Video bio of Don Payne, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2011.
Producer: Chuck Williams;
Voice-over: Joshua White;
Post-production: DreamVision Media Partners;
At the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Don Payne worked at radio stations KAAY-AM and KLPQ-FM. While attending Purdue University’s School of Engineering, he worked at WZUS and WAZY-FM in Lafayette, Indiana. He was a trained engineer but also an on-air personality heard live on WZPL-FM in Indianapolis and WAZY-FM in Lafayette simultaneously. After working as director of engineering for WKRQ-FM in Cincinnati, he returned to Indianapolis to be chief engineer for Radio One’s one television and four radio stations. Payne died Dec. 12, 2010.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers