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Mid -Day Host WQXR
by Tom Dwyer
When Annie Begrowicz’s career as a radio host and announcer took off more than 20 years ago, she decided to change her hard to pronounce last name to something more radio-friendly. After a few failed combinations, she found a name with a nice ring to it: Annie Bergen, after Bergen Avenue, the street where she lived as a child in Jersey City. Today, Annie Bergen still lives in Jersey City and she’s now the mid-day host on the most listened to classical radio station in New York City, WQXR, owned by the New York Times. Every weekday from 10 am to 3 pm, Bergen is the host of “The Mid-Day Show†where she treats her listeners to a cornucopia of classical music. She also hosts the Saturday morning show, “People in the Artsâ€, where she interviews artists from every corner of the art world.
Before joining WQXR in 2004, Ms. Bergen was the Chief Arts and Entertainment Reporter for Bloomberg Radio, WBBR.  She has also worked at Bloomberg Television, as well as a number of other radio stations including WBGO–the great jazz station located in Newark — where she hosted her own show called “Annie in the Afternoon.â€Â   Bergen has won many prestigious awards for her reporting, including a “Gracie†from American Women in Radio and Television and two awards from the New York State Broadcasters Association.