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Howie Carr (born 1952) is an American broadcaster and journalist, and the number one drive-time talk-radio host in the greater Boston area and New England.
Carr is a native of Portland, Maine, a graduate of Deerfield Academy and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He now lives in Wellesley, and is married, with five daughters.
Aside from broadcasting, he is an award-winning front-page columnist for the Boston Herald. Known for his scathing exposes of local politicians, he has raised lots of eyebrows and voices over the years. He's famous for pushing the envelope and not regretting that he went too far. His opinion is valued by the many television stations on which he's regularly featured. The day after President Clinton testified, C-SPAN broadcast Howie's entire show.
As well as being heard on WRKO AM 680 he is syndicated across the country, and streamed on-line through his website. He's interviewed numerous politicians, authors, and celebrities. He has worked as a reporter and commentator for Channels 2 and 56. In 1980–81, Carr was the Boston City Hall bureau chief of the Boston Herald American, and he later worked as the paper's State House bureau chief. As a political reporter for WNEV, Channel 7, his coverage of then mayor, Kevin White, was so relentless that after the mayor announced he wasn't running again, he told the Boston Sunday Globe that one of the things he enjoyed most about his impending retirement was not having Carr chase him around the city.
In 1985, he won the National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, for Essays and Criticism. In television, he has been nominated for an Emmy Award.
In 1998 Carr stared as himself in the John Travolta film A Civil Action.
The Howie Carr Show
Listeners can call Howie Carr's "chump line" and leave an amusing message which might be played in the third hour of the show each week day . The show also features other contests, like the "Celebrity Death Pool" or the "Wizard of Uhz." In the latter, Carr plays a clip of the Senior Senator from Massachusetts, Edward M. Kennedy, and the listeners have to guess how many "uh"s the Senator says.
Carr likes to follow the career of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger; he even has a section of his website called "Whitey Watch." He is currently in the process of writing a non-fiction book on the Bulger family and their impact on Massachusetts.