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4 unusual facts about Mark Simone


Joe Crummey

Geraldo Rivera took over Crummey's 10 a.m. slot effective January 3, 2012, with regular WABC fill-in hosts Bernard McGuirk and Mark Simone substituting in the interim.

Mark Simone

1982–1992 — WNEW Simone hosted the afternoon show from 3-7 p.m., featuring a mix of celebrity interviews and standards music.

1980–1982 — WMCA Simone hosted a daily comedy talk show from 8-10 p.m. weekdays and 2-4 p.m. on Saturdays.

Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

(During a February 2, 2008 New York radio interview with Mark Simone on WABC's Saturday Night Oldies show, Shirley Jones, who played mother Shirley Partridge on the live-action series, apparently was never even told of the show's existence and had no recollection of any animated version of the series ever being produced.)


Leo Steiner

Mark Simone, a radio personality at WNEW-FM reminisced that "The Carnegie used to be a party every afternoon, and the reason was Leo Steiner... You could go there any afternoon and sit with celebrities. Now it's just not happening. And a lot of those people are coming to the Stage".


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