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Howie Carr is an American broadcaster and journalist.
He is a native of Portland, Maine, a graduate of Deerfield Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He is the number one drive time talk radio host in the greater Boston area and New England.
When he turns the microphone off, 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 TV stations he's regularly featured on: NBC Today; MSNBC; C-SPAN; Court TV; Geraldo; CNN; Larry King Live; The Fox News Network; CBS This Morning. The day after President Clinton testified, C-SPAN broadcast Howie's entire show. The nation tunes in to Howie Carr.
Besides being heard on WRKO AM 680 he is syndicated across the country, and streamed online through his website. He's interviewed numerous politicians, authors, and celebrities, and he's not afraid to ask those "no comment" questions.
He has worked as a reporter/commentator for Channels 2 and 56. In 1980-81, Carr was 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 movie A Civil Action.
Carr, 53, lives in Wellesley. He is married and has five daughters.
Howie Carr's show, "The Howie Carr Show," orginates from the WRKO Andy Moses Memorial studio, thrid floor of the New Balance Building (Brighton Landing) overlooking the Mass Pike in Brighton Massachusetts. The show features a whole slew of interesting and funny aspects, including producer Nancy "Sandy" Shack, and boardman "Tattoo." Listeners can call Howie Carr's "chump line" (617-779-3469) and leave an amusing/funny message which they may play on the show each weekday in the third hour. Every Friday Howie Talks to FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace, and on Monday's he talks TV with Max Robins from "Broadcasting and Cable" magazine. The show also features other contests, like the "Celebrity Death Pool" or the "Wizard of Uhz." The Wizard of Uhz is where Howie 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 loves to rag on politicians on both sides of the asile whom he thinks are taking the taxpayer for granted.
External link
His website is http://www.howiecarr.com or http://www.wrko.com
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