Lynn Cullen (born Ida Lynn Miller, January 18, 1948)"Jewish Rite to Honor Miss Ida Lynn Miller"
''Green Bay Press-Gazette''. January 19, 1961. p. 11. Retrieved November 15, 2022. is an American

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radio talk show Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often featur ...

host in

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Career

Cullen hosts an internet radio talk show on the

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's website on weekdays from 10 - 11 am. She was also a regular panelist on

WQED (TV) WQED (channel 13) is a PBS member television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by WQED Multimedia, it is sister to public radio station WQED-FM (89.3). The two outlets share studios on Fifth Avenue near the Carnegie M ...

's Friday evening program, 4802. until leaving the show in 2015. Prior to this, Cullen was briefly on radio station WAMO-AM 860 weekdays from 5-7 p.m. EST. As of May 15, 2009, WAMO and several sister stations are in the process of being sold, and Cullen and all other employees were abruptly laid off. On July 7, 2009, it was announced that she will broadcast a one-hour Internet radio show on the

's website starting on August 18, 2009 From 1999 until a format change in August 2008, Cullen was a radio talk show host on radio station WPTT AM 1360. Cullen's reporting for

WTAE-TV WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed o ...

from 1981 to 1992 garnered her numerous awards, including a 1991 Emmy award, four Golden Quills for Journalistic Excellence from the Pittsburgh Press Club, and three Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcaster Awards for feature reporting. O'Connor, Bob; Cohen, Dan (May 12, 1998)
"Resolution No. 274"
''Pittsburgh Municipal Record, 1998, Vol. B''. City of Pittsburgh. p. 229. Retrieved November 15, 2022. Cullen hosted a radio talk show on WTAE Radio from 1987 to 1997 and was twice named "Best Talk Show Host" in Pittsburgh by the readers of both

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and In Pittsburgh Newsweekly. Vectors Pittsburgh honored her as the 1997 Person of the Year in Communications, and the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition similarly honored her as its Person of the Year in 1998. Cullen also hosted two weekly public television programs: the statewide award-winning quiz show ''The Pennsylvania Game'' and the prime-time public affairs program ''Cullen-Devlin'' on WQEX-TV.Lawler, Sylvia (September 1, 1993)
"Cullen brings new spirit to 'The Pennsylvania Game'"
''Indiana Gazette''. p. 22. Retrieved November 15, 2022. The ''

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descended from the ''Pittsburgh Gazette'', established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Alle ...

'' named Cullen one of Pittsburgh's fifty most influential cultural power brokers.Moe, Doug (December 27, 2006)
"Talk Show's 'Our Marine' Dies"
''The Capital Times''. p. A2. Retrieved November 15, 2022. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Media. Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1981, Cullen was a television anchor and reporter at

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, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. She attended

Green Bay East High School Green Bay East High School is a public high school in the Green Bay Area Public School District serving the near-east side of Green Bay, Wisconsin and parts of Bellevue and Allouez. Founded in 1856, the school has occupied its current building ...

,"Wedding Plans Told: Miller-Cullen"
''Green Bay Press-Gazette''. April 13, 1972. p. 6. Retrieved November 15, 2022. the

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School of the Theatre in New York City,

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and the

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where she received her degree in journalism.

Personal life

Cullen is the sister of author and

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professor

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. She acquired her professional surname via marriage to William Lee Cullen on June 4, 1972. By the time the couple divorced on November 10, 1980, she was already well established as Lynn Cullen, news anchor and talk show host."Lynn Cullen to Leave"
''Wisconsin State Journal''. November 1, 1980. p. 23. Retrieved November 15, 1980.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, Lynn 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews American game show hosts American talk radio hosts American women radio hosts Radio personalities from Pittsburgh 1948 births Living people Green Bay East High School alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication alumni

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