Video bio of Rita Price Simpson, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2006.
Writer: Roger Grossman, WRSW, Warsaw;
Production/Post-Production: Flint Dille, Federated Media;
Narration: Roger Grossman, WRSW, Warsaw, Ron Stryker, WRBR, Elkhart;
Additional Footage: Dean Hupert, WSJV-TV, Elkhart;
Rita Price Simpson was the first women’s basketball on-air announcer in the state of Indiana. She began her long career with WRSW-FM in 1959 in Warsaw, Indiana, selling ads for radio sports programs. She progressed to on-air interviews and soon began doing play-by-play. Starting with a girls’ tournament game in 1976, she has broadcast every girls’ and boys’ state tournament since then. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers