What is Leonard Lopate?
{{Infobox presenter | name = Leonard Lopate | image = Leonard Lopate, May 2013 (cropped).jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Lopate in 2013 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|09|23}}<ref>{{cite web | title = U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2 | website = Ancestry.com | publisher = Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. | location = Provo, UT | date = 2010 }}</ref> | birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]], [[United States]] | death_date = | death_place = | show = The Leonard Lopate Show | station = [[WNYC]] | timeslot = | show2 = | station2 = | timeslot2 = | style = [[Talk show]] host | country = [[United States]] | prevshow = | web = }} '''Leonard Lopate''' (born September 23, 1940) is an American talk show host. He is the former host of the [[public radio]] [[talk show]] ''The Leonard Lopate Show'', broadcast on [[WNYC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/bios.html|access-date=2006-04-07|title=WNYC - Lopate - Staff Bios|publisher=[[WNYC]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060430040638/http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/bios.html |archive-date = 2006-04-30}}</ref> He first broadcasted on [[WKCR]], the college [[Radio|radio station]] of [[Columbia University]]—where his brother [[Phillip Lopate|Phillip]] was a student—then later at [[WBAI]], before ultimately moving to WNYC. Lopate's talk show aired on [[WNYC]] from noon to 2 pm every weekday. Segments of the show are available as [[podcasts]] found on [[iTunes]] and on the station's website. He was fired in December 2017 after a [[sexual harassment]] investigation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-public-radio-fires-hosts-lopate-schwartz|title=New York Public Radio Fires Hosts Lopate and Schwartz|work=WNYC|access-date=2017-12-21}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category-inline|Leonard Lopate}} * [http://mediasearch.wnyc.org/search?q=lopate&x=0&y=0 Access to recent Lopate shows] {{Webarchive|url=https://