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Mar 23, 2009 10:47 am US/Pacific

Former Bay Area Radio Newsman Found Dead In NY

NEW YORK (CBS 5 / AP) ― A veteran radio news reporter who formerly worked at San Francisco's KGO Radio was found dead in his New York City apartment with a stab wound to his neck over the weekend, police said.

Authorities declared George Weber's death a homicide. His body was found Sunday after he failed to show up for work. Autopsy results were expected later Monday, said Ellen Bora-kove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office.

The 47-year-old Weber most recently had worked at WABC Radio in New York. The station let him go amid programming changes last year.

He had since worked as a freelancer for ABC News Radio, the national network.

"He really loved news radio and enjoyed being on the air and enjoyed the connection he had with his listeners," ABC News Radio Vice President Steve Jones said.

Jones had called the police when Weber failed to show up for a scheduled shift on Saturday.

Police at first found nothing amiss at the three-story brownstone in a Brooklyn neighborhood, where Weber lived alone on the ground floor, Jones said. But Sunday, police checked again and found Weber dead in his apartment, Jones said.

Neighbor Nick Olivieri described Weber as "a real good guy. This is a shame - this is a shock."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Weber would be deeply missed by millions of radio listeners

"George was the kind of professional who could give you the news and his views without one getting in the way of the other," Bloomberg said. "On or off the air... his views were incisive and insightful."

Before his death, Weber recounted on his blog how he was fascinated with radio from an early age and even set up a makeshift radio station in the basement of his childhood home in Philadelphia. He later worked for a radio station in nearby Doylestown, Pa.

In addition to KGO, Weber previously worked at stations KTLK and KMPC in Los Angeles.

(© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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