Doug Tracht

Doug The Greaseman Tracht is an American radio, television, and movie personality. Tracht is best known for the controversial comments he made on his morning show in the 1980s on WWDCFM in Washington, D.C. where he took over the morning drive time slot from Howard Stern.

Tracht was born and grew up in the South Bronx with his younger sister, Diana, and parents, Alfred and Gertrude Tracht. His father was a native New Yorker who sold dental supplies his mother was a Lutheran immigrant from Germany who stayed home to raise her two children until they were in high school, then became a noted educator. Tracht attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated in 1968. He majored in broadcasting at Ithaca College and landed a job at the college radio station. From the first day I got on the air, I was trying to do comedy bits and tell jokes. After my first year in college, I had this station in Buffalo, New York, offer me a big time job. Tracht got a job at WTKO, a lowpower top40 station in Ithaca. The following year, he had moved up to night DJ at a larger station in Binghamton, New York, WENE. Tracht graduated from Ithaca College in 1972 and married Marie who was the receptionist at WENE.

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