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 most ...
, 860 kHz AM, in
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
, featuring
klezmer
Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער 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 l ...
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 domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer. While some elements of Jewish music may originat ...
. 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 Equity Communications (the station was at one time owned by entertainer Merv Griffin). WMID also carries the Phil ...
in Atlantic City.
In 1965, he began his Jewish music radio program on
WTEL in Philadelphia. The program soon moved to
WQAL-FM, 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
American radio personalities
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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