Video bio of Ken Beckley, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2011.
Producer/Voice-over: Gene Slaymaker;
Post-production: DreamVision Media Partners;
Originally from Lynville, Indiana, Ken Beckley was a broadcast journalist for 14 years, working at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana; WLOS-TV in Asheville, North Carolina; and WRTV-TV in Indianapolis. It was at WRTV-TV in 1970 when he and Howard Caldwell were pioneers as one of Indiana’s first dual-anchor teams. He became the station’s first executive news producer in 1976. From 1977 to 1983, Beckley served as Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’s first director of university relations. During an 18-year career with H. H. Gregg, Beckley served as executive vice president and was the public face and voice on all of the firm’s broadcast commercials. Then from 2002 to 2007, he was president and CEO of the Indiana University Alumni Association. As part of his volunteer work over his career, Beckley served as vice president of the Indianapolis Press Club and president of the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers.
--(Biography from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers)