David Blaustein
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David Blaustein is an entertainment correspondent and movie critic for ABC News Radio
and a frequent contributor to ABC News Now
.
Blaustein attended Buffalo State College
at which time he landed his first professional radio job with WWKB
-AM as a board operator and talk radio producer. While at WWKB-AM, he was offered his first professional on-air gig as a lifestyles reporter for WWKB's sister station, WKSE
-FM (KISS 98.5). Blaustein continued to attend college full-time, work at both radio stations and create and co-host a popular talk show on the campus radio
station, WBNY-FM, called "Misinformation." Mr. Blaustein's co-host was novelist Micah Nathan
, author of Simon and Schuster's Gods of Aberdeen.
Blaustein once served as a radio Producer for Alan Colmes
of the Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, and nationally syndicated radio personality Barry Farber
.
Blaustein has conducted countless celebrity interviews, broken several major entertainment stories, covered the red carpet at the Oscars and has written and produced nearly 20 one-hour entertainment related radio specials.
On August 14, 2008 an interview Blaustein conducted with actor Ernest Borgnine was quoted in the Page Six column of the New York Post
.
Blaustein's work can be heard on ABC News Radio affiliates around the United States.
ABC News Radio
ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC News, a division of the ABC Television Network. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Cumulus Media Networks, newscasts on the hour to its more than 2,000 affiliates...
and a frequent contributor to ABC News Now
ABC News Now
ABC News Now is an American 24-hour news channel offered via digital television, broadband and streaming video at ABCNews.com and on mobile phones. It delivers breaking news, headline news each half hour, and wide range of entertainment and lifestyle programs. The channel is currently available in...
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Blaustein attended Buffalo State College
Buffalo State College
The State University of New York College at Buffalo, referred to as Buffalo State College, often referred to colloquially as Buff State, is a public, liberal arts college in Buffalo, New York, United States and is part of the State University of New York. Buffalo State was founded in 1871 as the...
at which time he landed his first professional radio job with WWKB
WWKB
WWKB is an AM radio station in Buffalo, New York that operates on a frequency of 1520 kHz. It is owned and operated by Entercom Communications. The station carries a progressive talk radio format. Declaring itself as A New Voice, A New Choice, The Voice of the New Majority; WWKB carries a number...
-AM as a board operator and talk radio producer. While at WWKB-AM, he was offered his first professional on-air gig as a lifestyles reporter for WWKB's sister station, WKSE
WKSE
WKSE is a Contemporary Hit Radio/Top 40 Mainstream station serving the Buffalo and Niagara Falls region of Western New York. The station's transmitter is located on Grand Island, New York...
-FM (KISS 98.5). Blaustein continued to attend college full-time, work at both radio stations and create and co-host a popular talk show on the campus radio
Campus radio
Campus radio is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively by students, or may include programmers from the wider community in which the radio station is based...
station, WBNY-FM, called "Misinformation." Mr. Blaustein's co-host was novelist Micah Nathan
Micah Nathan
Micah Nathan is an American author, screenwriter, and award-winning essayist. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Gods of Aberdeen, was published in June 2005 by Simon & Schuster and became an international bestseller...
, author of Simon and Schuster's Gods of Aberdeen.
Blaustein once served as a radio Producer for Alan Colmes
Alan Colmes
Alan Samuel Colmes is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk...
of the Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, and nationally syndicated radio personality Barry Farber
Barry Farber
Barry M. Farber is an American conservative radio talk show host, author and language-learning enthusiast. In 2002, industry publication Talkers magazine ranked him the 9th greatest radio talk show host of all time. He has also written articles appearing in the New York Times, Reader's Digest,...
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Blaustein has conducted countless celebrity interviews, broken several major entertainment stories, covered the red carpet at the Oscars and has written and produced nearly 20 one-hour entertainment related radio specials.
On August 14, 2008 an interview Blaustein conducted with actor Ernest Borgnine was quoted in the Page Six column of the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
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Blaustein's work can be heard on ABC News Radio affiliates around the United States.