Larry Mendte Biography
Larry Mendte is a news anchor, analyst, and radio talk show host from the United States. Currently, Mendte hosts three TV shows: Jersey Matters, The Delaware Way, and Another Thing with Larry Mendte. Mendte also hosts The Larry Mendte Show on New York’s WABC (AM).
How old is Larry Mendte? – Age
He is 66 years old as of 16 January 2023. He was born in 1957 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States.
Larry Mendte Family – Education
He was born and raised in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, and attended St. Philomena Catholic School for primary school. He started delivering the Philadelphia Bulletin around this period. Mendte attended nearby Drexel Hill’s Monsignor Bonner High School. Mendte was honored in the high school’s Hall of Fame in 2003. He graduated from West Chester University with a B.A. in Communications and was awarded an outstanding alumnus. Mendte received the President’s Medal for Service in appreciation of his community service after delivering a commencement address in 2006.
Is Larry Mendte married? – Children
Since 2000, Mendte has been married to Dawn Stensland, the former 10 p.m. news co-anchor at Fox’s WTXF (Channel 29). She arrived in Philadelphia in 1997 as an anchor for KYW before moving on to lead CBS News Saturday Morning for a year and a half. She worked as an anchor and reporter for WBBM in Chicago, Illinois, and WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1990s. They have two sons: Michael, born in 2004, and David, born in 2006. Mendte also has two adult children from a previous marriage, Stacia and Jonathan.
Larry Mendte Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Larry Mendte Philadelphia magazine
From 2010 through 2015, Mendte contributed to the online version of Philadelphia Magazine. Mendte’s essay about his niece drowning is one of the most popular columns on the site. Mendte contributes to the print version of the magazine on occasion, including a feature article about his life after being let go by KYW. In five years, Mendte contributed over 200 articles to the site.
Larry Mendte WPIX
Mendte co-anchored with Kaity Tong on the day Hurricane Sandy hit the New York City area in October 2012. For the next ten days, he and Jodi Applegate co-anchored an extended 5 and 10 p.m. newscast at WPIX. Mendte co-anchored the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing for 12 hours straight with Tamsen Fadal in April 2013, when Boston Police killed one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in a firefight and later apprehended his sibling, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Larry Mendte iHeartMedia
Mendte was appointed as the morning talk show anchor for WILM-AM in Wilmington, Delaware and WDOV-AM in Dover, Delaware by iHeartMedia in June 2015. From 5:30 to 9:00 a.m., the Larry Mendte Show could be heard in both areas. Mendte returned to WABC in New York in October 2016 after helping to transform the format from news to talk and increase morning ratings.
Larry Mendte WABC Radio
Mendte was hired by WABC (AM) radio in New York City in June 2014 to host a Sunday night discussion show called “The Larry Mendte Show.” During the week, he also frequently fills in for Geraldo Rivera and Curtis Sliwa. Mendte has also filled in for Ronn Owens on San Francisco’s KGO-AM radio. Mendte returned to WABC in October 2016 to host “The Larry Mendte Show” from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday nights. Mendte co-hosted the station’s election night coverage with Rita Cosby in 2016.
Larry Mendte Affair
He is the station’s public relations director and the anchor of two programs. The Delaware Way, a week-in-review recap of state concerns, and Another Thing with Larry Mendt, a more general news and analysis program featuring Mendte’s customary commentary pieces, air on Saturday nights before primetime.
Mendte won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy in the category of Outstanding Writer News/Commentary in 2016 for his commentaries that air at the end of And Another Thing with Larry Mendt. It was Mendte’s 95th Emmy award and WDPN’s first. Mendte also works as the public relations director for WJLP, WDPN-TV’s sister station in the New York market licensed to Middletown Township, New Jersey.
Larry Mendte IQ 106.9 FM
Mendte made his re-visitation of the Philadelphia wireless transmissions on May 7, 2012, with the presentation of WWIQ. Mendte began with the station as co-host of the morning drive from 5 am to 9 am with radio veteran Al Gardner, who is initially from Philadelphia and moored a similar organization at WBT in Charlotte, N.C. Mendte gave discourse on news occasions in a configuration that is a combination of talk and news. Mendte began solo facilitating a syndicated program from 8:30 until 9 in July 2012. On October 1, 2012, Mendte’s was extended from 8:30 to 10 am. On the new show, Mendte broke the public story of the great school understudy who was harassed for wearing a Romney/Ryan Shirt to class.
On December 31, 2012, Mendte was terminated, guaranteeing his residency there was ‘a major trial’. The excusal of Mendte just powered the hypothesis that the radio broadcast was available to be purchased. After Mendte’s termination, the station’s evaluations dropped in half from a 3.6 rating in November to 1.8 in January. In August 2013 it was declared that Merlin was offering the station to Instructive Media Establishment.
