The OPEN LINE Show is hosted by Bob Slade, James
Mtume and Bob Pickett. Open Line is a "live" call in show
(2 hours) which airs on Sunday mornings beginning at 10 a.m. to
12 noon on 50 thousand watt WRKS-FM, aka KISS-FM / 98.7 on the FM
dial, reaching the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut markets.
The Open Line Show has been called by numerous leaders and journalists
as “One of the most important talk shows in America. . . Its impact
is enormous” and ranked by Talkers Magazine as one of the top 100
Talk Shows in America. Open Line is the most listened to talk show in
the tri-state area with a 12+ share in its time slot. Open Line has won
the 1998 & 2002 New York Metro A.I.R. Award for the “Best Public
Affairs Show” in the New York Market.
A Harlem, New York native,
Bob Slade's original dream was to become an actor. He
attended Queens College where he studied acting, and he
eventually became a member of the Negro Ensemble Theatre
Company and the Harlem YMCA Theater Group in NYC. He began
doing news radio in 1971 at a Long Island radio station,
and then he proceeded to a radio station in Upstate New
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An Attorney At Law for 33 years
with vast experience in complex litigation, both civil
and criminal, and former Judge in the Administrative Courts
of New Jersey; Chairman and
Organizing Founding Member of Black United Fund of New
Jersey now the African American Fund of New Jersey More...
Politically conscious, Mtume always gives
the listening audience the “3rd Answer” on
music, politics and events. There is, as he always says,
“the right answer, the wrong answer and, of course,
the third answer --- the answer you never really thought
about”. More...
