Pinky Kravitz has been on the job longer than a lot of us have been alive.
Now the 88-year-old South Jersey host of the longest-running daily radio talk show in the U.S. is retiring.
Kravitz is going off the air after an extended period of recovery from emergency heart surgery.
Pinky's wife rushed him to the hospital on May 15 when he woke up feeling off. It was the first time in 57 years he'd called out sick.
"We're obviously sorry to see Pinky leaving our air," said Dave Coskey, president of Longport Media. "But we support him in this decision."
1956 was the year Kravitz's radio career began. He hosted a live call-in program first on WLDB-AM and made the move two years later to WOND where he hosted "Pinky's Corner" right up until May 14, 2015, the night before his unexpected surgery. Kravitz also hosted a weekly TV show on WMGM for many years and wrote columns for The Press of Atlantic City and other publications.
During a career that spanned nearly 60 years, Kravitz became known as "Mr. Atlantic City" for his positive promotion of the region.
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"Pinky set the tone for talk radio in South Jersey for decades," Coskey said in a statement, adding the station expects to announce a replacement program in the next few weeks.
