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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Big ups for Howard Eskin

WIP afternoon talker Howard Eskin will be the man of the hour on Nov. 6 as he gets a lifetime achievement award at the 15th annual Philadelphia Achievement In Radio (AIR) Awards, which are the local radio version of the Emmys. (Unlike the local Emmys, though, all the stations participate.) 

Eskin, 57, started in sports talk in 1979 and logged his 5,000th sports-talk show a year ago. He went to TV with KYW in 1982. In 1986, the year he joined WIP, he started a five-year association with Fox29, launching its 10 o'clock news. From 1992 to 1996, he was back at KYW. In 1996, he started at NBC10, where he's since contributed to "Sports Final," except for a year in 2005-06.

  

The AIR Awards are a benefit for the March of Dimes. 

Previous AIR lifetime-achievement recipients:

1994: Hy Lit // 1995: Ken Garland // 1996: Dean Tyler //1997: Joe "Butterball" Tamburro // 1998: Richie Ashburn // 1999: Don Cannon // 2000: Gene Hart // 2001: Loraine Ballard-Morrill // 2002: Harry Kalas // 2003: Pierre Robert // 2004: Merrill Reese // 2005: Mary Mason // 2006: Sid Mark // 2007: John DeBella
Posted by Michael Klein @ 9:58 AM  Permalink | 7 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:40 AM, 09/29/2008
    Personally, I can't stand that know-it-all, loud-mouth, arrogant, narcissistic, blow-hard.
    — america
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:53 AM, 09/29/2008
    I thought this article was going to be about Eskin buying lifts.
    — Patrick M
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:16 AM, 09/30/2008
    I can't believe that dude is still on the air, he's got no personality let alone enough to be on the air and he can't engage people in conversation. Why do people in Philly tolerate listening to him? I could see him doing some reasonably interesting sports column writing somewhere but that's about it.
    — allrightknight
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:55 AM, 09/30/2008
    Was Andy Reed and Joe Banner on the voting committee?
    — cmellon0716
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:19 PM, 09/30/2008
    Arrogant, Eagle lover. Try 58 years old, thinks he's a ladies man, wears a beard to cover up pock-marked skin. Claims never had a bad day in his life, even if a loved one passed away. Narcissistic, conceited blowhard. Sent flowers via email to a stranger who ended up dead. Never made it out of Philly, stuck in the 7th market, knows little about sports outside of town, and yes, he is so short he wears lifts. A joke among the Philly pro teams, even Eagles players laugh at him behind his back. Could be the ugliest commentator on local TV. Is unknown outside of Philadelpha, thinks otherwise. A miserable self-hating man who denies his religion and works on High Holidays. L-O-S-E-R Eskin.
    — mas215
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:15 PM, 10/05/2008
    These are hardly "the local radio version of the Emmys"! (What - did you get that right off the press release?!!!) These are awards sponsored by a community based charity - the March of Dimes, and the winners are basically determined by how much financial support and/or air play the station gives to the charity. They are not judged by others in the business. The comparable award to the Emmy's for radio people come from The Radio Television News Director's Association.
    — beenthere
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:19 PM, 05/26/2010
    i cant believe this guy is getting any kind of award !!!! This man is a loud mouth and very disrespectful to other cites, like calling new yorkers a bunch of scumbags, this guy has a big mouth for such a small guy, and i guarantee he wouldnt say that while he is at any new york venue....he is disrespectful to woman also. He is a horrible sports analizer, he cant be non-bias , even if a new york team totally outplayed a philly team , he would still resort to insulting new york somehow. He gives philly a bad name and how he still has a job there is almost a crime. I listen to a lot of radio stations in new york also, and never here anything as foul or as disrespectful as what comes out of Eskins mouth. Please somebody listen to reason and get this guy removed from his w.i.p. position before he says something that will permanantly damage a great city with so much history as philadelphia. Thank You !!
    — ny4life


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