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Joe Knight, radio personality

Joe Knight, radio personality

Joe Knight, a radio personality who was known to several generations of WFBR-AM and WCBM-AM listeners as "Joe Knight, the Knight of the Spinning Roundtable" during the golden age of Baltimore radio, died Saturday at Hope Hospice in Fort Myers, Fla., of complications from a broken hip. The former Lutherville resident was 87.

"I was just out of college in 1970 when I went to work at WFBR and got to know Joe Knight, who was doing the morning show. He was the consummate communicator and was always kind and humble," said Ron Matz, a veteran Baltimore radio personality who is now a WJZ-TV reporter.

"I was so in awe of him, and everyone who ever worked with...