NEW YORK -- Pioneering radio and TV host Joe Franklin, who gave breaks to the likes of Al Pacino and Bill Cosby on his variety show long before they became famous and who boasted he never missed a ...

Joe Franklin had retired from his legendary low-fi talk show by the time I arrived in NYC in 1995, but I still remember watching reruns of it, somehow, on cable access. (Or maybe my roommate had old ...

NEW YORK - Pioneering radio and TV host Joe Franklin, who gave breaks to the likes of Al Pacino and Bill Cosby on his variety show long before they became famous and who boasted he never missed a ...

NEW YORK (AP) >> Pioneering radio and TV host Joe Franklin, who gave breaks to the likes of Al Pacino and Bill Cosby on his variety show long before they became famous and who boasted he never missed ...

Joe Franklin, the television host and talk-show pioneer, died this past weekend, at the age of eighty-eight. Franklin began hosting “The Joe Franklin Show” in 1951 and continued hosting it for more ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pioneering radio and TV host Joe Franklin, who gave breaks to the likes of Al Pacino and Bill Cosby on his variety show long before they became famous and who boasted he never missed a ...

Like the demolition of Ebbets Field or Penn Station, Joe Franklin’s death Saturday took a little piece of New York with it. Franklin, who was 88 and reportedly died of prostate cancer, wasn’t just a ...

Ladies and gentlemen, New York TV great Joe Franklin has signed off. Franklin, 88, who TV historians say was the first-ever talk show host, died Saturday night of natural causes, said Richie Ornstein, ...

Joe Franklin, who recently died at the age of 88, was a world-renowned TV personality and our dear friend for most of our lives. Joe called only a few days ago, and we reminisced about missing the ...

(Reuters) - TV talk show pioneer Joe Franklin, who interviewed thousands of people from a dancing dentist to Academy Award winning actors in a far from glamorous New York studio has died at the age of ...

Longtime radio and TV show host Joe Franklin died Saturday at the age of 88. Franklin died of cancer, according to his former producer, Steve Garrin, the Associated Press reported. Long before Jay ...