Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.

They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

It became a hobby of mine.