Leonard lopate biography

American radio host (born 1940)

Leonard Lopate (born September 23, 1940) is an American radio personality. He is the host of the radio talk show Leonard Lopate at Large, broadcast on WBAI, and the former host of the public radiotalk showThe Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC.^[2] He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, and then later on WBAI, before moving to WNYC.

Career

Lopate came to radio relatively late in life. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Williamsburg, he attended Brooklyn College and later Hunter College, where he trained as a painter (he studied with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko), and worked in advertising for fifteen years.^[3] He was given the chance to host his first talk show on WBAI in 1977; what began as a whim became his life's work.

Lopate's longest-running program on WBAI was Round Midnight, a weekly late-night show, which featured intervi