Gary Axelbank

Gary hosts BronxTalk, the borough’s flagship talk show on BronxNet cable television. Since its debut in October 1994, Gary’s hosted 1,500 weekly editions, including more than 100 political debates, and numerous programs on education, crime and policing, youth, parks, healthcare, arts and culture, community issues, and more.

He also hosts The Bronx Buzz on BronxNet, a weekly reporter’s roundtable that debuted in March 2016 and he teaches TV performance in BronxNet’s Education Department.

In February 2024 Gary debuted the monthly The Bronx Music Podcast – with Gary Axelbank, a unique study of the vast expanse of Bronx music that is conducted in front of a live audience.

He began his media career in 1976 as a radio DJ, working at stations in Maryland and Delaware. He was at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, NY where he worked with and ultimately succeeded Howard Stern as program director, and he was a late-night DJ at WDHA in Dover, NJ.

Gary attended public schools in the Bronx and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Lehman College. He and his wife Suzanne are lifelong residents of Van Cortlandt Village in the Bronx and have two adult children, their daughter-in-law, and their granddaughter.