Alan Colmes, a top-rated television and radio broadcaster, died of lymphoma. His wife, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, said that he passed away late Feb. 22 or early Feb. 23, 2017.
As co-host with conservative Sean Hannity of “Hannity & Colmes,” he became best known as the liberal in the “lion’s den” of Fox News. He died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 66.
Colmes joined the Fox News Channel on its founding in 1996, debuting with Hannity the evening the channel first went on air. “Hannity & Colmes” became the channel’s longest-running prime-time program — second only in the cable ratings to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” and outranking CNN’s “Larry King Live” — before Mr. Colmes left the show in 2008.
In addition to those works, Colmes contributed to AOL News and had a blog named “Liberland.”
Know more about Colmes’ family by reading Heavy.com's Alan Colmes Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know.
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