Joe Franklin, Local Talk Show Pioneer, Dies At 88

By JAMES BARRON, New York Times: Obituaries
Sat, 01/24/2015 - 9:24pm

Mr. Franklin, one of local television’s most enduring personalities, was on the air in New York from 1951 to 1993 as the host of a compellingly low-rent parade of has-beens and yet-to-bes.

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