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Ronald Coleman Smith (December 2, – December 19, ) was an American talk radio show host on WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland.!
Talk show host Ron Smith told his listeners he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to other organs Oct. 17, He died the next month.
Ron Smith (radio host)
American journalist
Ron Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ronald Coleman Smith December 2, 1941 Troy, New York, United States |
| Died | December 19, 2011(2011-12-19) (aged 70) Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Radio host, political commentator, TV news anchor, reporter |
| Years active | 1968–2011 |
| Spouse | June Ray |
| Children | 5 |
Ronald Coleman Smith (December 2, 1941 – December 19, 2011) was an American talk radio show host on WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland.
Early life
A native of Troy, New York, Smith dropped out of high school at age seventeen. He served in the Marine Corps from 1959 to 1963. Following his discharge, he moved to Albany, New York, where he worked in community theater.
In 1963 he enrolled in Northeast Broadcasting School and after graduating, worked as a disk jockey at WHAV in Haverhill, Massachusetts.[1]
Broadcast career
He began his television reporting career at WTEN-TV in Albany in 1968.
