Gene Rayburn

He had a popular morning drive time radio show in New York first with Jack Lescoulie (Anything Goes) and later with Dee Finch (Rayburn & Finch) on WNEW (now WBBR). Rayburn once hosted a local New York City-based show on WNEW-TV (now WNYW) Helluva Town and between game show stints in 1982-83 he returned to WNEW as host of a weekly local talk/lifestyles show called Saturday Morning Live. Rayburn's last game show hosting duties were on 1985's Break the Bank (he was replaced by Joe Farago after 13 weeks) and The Movie Masters an AMC cable game show that ran from 1989 to 1990.

Gene Rayburn (December 22 1917 – November 29 1999) was an American radio and television personality.