Video bio of Mike Ahern, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2005;
Mike Ahern grew up in Indianapolis, where he listened to disc jockeys on WISH-AM, the station that would later hire Ahern for television. Before that, however, Ahern worked at WIRE-AM in Indianapolis while he was home from the University of Notre Dame during the summers. He was eventually offered a full-time position at WIRE-AM but was also noticed by Eugene Pulliam at the Indianapolis Star, as well as Sid Collins with the Indianapolis 500’s Motor Speedway Race Network. However, former WISH-TV News Director Bob Hoyt hired Ahern as a co-anchor in 1967, where he stayed until his retirement in 2004. While working at WISH-TV, Ahern received multiple Caspar awards, including one for covering the 1978 blizzard that required 67 hours of continuous coverage and for his news magazine program “30 Minutes.”
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers