Marjorie S. "Marty" Moss-Coane (born February 14, 1949)U.S. Public Records Index Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American radio personality, podcaster, and executive. She was the host and executive producer of Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, in Philadelphia. Moss-Coane has worked at WHYY-FM since 1983, when she began working as an associate producer on Fresh Air. She became a host when Fresh Air went national in 1987. Since 2023, Moss-Coane has hosted the podcast The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane, produced by the Philadelphia NPR affiliate WHYY, which serves as a continuation of her Radio Times show.
Family Moss-Coane is the daughter of Robert and Huldah Moss and the granddaughter of Philadelphia real estate developer Frank H. Moss. She attended the George Washington University, and earned a liberal arts degree from Temple University.Melissa Jacobs, "Marty Moss-Coane Reflects on Over Three Decades of ‘Radio Times’", Main Line Today, March 29, 2018; retrieved 2026-10-05. She and her husband, clinical psychologist James Coane, have a son, Jesse."Marty Moss-Coane", Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania; retrieved 2026-10-05.
Career Moss-Coane started her career at WHYY as a newsroom volunteer in 1980 and became a reporter in subsequent years. She joined the radio station after working as a school counselor and mental health professional. She began working on the show Fresh Air in the mid-1980s as an editor and assistant producer, but Terry Gross and co-executive producer Danny Miller encouraged her to try interviewing. On October 27, 1987, she started as the host of Radio Times, and worked in that capacity until the program left the air in 2022. Since then she has hosted the program "The Connection" on WHYY.
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