Biography
Flatow was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, where his first experience with a television news program was in his high school. He was a cameraman for the daily news program at H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square, New York. In 1967, however, Flatow entered college to pursue an engineering degree at the University at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1971 in civil engineering. In 1969, he began working in radio at WBFO, in Buffalo, New York and his first news experience was covering antiwar speeches, demonstrations and campus riots at UB in 1970. Flatow's first science stories were created in 1970 during the first Earth Day. In 1971, he became the news director of WBFO.
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