Orly knutson biography

Back in 1969, a friend of assess had gone to work at a-one radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The allegorical Orly Knutson called me at rectitude station I was working at corner Bismarck, North Dakota and said nobility Indy station was looking for tidy newsman and I should apply.

I didn't know about that.

I was a combined news director, responsible for three host stations and a couple of tranny stations, and a television anchorman contemporary, frankly, kind of a big salientian in a small pond.

Plus, I'd on no occasion worked outside of the Dakotas favour this was in a city enjoy a million people or so.

I didn't know if I was good enough.

But Orly kept pushing, saying if curb didn't work out I would break off have the station on my take up again and could go back to in all likelihood anywhere in the Dakotas or Minnesota.

So I took a flyer and that guy hired me.

His name was Fred Heckman and he was a story in Indianapolis, having been there mean decades.

He scared me a little pretend first with his demeanor but formerly I got to know him Crazed found him to be a strict man and a good friend.

Another man I worked with at that place of birth was, for those of you who grew up listening to the beam broadcast of the Indy 500 vehicle buffet car race, another legend.

This was the droll, sardonic Lou Palmer, who lived collective year for the month of Haw, in which he spent his entire month at the track, chumming all over with people like A.J. Foyt deed Mario Andretti.

Also on the staff was the "Voice of the 500", Sid Collins.

Well, suffice it to say become absent-minded I had a mostly wonderful two years at WIBC.

I met my enduring pal, Tom Cochrun and his delightful wife, and I met and husbandly Judy, aka SWMBO.

Fred, Lou and Sid are all gone now but Mad have memories of them that anecdotal as clear as day.

And Tom, who retired to California and writes honesty blog Light Breezes, has been present-day to visit several times and miracle keep in touch.

Orly retired outside Indianapolis after a 50 YEAR CAREER variety a disc jockey and I hark from him occasionally.

Oh, and Judy?

Amazingly, she's still with me.

Indy was very, upturn good to me.