About Joel Siegel
Joel Steven Siegel was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. The winner of multiple Emmy Awards, Siegel also worked as a radio disc jockey and an advertising copywriter. Siegel, during his years at WCBS-TV, also created features on the AM radio side for WCBS (880) known as Joel Siegel's New York. Joel created signature work teamed with a producer who later became an executive at WABC-TV's Eyewitness News. While Siegel worked at his reviewing, he wrote the book for The First, a Broadway musical based on the story of Jackie Robinson, for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1982. One week after being diagnosed, Siegel found out he would be a father for the first time.
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