Indiana Broadcast History Archive

Dick Lingle's Hall of Fame Video Bio

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2010

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Video bio of Dick Lingle, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2010.

Producer/Voice-over: Hal Fryar;
Post-production: DreamVision Media Partners;

Lingle was an announcer for WMRI-FM in Marion, Indiana, before moving in 1950 to WFBM-TV in Indianapolis. He is well remembered for live commercial work as the Omar Bread Man and the Polk Milk Man during early TV years. He did sports for Channel 6 early and late newscasts, and he covered Speedway activities for the station. In 1960, he became program manager and part-owner of WASK-FM in Lafayette, Indiana, before returning to Channel 6 as Account Representative from 1967 until he retired in 1990. Lingle died July 9, 2016, in Largo, Florida, at the age of 89.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers