or worked with Ernie. This in turn gives me great interviews, stories, etc. to pass onto the fans. (If you haven't read my interview with Bob Kemp you can link to it by clicking under SITE MAP). A fellow comedian named Rob Blatt (a very talented man in his own right who I've had the pleasure to perform sketch and improv with) knows I'm a Kovacs fan. He works with Ed Silverman, who was the overnight news editor and news announcer during Ernie's tenure at WABC radio in New York City. Rob got Ed and I together via email. Thanks Rob! I contacted Ed and said I would like to email him some interview questions. Well, much to my surprise and pleasure he went out of his way to email me some great anecdotes about his days around Ernie Kovacs, making my job all the more easy. I have posted these stories below, verbatim except for format corrections, and I sincerely hope you will enjoy them. Thanks Ed! I want to give a quick background for those who might not be familiar with Ernie Kovacs as a radio personality. It is interesting to note that as a young man in the mid-to-late 1940's Ernie was first an actor, then a well known radio personality on WTTM out of Trenton, New Jersey (which became an NBC affiliate while Ernie was there), this leading to him being a humor columnist with "The Trentonian," AND THEN got his first television job at WPTZ, a Philco-Westinghouse NBC Affiliate out of nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So, Ernie had an extensive background in radio when he got his WABC show in the 1950's at the height of his fame. He was a great and innovative radio personality at WTTM, probably the Howard Stern of his time, someone who was easily identifiable and had his own set of stunts and gags, though he obviously could not do the material that shock jocks do now. He learned every aspect of radio from the ground up, which is what you had to do back then, not like today when they hire no talent robots and have a computer run the shows. CLICK HERE FOR P.2 OF "ABC RADIO ANNOUNCER ED SILVERMAN TALKS ABOUT ERNIE KOVACS" |