Jay Diamond is an American talk radio

Talk radio

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 host from the Manhattan Beach

Manhattan Beach

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 neighborhood of Brooklyn

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 who began his move to the mic by being a frequent caller to other radio programs, especially New York City

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's popular Bob Grant

Bob Grant (radio)

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 show. Initially conservative, Diamond's politics began shifting leftward sometime in the late 1990s as he became dissatisfied with the pro-big business, pro-wealthy corporate conservatism of the 1990s and 2000s.

His last scheduled broadcast was in Boston, Massachusetts his Jay Diamond Show appearing on WRKO

WRKO

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 until 2005.