Warner Wolf was simply entertaining the staff and the customers, something he was to continue throughout his long career.
24 Facts About Warner Wolf
1.
2.
Warner Wolf began as a radio broadcaster on April 1,1961, doing news, weather, and sports for WLSI-AM in Pikeville, Kentucky, under the name Ken Warner Wolf.
3.
Warner Wolf then moved on to radio jobs in Martinsburg, West Virginia, at WEPM, and Washington, DC, at WTOP before landing a sports television role in 1965 at WTOP-TV in Washington.
4.
Warner Wolf retained his job as sports director at WTOP throughout the 1960s, even announcing occasionally on radio broadcasts of Washington Senators games.
5.
In 1976, Warner Wolf gained an ABC Sports network role, working on Monday Night Baseball telecasts and as a host for coverage of football and the Olympics.
6.
Still under contract with ABC, Warner Wolf returned to local sportscasting with a job at WABC-TV in New York in 1976, and then in 1980 moved to rival station WCBS-TV.
7.
Warner Wolf's move to WCBS-TV resulted in a lawsuit, American Broadcasting Co.
8.
Warner Wolf returned to Washington as the sports anchor at WUSA, the former WTOP-TV, in June 1992.
9.
Warner Wolf succeeded Glenn Brenner, who died earlier that year and had replaced Warner Wolf back in 1977 when he joined ABC Sports.
10.
Between November 1995 and December 1996, Warner Wolf was the guest host of The Tony Kornheiser Show on Thursdays on WTEM and sometimes he flew to New York as a substitute sports anchor on Imus in the Morning when the regular sports anchor, Mike Breen, was away.
11.
Warner Wolf broke the news of the September 11,2001 attacks on the Imus show, when he saw the World Trade Center on fire from his Lower Manhattan apartment.
12.
Warner Wolf stayed there until May 2004, returning to WABC in 2006 as the sports reporter for Curtis and Kuby, and continuing, with a two-week hiatus, on the Imus in the Morning program following Don Imus's arrival at WABC.
13.
Warner Wolf served as Imus's sports contributor until November 3,2016, when Imus decided to replace Wolf with Sid Rosenberg.
14.
On May 27,2004, Warner Wolf was fired by WCBS-TV general manager Lew Leone three months before his contract expired, and replaced by a much younger anchor, Chris Wragge.
15.
The day after his firing, his picture covered half the front page of the New York Daily News with the other half being covered by the headline "Warner Wolf Fans Raise a Howl".
16.
When Imus in the Morning returned to WABC in December 2007, Warner Wolf was not the sports anchor: Tony Powell took that position.
17.
Warner Wolf hosted a Saturday sports talk show on 1050 ESPN Radio.
18.
On February 7,2019, Warner Wolf turned himself in and was arrested after he broke letters off a sign at the entrance of Classics Plantation Estates in East Naples, Florida, according to deputies at the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
19.
Surveillance video on November 30,2018, showed a man matching Warner Wolf's description removing the word "plantation" from the sign with a tool.
20.
Warner Wolf faced a felony charge of criminal mischief, according to the arrest report.
21.
Warner Wolf told a radio talk show audience the following month that prosecutors "likely felt the intent was not criminal" so only required that he pay restitution for damages.
22.
Warner Wolf played himself in the film Rocky IV and has made several other cameo appearances.
23.
Warner Wolf is the author of the books Let's Go to the Videotape and Give Me a Break.
24.
Warner Wolf is currently heard Mondays at 7:35 am on "Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning" on WOR AM-710 in New York.