Bruce Williams

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Bruce Williams

Bruce Williams is an American businessman and radio talk show host, who hosts The Bruce Williams Show on weekday evenings from 7 PM to 10 PM Eastern time. Williams has been doing his national radio show for more than 25 years, making it the longest running talk show in history.^[1]

Williams grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. After serving with the United States Air Force in Korea and earning a degree in education from Newark State Teachers College, now Kean University, he became active in politics, education, and business in New Jersey.

In 1975, Williams found another way to serve the public by hosting At Your Service on WCTC in New Brunswick, New Jersey^[2]. This was soon followed by his second show, Bruce Williams at Large. Williams then set his sights on reaching a larger audience, and his persistence paid off. In 1978, he was hired by WMCA in New York City. Three years later, he joined NBC Talknet, and his national reputation began to grow. Williams flew airplanes and in 1981, while attempting to abort a landing, crashed into a few trees. Four weeks after the crash, he broadcasted his show from a hospital bed, which was a first for radio. Bruce was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1999 and has since been listed as the sixth greatest talk show host in radio history by Talkers Magazine^[3] Williams ran an entirely business-related show until the September 11, 2001 attacks. Since then, the show has become a mix of business and politics, and every show ends with the song God Bless America.

Williams has authored several books, and he writes the Smart Money newspaper column, which appears in over 600 newspapers.

1 Business ventures
2 Books
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4 External links

[edit] Business ventures

Williams speaks frequently on the radio about the jobs he has held throughout the years. He began by melting down lead pipes into toy soldiers and selling them to other children at the age of 11 during World War II. Later in life, Williams entered a wide variety of business ventures including insurance sales, driving a beer truck, driving a taxi, real estate sales, a flower shop, a barber shop, and several nightclubs. He drove an ice cream truck in New York and was the founder of Lane Robbins, now Oak Crest Day Camp, a private preschool in Somerset, New Jersey. He also spent one term as mayor of Franklin Township, New Jersey.

In addition to his active radio career, he is currently involved in a flower shop business and is on the board of a bank.