 Born to a Jewish family, Klein graduated from Brown University in 1980 with a degree in history.He was news director and then general manager of WBRU, a student-run 50,000-watt commercial radio station.Klein began his television career in 1980 as a news producer at WLNE in Providence, R.I., and the following year moved to a similar position at WPIX in New York on the Independent Network News program.