It was the home of talkmaster David Brudnoy for 18 years, until the day before his death in 2004.

On September 28 the station became an all-news station from 5 a. m .– 7 p. m. following the end of the two midday talk shows hosted by Tom Bergeron, the morning host prior to the launch of the morning news block ( the noon hour, which separated the Bergeron shifts, was already occupied by a news program ); the station's nighttime programming continued to be filled by David Brudnoy and Bob Raleigh's talk shows.

Shortly afterward, David Brudnoy gave up the 10 p. m .- 12 a. m. portion of his show ; this timeslot was given to Lowell Sun columnist and former WLLH ( 1400 AM ) host Paul Sullivan.

David Brudnoy ( June 5, 1940 – December 9, 2004 ) was an American talk radio host in Boston from 1976 to 2004.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, to a Jewish family, David Barry Brudnoy was the only child of Doris and Harry Brudnoy.

As a professor, Brudnoy taught classes or was a guest lecturer at many major colleges and universities throughout Boston and New England, as well as in Texas: Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, Merrimack College, University of Rhode Island, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, as well as Texas Southern University.

At the end of his career, Brudnoy was, according to WBZ Radio's promotional materials, derived from Arbitron ratings, among the most-listened-to evening talk hosts in the United States.

His popularity in Boston was so great that when he returned to the air in early January 1995, after his first battle with HIV / AIDS kept him off the air for ten weeks, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino formally declared January 5 as " David Brudnoy Day.

" He couldn't care less about your party label, as long as you knew what you were talking about, because he always did "; and conservatives like then-Governor Mitt Romney who said that Brudnoy was "... a friend to hundreds of thousands of people, most of whom he never even saw in person.

Although his father Harry was a practicing Jew and a member of a Minneapolis synagogue, David Brudnoy was an agnostic who disliked organized religion and was critical of religions that tried to impose their views on others.

Brudnoy came to realize that he was homosexual early in life but successfully hid the fact for many years.

Brudnoy did not come out to his father and stepmother until his illness in 1994 ; his father Harry was 88 years old when Brudnoy finally phoned him to give him the news and also discuss the health crisis he was undergoing.

Brudnoy did not attempt to mask his sexuality during his adult life, but also made no direct indications of it ; it was well-known among his colleagues in broadcasting long before he spoke publicly about it.

When Brudnoy died, it was Cromer who became executor of his estate.

Brudnoy was diagnosed with HIV / AIDS in 1988, but kept his treatment a secret until his condition became serious after contracting pneumonia in 1994.

Once he was able to return to the air, Brudnoy announced the creation of a fund to fight AIDS.

A public memorial was held for Brudnoy on February 27, 2005, at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston, arranged by his WBZ colleagues and Emerson College ( which had previously awarded him an honorary doctorate ).

* 5 June: David Brudnoy ( died 2004 ), popular talk radio host in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 to 2004.

During their talk radio days, programs hosted by Larry Glick ( who moved from WBZ in 1987 ), Avi Nelson, David Brudnoy ( who would later go to WRKO, and finally, to WBZ ), among others, were featured.

After his bout with AIDS, Brudnoy began broadcasting from his apartment four nights out of five, welcoming his radio guests into his home and eagerly offering them cocktails.

Brudnoy came out publicly in 1994, after returning from hospitalization to overcome his long-hidden fight with AIDS.

The following year, David Brudnoy began to host the station's late evening talk show ; WBZ replaced his program with Tom Snyder's ABC Radio talk show after the July 13, 1990 broadcast, but listener complaints led the station to return Brudnoy to the air by the end of September.

Years later, David Brudnoy would become known for his work as a film critic, and he remarked in his autobiography that his aunt had undoubtedly contributed to his success by taking him to so many films.

While at Texas Southern, he " adopted " a young, recently-single mother, Patricia Kennedy, and for many years Brudnoy and Kennedy enjoyed a relationship of mutual convenience, with Brudnoy able to use Kennedy as a cover for his homosexuality, and in return serving as a surrogate father to her two young children.

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David Brudnoy announced on September 23, 2003 that he had skin cancer ( he had also been fighting AIDS since 1994 ); a farewell broadcast aired on December 8, 2004, and he died the next day, with tribute shows airing over the following two nights.

Brudnoy began a career in broadcast commentary in 1971 on Boston's local PBS television station, WGBH-TV.

In 1976, David Brudnoy took over as host of his friend Avi Nelson's radio show on WHDH, in the midst of the city's unrest over forced busing and desegregation in schools.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

She was awarded the Professional Handlers' Ass'ns' Leonard Brumby, Sr. Memorial Trophy ( named for the founder-originator of the Junior Classes.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Five years later, he was awarded the university's degree in law.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature " for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times ".< ref >

In 1970, he tied for fourth place at an international tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, and was awarded the grandmaster title.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill.

In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

* Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.