by KYW's Pat Loeb
Long-time Philadelphia talk radio personality Irv Homer, 85, collapsed and died on Wednesday evening, just after offering opening remarks at a program featuring an author at Eastern University.
Homer had just delivered a ten-minute introduction in front of several hundred people, when he collapsed on-stage. Attempts were made to revive him, but he was later pronounced dead at Bryn Mawr Hospital of an apparent heart attack.
The program was sponsored by KYW's sister-station WPHT-1210. CBS Radio-Philadelphia market manager Marc Rayfield, who was in the audience, says the thoughts and prayers of the CBS family go out to Irv Homer's family. The evening's program was canceled after Homer took ill.
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