Mike Eisgrau - WNEW

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Mike Eisgrau is a veteran professional journalist and public relations specialist based in Manhattan and Sarasota, Florida. He spent 24 years on the air in New York as reporter, editor and News Director for the famous WNEW Radio News.
His background includes being editor for Fox Television (WNYW-TV) and UPN (WWOR-TV) in New York. For 14 years he was a New York-based correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. And for 12 years was Director of Public Affairs for New York's giant Javits Convention Center.

This interview was done relatively early in Eisgrau's career at WNEW, one of the nation's premier local broadcast newsrooms of the 60's, 70's and 80's. He covered major local and national stories, including funerals of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Democratic and Republican conventions; state gubernatorial and presidential candidates on the campaign trail; 6 New York Mayors; 5 New York Governors; overseas assignments in Europe and the Middle East; and the 1969 Woodstock music festival.

WNYC archives id: 46208