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The Greaseman was born on August 1, 1950 and is 73 years old now.
Birthday: August 1, 1950
How Old - Age: 73
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The Greaseman - Biography
Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht (born August 1, 1950) 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 WWDC-FM in Washington, D.C. where he took over the morning drive time slot from Howard Stern.
By 2002 Tracht returned to the air from his home studio, broadcasting on WDMV AM 700 (previously WGOP) near Frederick, Maryland, and was soon afterward syndicated to numerous other stations in the region. He then held the morning-show slot on WMET AM 1160 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, until November 2, 2007. The Washington Post has described this period as "six years of broadcasting his morning show on tiny, unknown AM stations with signals so weak they dissolve under the static created by a car's ignition system."
Marc Fisher, a Washington Post columnist, wrote a story in November 2007 that questioned why Tracht hadn't been rehabilitated to the public like other broadcasters: Pat O'Brien, Don Imus, Marv Albert, and Opie and Anthony. All were suspended for bad behavior, some of which was criminal, but all returned to the microphone. Fisher called Tracht "the most talented of the shock jocks, a storyteller so verbally nimble, so fantastically imaginative that his showmanship seemed wasted on an audience of adolescent guys."
Selected Greaseman bits were heard during late PM drive on WGRX-FM 104.5 in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, area. On March 31, 2008, WWDC announced that the Greaseman show would be returning on Saturday mornings beginning April 5, 2008, and that the run would go until October 2008, after Clear Channel decided to have more "music intensive" weekends on DC101.
