Member Profile
Alan Silverman
- Biography:
- Originally from Jersey City, NJ (the other end of the Holland Tunnel), Alan began in radio in 1965 on the Jersey shore - a career that took him across the country and, ultimately, around the world, anchoring and producing programs, reporting news and covering events from space shuttle launches to backstage at the Oscars for local stations in the US, worldwide on Voice of America and internationally to audiences in South Africa, Ireland, Israel and other countries. In 1997 he launched his independent Hollywood Bytes radio entertainment news service, broadcasting reviews, interviews and feature reports on new films and events from awards shows to festivals, especially the Toronto International Film Festival (which he covered for a decade) and the Academy Awards (covering them for a consecutive 21 years). Alan switched off his mic in 2013, retiring, with his wife Nella, to Kona, Hawaii to live close to their granddaughter.
