Joe Franklin dies

Longtime New York City radio and television personality Joe Franklin, 88, died.

Franklin was a fixture on late-night radio and TV in New York, working at WJZ and WOR, and recently at the Bloomberg Radio Network.

He interviewed more than 300,000 guests, including Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby and Liza Minnelli.

Franklin was parodied on "Saturday Night Live" by Billy Crystal and played himself in such films as "Manhattan," "Ghostbusters" and "Broadway Danny Rose."

He had more than 50,000 movie stills, 170,000 magazines, 20,000 playbills and 200,000 pieces of sheet music.