Warner Wolf woke up for work yesterday before you did - twice. At 1 a.m. Wolf, a lifelong restless sleeper, awoke and spent an hour checking the Internet for news of the previous night, both the mundane (Pistons beat Celtics) and the paranormal (Knicks win!). At 4:30, he rose again, this time to meet a car at 5 that drove him the 40 blocks from his home to 2 Penn Plaza and the studios of ESPN 1050 and WABC. By 5:45, he was on the air for the first of 13 times in four hours. In his spare time, he taped two more segments for use later in the day. Wolf turned 70 last month, by the way. So if you had Warner and retirement after 46 years in the business, you lost! "I could never picture being retired," he said between brisk walks down a short corridor separating the studios. "To me, in life you have to have a reason to get up." ... Sure enough, just after 6 o'clock Monday, there was Wolf, kibitzing with Imus, like old times. WABC and ESPN 1050 used to be owned by the same company. Now they're not. So why would 1050 agree to this? Largely for the promotional benefits, but also out of loyalty to Wolf, with whom 1050 program director Aaron Spielberg once worked in Washington.
-- Newsday
Warner Wolf can still handle double shift -- Newsday.com
12-21-2007, 11:46 PM
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