Indiana Broadcast History Archive

Prior to entering the broadcast business, Edwin C. Metcalfe was a professional musician and toured with the Spike Jones and his City Slickers band. He entered the broadcast business in the 1950’s when he took a TV sales position in Los Angeles. Subsequent moves took him to New York, Detroit, and Denver before coming to WPTA-TV, Fort Wayne in 1974 as Vice President and General Manager, a position he held for 15 years. He was a president of the Indiana Broadcasters Association and the ABC Board of Affiliates, and active in Fort Wayne community affairs. Metcalfe died October 23, 2014, in Arizona at age 96. 

Indiana Broadcast Pioneers