Whether he’s interviewing Robert John Burck, the “Naked Cowboy” presidential and New York mayoral candidate, leaders of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church or former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, talk-show host David Pakman is sure to have a following stretching from coast to coast, five foreign countries and across cyberspace.
Now, Pakman, whose twice-weekly program is heard on radio and watched on television, podcasts, YouTube videos, iPhone and Android apps and via satellite on the Direct TV and Dish Network, is moving his studio from Northampton to Greenfield.
He was a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student when he launched a weekly radio program in 2005 on the fledgling WXOJ-LP, Valley Free Radio’s low-power station in Florence — believed to be the youngest talk-show host in the country.
As it nears its sixth anniversary next month, The David Pakman Show has grown to be heard and watched on 140 radio and television stations, along with its various other formats and a loyal following that includes members, podcast and YouTube subscribers and listeners across the globe. So he’s trading the tiny rented studio space beneath A.P.E. Gallery on Northampton’s Main Street — to which the show moved a year ago — for a basement space in Greenfield Community College’s downtown center.