Longtime Philadelphia radio talk show personality Irv Homer has died. Homer collapsed on stage Wednesday evening after delivering opening remarks before several hundred people at a program at Eastern University. He was rushed to Bryn Mawr Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was 85.
Sources say that he suffered a massive heart attack. KYW-AM reporter Dave Madden had worked with Homer at WWDB-FM and says Homer became a broadcasting legend in the Philadelphia area. Homer started out as a bartender and got his first job on WEEZ-AM in Chester. His last talk show on WBCB was Wednesday.
Irv Homer told it like it is (or was) and we loved hearing him and his no-nonsense views. He will be missed but his spirit will carry on.
