Longtime radio legend and former New York City mayoral candidate Barry Farber has died.
Farber died at home Wednesday at the age of 90. He was known for his conservative views and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.
Farber spent six decades in the broadcasting business, according to the New York Daily News.
The radio host was a Baltimore native who made a home in New York after arriving in the 1950s. He worked as a radio producer before his show Barry Farber’s Open Mike debuted on WINS-AM in 1960. Farber later moved to WOR-AM as an overnight and evening host before launching a run for City Hall as a conservative opposing the ultimate winner, liberal Ed Koch.
Farber later returned to radio in the late 1970s and joined ABC Radio network in 1990. In 2008, Farber’s five-days-a-week show was spotlighted on CRN Digital Talk Radio and Talk Radio Network. His final appearance was last week.
His daughter, Celia Ingrid Farber, took to Twitter to express her condolences.
“My father Barry Farber, beloved, died this evening at 6:25 pm,” she tweeted on Wednesday. “He was home, in bed, and we were all with him. He turned 90 just yesterday. He told me recently that his concept of death was ‘going somewhere I’ve never been before, like Finland or Estonia.’ May God rest his soul.”
