Marty Davis

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Marty Davis (January 8, 1949 - Detroit Michigan) is a former network radio and television news anchor with a master's degree in journalism and public affairs from the American University, Washington, D.C. (1980)

Davis writes a media and political blog Chickaboomer and is a guest on talk radio and television programs. Press Release Chickaboomer has been chosen number one of the best baby boomer blogs in America. Boomer Places

Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday columnist Ellis Henican praises Chickaboomer as "boldly funny, loose, energizing, and subversive." Can anyone top "Chickaboomer" blogger Marty Davis' nappy nickname for the returning Don Imus? To Marty, the I-man's now "Don 'Ho'... Ellis Henican Newsday

Before launching Chickaboomer January 4, 2007, Davis and Dudley Carpenter hosted a baby boomer radio comedy show "Geezer Radio." Geezer Radio #7Geezer Radio #6Geezer Radio #5Geezer Radio #4Geezer Radio #3Geezer #2Geezer #1

Marty Davis began her broadcasting career in 1971 at ABC owned-and-operated WXYZ Radio in Detroit. In 1973 Davis moved to television at the then-CBS affiliate WJBK TV Detroit. In 1978 Davis left Michigan for Washington, DC where she accepted a network radio news anchor position at Mutual Broadcasting Company. Davis anchored the news in Larry King's talk show and went on to all-news WTOP Radio in Washington, DC, and Radio One's WKYS where she was part of the morning show.

Marty (Martha Cole) Davis was married to U.S. Respresentative Robert William Davis (R-MI DOB: July 31, 1932- Marquette, MI), from 1976 to 1989.[1] Congressman Davis represented Michigan's 11th District from 1978 election until his retirement in 1993.

In 1984, Marty Davis sent a photo of herself in a black exercise leotard to Dossier, a Washington, DC society magazine. She wrote an accompanying letter saying, "Yes, there are congressional wives who aren't cloying Barbie Dolls swathed in Ultrasuede."[2] The photo was reprinted in newspapers[3] and magazines worldwide and featured on TV news programs including ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. It gained her the attention of a Hollywood agent, and she was briefly considered as a woman's talk show host.[4] Her name was so well-known that it was a JEOPARDY! question in 1985.[citation needed]

Marty Davis has appeared on NBC's Today Show,[5] MSNBC, CNBC, CNN[6] and other media outlets. She also served as a correspondent for Gary Collins' syndicated talk show Hour Magazine.[7] She initially tried to avoid the media in the wake of the photograph's appearance, but explained to the press, "I decided I'd be a fool if I didn't take advantage of all this publicity. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I thought the publicity would peter out, but it hasn't. If this is, indeed, a springboard for something else, then I should at least go for it and see what happens."[8]

Davis has appeared on such talk radio programs as Westwood One's syndicated The Jim Bohannon Show and WOR 710 New York City.

Davis married Harry F. Ervine M.D. in 2002. While attending Rutgers University Dr. Ervine was chosen to appear on the cover of TIME Magazine's January 6, 1967 Man Of The Year issue representing the year of "25 And Under". TIME cover

Davis has one daughter, Alexandra, born July 30, 1983.

[edit] References

  1. ^ W. Speers. "Couples". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 11, 1989. C02.
  2. ^ "Congressman's wife sheds an image". San Francisco Chronicle. 7 February 1985.1
  3. ^ Lloyd Grove. "Marty Davis and The Pose That Was". The Washington Post. 7 February 1985. B1. "When last seen, the blond-tressed Davis, 36, wife of a four-term Republican congressman and erstwhile mortician from rural Michigan, was gazing out of the February issue of Dossier magazine, bending over in a cutaway exercise leotard and high-heel shoes. Yesterday, after the Associated Press disseminated the leggy pose in four-color separation from coast to coast, the switchboard in the Longworth Building office lit up like neon..."
  4. ^ "Photo changes life for legislator's wife". Associated Press. Detroit Free Press. March 4, 1985. 20A.
  5. ^ John Carmody. "Now here's the news". The Washington Post. February 11, 1985. B6.
  6. ^ "Lawmaker's wife using sexy photo to launch career". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. March 11, 1985. A3.
  7. ^ Chuck Conconi. "Marty Davis' New Career". The Washington Post. June 11, 1985. C3.
  8. ^ W. Speers. "Why not?" The Philadelphia Inquirer. March 12, 1985. F02.

[edit] External links

  • Chickaboomer, Davis's television, radio, media, and political criticism blog