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WTHR

First airing on October 30, 1957, as WLW-I. operating as Channel 13, WTHR emerged from years of licensing battles to become Indianapolis’ fourth and last full-power VHF television station. Crosley… Read More »WTHR

WTLC

WTLC made its debut on 105.7 FM in January 1968 when a group of Marion County Democrats organized the Indianapolis Radio Corporation and took over the FCC license of financially… Read More »WTLC

WTTV

Sarkes Tarzian, a former engineer at RCA in Bloomington, Indiana, who started his own company manufacturing television tuners and other electronic components, put WTTV on the air on November 11,… Read More »WTTV

WXIN

WXIN began broadcasting as WPDS on February 1, 1984, four years after Melvin and Fred Simon and Gerald Kraft, then vice president of Melvin Simon and Associates, applied as Indianapolis… Read More »WXIN

WXLW

On August 18, 1948, Radio Indianapolis Inc., led by Conrad Ruckelshaus and Frederic M. Ayres Jr., put WXLW on the air, occupying 1590 AM during daylight hours. The station, headquartered… Read More »WXLW

WXNT

Founded by radio pioneers Carl and Noble B. Watson, radio station WKBF began broadcasting on November 29, 1926, from a Ford automobile showroom on East Washington Street. In December, the… Read More »WXNT

Edward Henry Ziegner

(Aug. 8, 1920 -June 22, 1993). An Indianapolis native, Edward Henry Ziegner graduated from Shortridge High School in 1938 and attended Wabash College as well as Indiana University. He began… Read More »Edward Henry Ziegner

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