12-25-2011
Samuels died on Christmas Eve, reportedly of a heart attack. She was discovered after she failed to report for her Saturday morning show at SiriusXM where she still does a show. Sirius employees called police and asked them to go to her home in Woodside, Queens. Samuels considered herself a progressive. Her radio career began around 1979 at WBAI-FM. She moved to WABC in the late 1980s where she worked for 15 years, was fired three times. After WABC Samuels took a job in a laundromat while working at SiriusXM. She left no immediate survivors.
