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((Short description|American radio personality (1916-1996)))
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'''Barry Gray''' (born '''Bernard Yaroslaw''',<ref name="ppg">((cite news |last1=Ravo |first1=Nick |title=Creator of radio talk show format |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38526207/barry_gray/ |accessdate=November 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=The New York Times |date=December 24, 1996 |location=Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh |page=17|via = [[Newspapers.com]]))</ref> July 2, 1916 – December 21, 1996) was an American [[radio personality]]. He is frequently referred to as "The Father of Talk Radio" for his significant contributions to the radio industry.

==Early New York career==
Barry Gray initially worked as a [[disc jockey]] (a role he portrayed in the 1949 [[short subject]] ''Spin That Splatter''), and worked for radio station [[WOR (AM)|WOR]] in 1945 when [[big band]] leader [[Woody Herman]] called in while Gray was talking about him. Gray broadcast the call,<ref name="it">((cite book |last1=Halper |first1=Donna L. |title=Icons of Talk: The Media Mouths That Changed America: The Media Mouths That Changed America |date=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313343827 |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pFxDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Barry+Gray%22+radio&pg=PA140 |accessdate=November 6, 2019 |language=en))</ref> and the spontaneous live interview was such a hit with both his listeners and station bosses that the [[talk radio]] [[radio format|format]] resulted. Gray subsequently began doing listener call-ins as well.

WOR officials realized the attraction of the talk format, and Gray worked an overnight shift there from 1945 to 1948 or 1949,<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.billdulmage.com/skeds/others/wor.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040518043422/http://www.billdulmage.com/skeds/others/wor.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 18, 2004|title=WOR New York|date=May 18, 2004))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Barry+Gray+Show |title=Copyright 2016, J. David Goldin |website=Radiogoldindex.com |date= |accessdate=December 3, 2016))</ref> interviewing publc figures from [[Al Jolson]] to [[Adam Clayton Powell Jr.]]<ref>((cite web |url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sherwoodtimes/jolstory.html |title=The Jolson Story |website=Myweb.tiscali.co.uk |date= |accessdate=December 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723084707/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sherwoodtimes/jolstory.html |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |url-status=dead ))</ref> He also broadcast for [[WEPN (AM)|WMGM]] from the [[Copacabana (nightclub)|Copacabana]] night club in the late 1940s.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.brieaustin.com/journalism/thegreat.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041231234656/http://www.brieaustin.com/journalism/thegreat.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 31, 2004|title=Brie Austin|date=December 31, 2004))</ref>  In addition, during 1947 he hosted the New York-based show ''Scout About Town''. The August 5, 1947, episode of ''Scout About Town'' included the radio network debut of [[Martin and Lewis]].<ref name="sbs">((cite book |last1=Hayde |first1=Michael J. |title=Side By Side: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis On TV and Radio |publisher=BearManor Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8b1mDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Barry+Gray%22+radio&pg=PT25 |accessdate=November 6, 2019 |language=en))</ref>

Gray was a pioneer in early television broadcasts, first as the host of ''The Barry Gray Show'' on New York's [[WWOR-TV|WOR-TV]] when Channel 9 went on the air in 1949, then more visibly as host of the first [[Mark Goodson|Goodson]] and [[Bill Todman|Todman]] game show ''[[Winner Take All (game show)|Winner Take All]]'', replacing [[Bud Collyer]] in 1951.

==Miami radio and nightclubs==
Gray broadcast on WMIE-AM radio from three [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]] nightclubs (the Copa Lounge, Danny and Doc's Jewel Box and the Martha Raye Club) nightly during the fall of 1948 and into 1949 before he left the Miami area due to an incident in which Gray bopped an audience member with his microphone while he was on the air. The impact of the hit was audible and had been preceded by hot words of anger. This recollection comes from Ernest W. Bennett of Miami fifty-eight years later who listened to Gray's broadcast every weeknight beginning in Bennett's sophomore year at the [[University of Miami]] in the fall of 1948. Carl Warner, a retired newspaper publisher living in [[Clinton, Tennessee]], was then the remote engineer for the Barry Gray Miami Beach broadcasts. He also recalls hearing a loud bang in his headphones and looking up to the Copa Lounge stage seeing the podium turned over and Barry signaling him to cut the mics. After about 30 seconds of dead air, he asked for his mike to be turned on.

Bennett recalls other reports of Gray's other pugnacious altercations. This final audible one was what impelled Gray's departure. Gray said himself, as Bennett recalls the exciting live-broadcast event, "I just hit the guy over the head with my microphone, folks." The alleged victim was [[Reubin Clein]], publisher of ''Miami Life''. [[Reubin Clein]] was considered an agitator and generally an aggressive character who was a former boxer.

According to Bennett, Gray was popular on Miami radio:
"He was very big here; number one, like [[Larry King]] is known today. Indeed, Larry King began his broadcasting career from a houseboat anchored in front of the Miami Beach Fontainebleau Hotel in 1957."

==Return and long career in New York radio==
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Gray was also known as a fierce critic of bigotry, having lived through [[McCarthyism]] and the [[Second Red Scare|Red Scare]]. A constant target of the blacklisting right-wing columnist [[Walter Winchell]], who called him "Borey Pink" and "a disk jerk" in the 1950s,<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,817546,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050505144022/http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,817546,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 5, 2005 |title=The Press: Feud Days |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=December 8, 1952 |accessdate=December 3, 2016))</ref> Gray consistently called out those he found mired in hypocrisy and abusive in power. The Winchell feud seemed to haunt him, however; years after Winchell had lost influence, Gray still talked darkly on air about plots and physical attacks Winchell had orchestrated against him. Indeed, a 1995 biography of Winchell reported that he kept a photograph of a bloodied Gray on his walls.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.bachorgan.com/wardmorehouseiii/Prologue.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928032134/http://www.bachorgan.com/wardmorehouseiii/Prologue.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |title=Life at the Top : New York's Grand Hotels |accessdate=December 3, 2016))</ref>

== Personal life ==
Gray married Beth Serrao on 14 February, 1946. The couple had two children. They divorced in 1973. Gray married Judith Margot Morris on 24 September, 1973; the marriage ended in divorce.((Citation needed |date=October 2023)) He was married to his third wife, Nancy Kellogg,<ref name="ppg" /> from 5 September 1986((Citation needed |date=October 2023))  until his death.<ref name="ppg" /> They had one child.((Citation needed |date=October 2023))

==Awards==
In 2002, industry publication ''[[Talkers Magazine]]'' selected Barry Gray as the eighth greatest radio talk show host of all time.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.talkers.com/greatest/ |title=The 25 Greatest Radio and Television Talk Show Hosts of All Time |website=[[Talkers Magazine]] |date=September 2002 |accessdate=December 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108025929/http://talkers.com/greatest/ |archive-date=November 8, 2016))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.talkers.com/greatest/8rgray.htm "Barry Gray"]. biography at ''Talkers Magazine''.
* ((IMDb name|0336464))
* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E5D61331F930A15751C1A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print "Barry Gray, Pioneer of Talk Radio, Dies at 80"]. ''The New York Times''.
* Feuerherd, Peter (c. 1997). [https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gray-barry "Gray, Barry"] biography at [[Encyclopedia.com]].

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