Art Wander

Arthur Wanderlich (November 13, 1927 – August 13, 2025), known professionally as Art Wander, was an American television and radio sports analyst, and radio format programmer, from Buffalo, New York.

Life and career Wander was born on November 13, 1927. Raised on the East Side of Buffalo to a Polish-American family, Wander took an early interest in radio, skipping classes to watch Foster Brooks and Buffalo Bob Smith perform their radio show on WGR live from the W. T. Grant department store.

After serving in the U.S. Navy, he produced radio programs for the Veterans Administration hospital system. In 1956 he joined WKBW as a news reporter, and in 1958 hired a young Irwin Weinstein, who returned to Western New York after a stint in West Virginia, as his assistant. Weinstein, later shortening his name to "Irv," eventually became an iconic Buffalo news anchor.

Wander went on to program radio stations in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Baltimore, Atlanta, Tampa and Memphis. At WOR-FM in New York he met the Beatles and became a friend of Brian Epstein, their manager.

Wander was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2008.

For much of the early 2010s, Wander appeared regularly as an analyst on the WBBZ-TV program "All Sports WNY" (hosted and managed by his former boss at Empire, Bob Koshinski) and wrote commentary for the program's website until 2017.

Wander had two children, Scott Wanderlich and Kelley Clem, from a previous marriage to Joann Adams that ended in divorce.