death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
woodside , new york , u.s. 24 december 2011 niagara falls , new york , u.s. 2 september 1942 lynn samuels
 lynn samuels
lynn samuels

lynn margaret samuels -lrb- september 2 , 1942 -- december 24 , 2011 -rrb- was an american radio personality and blogger , based in new york city .
she attended bard college .
she began her radio career at wbai in 1979 , where in addition to her on-air work , she was music director and an engineer and producer .
walter sabo , in a tribute on the alex bennett program -lrb- hosted by richard bey -rrb- on december 27 , 2011 , stated that lynn first worked for wor on saturdays from 4 -- 6 p.m. `` for quite some time '' .
samuels was heard on wabc from 1987 until 1992 , 1993 until 1997 , and 1997 until 2002 , including two breaks in which she was fired and then rehired .
her third and final dismissal in 2002 was allegedly due to budget cuts .
samuels was also a call-screener for matt drudge .
in 2002 , she joined wlie for a brief time before being hired by sirius in 2003 .
from 2003 to 2011 , samuels hosted `` the lynn samuels show '' initially from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the weekends before being moved to the shift from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. et on the sirius satellite radio channel sirius left .
early in 2011 , after sirius left was folded into sirius xm left , sirius reduced her hours and she began a new weekend talk show on sirius xm stars from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on saturdays and sundays .
she also made television appearances on fox news , cnn , msnbc , `` the sally jesse raphael show '' , `` geraldo at large '' and `` politically incorrect '' .
