Warren BODOW

BODOW, Warren of Tucson and New York, passed away in New York City on December 23, 2016. His 40-year career in radio took him from campus station newsreader to president of the New York Times' WQXR-AM/FM, a position he held longer than any other person in the station's storied history. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1939, Mr. Bodow graduated with a combined Journalism and Liberal Arts degree from Syracuse University. After Army reserve duty, he held various jobs in media promotion and radio sales: at Detroit's WKNR, and then in New York City at WNBC and WMCA. In 1978 Bodow was appointed sales director at WQXR, and he became president and general manager in 1983. Mr. Bodow also served as chairman of the New York State Broadcasters Association, and as chairman of the Arts & Business Council of New York. He was additionally on the board of Caramoor Center for the Performing Arts in Katonah, New York. In 1998, upon retiring from WQXR and its sister station, WQEW (which was founded at his direction), Mr. Bodow took up creative writing, first as an avocation, then more seriously. The results include four screenplays and six stage plays, several of which were produced professionally in New York and Arizona. His most recent play, DEELMAYKER, was produced at Tucson's Invisible Theatre in 2016. He and his wife, Ellen have two sons, Steve Bodow (Katherine Profeta) of New York, and Jonathan Bodow (Keelan) of Tempe, Arizona and four grandchildren, Griffin, Spencer, Nina and Veronica. Gifts in memory of Warren may be made to the Community Foodbank of Southern Arizona, to The Lymphoma Research Foundation or to a scholarship fund in his name that will provide financial assistance to students at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications.