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Remembering the late radio engineer and Tekserve co-founder David Lerner

By Doug Doyle
Published December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM EST
David Lerner at Tekserve
photo courtesy of Dick Demenus
David Lerner at Tekserve

David Lerner was a radio engineer who co-founded a widely admired independent Macintosh store in Manhattan called Tekserve. He passed away unexpectedly last month at the age of 72.

WBGO’s Jon Kalish has this appreciation…

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Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
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