Harry Harrison (radio)
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Harry Harrison is a popular New York radio personality.
Harrison listened to a lot of radio while confined to bed for rheumatic fever for a year, and started broadcasting at the age of 14 in his hometown of Chicago at educational station WBEZ. He moved to Chicago's WCFL as a summer replacement and remained there eight months.
Harrison next became program director at WPEO in Peoria, Illinois, and hosted their morning show. WPEO became the top-rated station in six months, and Harry, well known in the Midwest, was recruited by New York City's WMCA.
In 1959 Harrison joined WMCA as mid-day personality with great success for about eight years. He was one of the original WMCA "Good Guys." WABC hired him in 1968 to replace Herb Oscar Anderson as their morning drive air personality. He stayed at WABC until it hit troubled times in 1979. In 1980, he became the morning personality at Oldies station WCBS-FM. He retired from full time broadcasting in 2003 but began to do a weekend show on WCBS-FM in 2004. On June 3, 2005, at 5:00 PM, WCBS-FM ended its "oldies" format to go to the Jack FM format, ending his stay at the station.