11451. John Dille III's Hall of Fame Video Bio (05:46)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Dille III, John
Summary:
Video bio of John Dille III, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2007. Producer: Flint Dille; File Footage Courtesy of Federated Media & NAB; John Dille III began his career as a copy boy for the Washington Post. Later, he became a reporter for Thompson Newspaper Ltd. with overseas assignments in England, Turkey and Wales. He also worked at the Mishawaka Times and Elkhart Truth before moving to broadcasting. Dille is president of Federated Media, a 15-station radio group with stations in Indiana and Michigan. He has been active in industry affairs as past chairman and director of Indiana Broadcasters Association, chair of the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Board, the NAB/National Radio Broadcasters Association Unification task Force and the Congressional Relations Committee. Dille also served as chairman of the Radio Advertising Bureau. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11452. Bernie Eagan's Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:26)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Eagan, Bernie
Summary:
Video bio of Bernie Eagan, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018; This Beech Grove, Indiana, native was born blind, but he didn’t let that stop him from pursuing a love of music and entertainment. After graduating from the Indiana School for the Blind in 1975, Bernie Eagan went on to Ball State University where he graduated with a degree in Radio and Television Communications. He then accepted a position as a programming consultant at WWHC-FM (now WMXQ-FM) and was hired part-time at WERK-AM. Eagan began working at Emmis Communications’s WENS-FM in Indianapolis, becoming music director and assistant program director while hosting afternoon drive from 1984 to 2002 and a Friday night retro show 1999-2002. Eagan later hosted mornings and afternoons on WXYB-FM, Indianapolis. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11453. Norman Cox's Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:19)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Cox, Norman
Summary:
Video bio of Norman Cox, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018; Norman Cox began as the Indiana Statehouse reporter in 1976 in Indianapolis for WRTV-TV. He covered seven governors from Otis Bowen to Mike Pence before retiring in November 2013. A two-time Emmy award winner, Cox also received awards for excellence from the Associated Press, United Press International, Society of Professional Journalists and the Indianapolis Press Club. He graduated from The Ohio State University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism. Before coming to Indianapolis, Cox worked for WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11454. Linda Lupear's Hall of Fame Video Bio (01:28)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Lupear, Linda
Summary:
Video bio of Linda Lupear, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2019; Linda Lupear’s career as a television journalist spans nearly four decades. After graduating from Butler University, she joined the newsroom at WISH-TV to become one of the first women hired as a general assignment news reporter in the Indianapolis market. She stayed at WISH-TV for seven years before moving to WRTV-TV in 1973, where she would spend the next 24 years. During her tenure at WRTV-TV, Lupear focused on the local education beat and established a health beat to explore medical and hospital issues, problems and trends. She also covered major federal prosecutions including the Kimberlin bombing trial and the Tony Kiritsis trial, as well as scored a number of exclusive interviews and stories including with Roger Drollinger right before he turned himself in for the murder of four brothers in Hollandsburg, Indiana, in 1977. Her more than three-decade career as a reporter in Indianapolis made her one of the longest serving women reporters in the city and state. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11455. Richard M. Fairbanks' Hall of Fame Video Bio (01:54)

Date:
2016
Main contributors:
Fairbanks, Richard M.
Summary:
Video bio of Richard M. Fairbanks, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2016; For more than 50 years, Richard M. Fairbanks of Indianapolis was a leader and innovator in radio broadcasting. His company owned and operated 20 radio stations around the country, a television station in Atlanta, cable television systems, a charter airplane company and had interests in real estate. Fairbanks established the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Network when he owned and operated WIBC-FM. He was very involved with professional, civic and cultural organizations and served on many boards including Butler University, Better Business Bureau, United Way of Central Indiana and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Fairbanks was also a director of Merchants National Bank for 20 years. The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, established in 1986, has been a benefactor of the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers. Fairbanks died in 2000. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11456. Joe Angotti's Hall of Fame Video Bio (03:59)

Date:
2011
Main contributors:
Angotti, Joe
Summary:
Video bio of Joe Angotti, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2011. Production and Post-production by NBC News; National Emmy award-winning veteran Joe Angotti was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, where he worked at his dad’s bakery filling jelly doughnuts before delivering them to the steel mills. While at Indiana University, he was the first student news director of WFIU-FM and earned the first graduate degree ever awarded at IU in radio and television. After stints at Louisville’s WHAS-TV and Chicago’s WMAQ-TV, he was promoted to New York, where he was eventually named senior vice president of the NBC News Division and executive producer of NBC Nightly News. From 1993 to 1998, he taught broadcast journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication. In 1999, he was named professor and chair of the broadcast program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He later was named visiting distinguished professor of communication at Monmouth University. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11457. Mike Ahern's Hall of Fame Video Bio (08:48)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Ahern, Mike
Summary:
Video bio of Mike Ahern, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2005; Mike Ahern grew up in Indianapolis, where he listened to disc jockeys on WISH-AM, the station that would later hire Ahern for television. Before that, however, Ahern worked at WIRE-AM in Indianapolis while he was home from the University of Notre Dame during the summers. He was eventually offered a full-time position at WIRE-AM but was also noticed by Eugene Pulliam at the Indianapolis Star, as well as Sid Collins with the Indianapolis 500’s Motor Speedway Race Network. However, former WISH-TV News Director Bob Hoyt hired Ahern as a co-anchor in 1967, where he stayed until his retirement in 2004. While working at WISH-TV, Ahern received multiple Caspar awards, including one for covering the 1978 blizzard that required 67 hours of continuous coverage and for his news magazine program “30 Minutes.” --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11458. Jerry Arnold's Hall of Fame Video Bio (04:00)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Arnold, Jerry
Summary:
Video bio of Jerry Arnold, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2008. Special Thanks to: Jerry Arnold; Narration: Joshua White; Post-Production: DreamVision Media Partners; Jerry Arnold has enjoyed a long broadcast career at Midwest Radio in Terre Haute, Indiana, as director of engineering for four radio stations. He got his start in radio at age 16 at KIEV-AM in Glendale, California, after growing up playing with his parents’ RCA console radio. After moving to Indiana in 1978 and working at different stations across the state, Arnold was instrumental in pioneering one of the first radio automation systems in Terre Haute at WTHI-AM/FM and invented a satellite programming delivery device. --Words and information from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers and the Tribune Star

11459. Susan Bartlett's Hall of Fame Video Bio (06:16)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Bartlett, Susan
Summary:
Video bio of Susan Bartlett, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2007. Producer: Sue Staton; Post-Production: DreamVision Media Partners; Elizabeth Susan Bartlett worked WTTV-TV from 1949 to 1959 in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana, where she worked in traffic, continuity, photo and art departments, then later as program director. During this time, Bartlett founded the Indiana Chapter of American Women in Radio & Television and served as its president for four years. She also spent eight years working for Indianapolis advertising agencies, being named the city’s Ad Woman of the Year in 1968. Outside of Indiana, she worked in Detroit as production manager for National Television News, where she produced news film for national clients, as well as wrote, produced and directed a documentary for the U.S. Department of the Interior, which won first place at the New York International Film Festival. Bartlett produced more films for government agencies in Washington, D.C., before moving there and working as the audiovisual officer for the U.S. National Science Foundation, where she produced radio and television programs that aired on commercial and public broadcasting stations and for school use. She would return to Bloomington and die there on Sept. 22, 2018 at 91 years old. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

11460. David Bailey's Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:31)

Date:
2010
Main contributors:
Bailey, David
Summary:
Video bio of David Bailey, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2010. Producer: James Conner; Voice-over: David White; Post-production: DreamVision Media Partners; David Bailey began his television career at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, as a studio assistant in 1966 while completing his degree in business management at Indiana State University. During his tenure at the station, Bailey worked in engineering, production, public relations, marketing and sales. Bailey was named vice president and general manager of the station in 1987 and took on the additional responsibilities of radio stations WTHI-FM and WWVR-FM in 1997. He continued to oversee the three operations initially for Wabash Valley Broadcasting and later for Emmis Communications until his retirement in March 2005. Bailey has served as president of the Indiana Broadcasters Association and Chamber of Commerce, chairman of United Way, and on the boards of CBS Affiliate and Saint Mary of the Woods College. He won the NATPE Iris Award and was Emmis’s 2005 Entity of the Year. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers