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Bernard Meltzer Radio personality

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: May 2, 1916
  • Died: Mar 25, 1998

Bernard C. Meltzer was a United States radio host for several decades. His advice call-in show, "What's Your Problem?," aired from 1967 until the mid-1990s on stations WCAU-AM and WPEN-AM in Philadelphia, WOR-AM and WEVD-AM in New York and in national syndication on NBC Talknet.

A city planner by training, with a civil engineering degree from City College of New York and a master's degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Meltzer moved from a career as a Philadelphia expert in urban problems to a radio host on WCAU. In 1973 Meltzer's show moved to WOR in New York.

Meltzer's show provided counsel on a wide range of quandaries, ranging from financial to personal: callers were as likely to ask about family crises, parenting issues and romantic problems as they were to ask about plumbing, home improvement or investment problems. Segments were often bracketed by Meltzer delivering aphorisms or reciting moralizing poetry in his distinctive smooth, soothing, quiet voice. His show at one time held the highest ratings among adults in his time slot.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. being good

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. happiness

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. love

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. change, forgiveness & the future

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. God

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. happiness & success

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