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CurrentBIOGRAPHY - ED CLANCYBorn in Syracuse , New York, Ed majored in Radio-TV at Syracuse University. Ed moved to New Orleans in 1973, serving as as anchor of WGSO-AM morning news block, later as News Director. From 1980-83 he was WVUE-TV’s (Fox 8) prime feature reporter.Ed joined WTIX-AM as News Director in 1983 and in 1985 he was named host of the WTIX morning show. Mr. Clancy hosted his own daily talk show on WWL-AM for five years. The Times-Picayune called Clancy… Show more BIOGRAPHY - ED CLANCYBorn in Syracuse , New York, Ed majored in Radio-TV at Syracuse University. Ed moved to New Orleans in 1973, serving as as anchor of WGSO-AM morning news block, later as News Director. From 1980-83 he was WVUE-TV’s (Fox 8) prime feature reporter.Ed joined WTIX-AM as News Director in 1983 and in 1985 he was named host of the WTIX morning show. Mr. Clancy hosted his own daily talk show on WWL-AM for five years. The Times-Picayune called Clancy “Talk Radio’s Top Gun.”In the mid 1970's he invented the ED CLANCY RADIO CARTOON. In these three minute lampoons Mr. Clancy generally skewered both sides of the political spectrum. Ed’s “Cartoons” have won many production and writing awards for Radio and Television. Ed did all writing, production and a majority of the voices in the Radio (and TV) Cartoons.In 1991 he began “Ed Clancy’s Over The Wall Productions, ” which has produced TV shows and videos (including the “Ed Clancy TV Cartoon” seen on WGNO-TV/26). Ed was host --and producer – of a daily talk show, “CALLING ED CLANCY,” on WLAE-TV public television. OTW also produces tourism/ industrial/governmental/ videos (Including “Buddy Stall’s Cities of the Dead: Metairie Cemetery”, as well as overseeing Ed’s numerous appearances as a Master of Ceremonies, Roaster, and lecturer on humor in Louisiana politics. He also has done numerous commercial voice overs and narrated the documentary, "The Irish in New Orleans" on WYES PBS New Orleans. Ed hosted The Ed Clancy Show weekday mornings 6am to 9am on WSMB 1350 AM in New Orleans from 2001 to 2003.For 11 years was host of KENNER AMERICA’S CITY , a weekly program seen on COX CABLE CHANNEL 6, and later KTV Channel 76, co-produced by Cox and Ed’s OTW Productions. He also writes a highly regarded column for the KENNER STAR. He was host of THE ED CLANCY SHOW weekdays on WGSO 990AM in New Orleans from June 2007 to June 2008. Show less
