Indiana Broadcast History Archive

Betty Turnell joined the Communications faculty at DePauw University following studies at Northwestern University in 1944. She remained at DePauw until retiring in 1971. She taught a wide range of courses while producing and supervising student radio programs over Indianapolis station WIRE-AM from a studio on campus. She obtained the first 10-watt educational radio license in the nation. Station WGRE-FM in Greencastle, Indiana, began broadcasting in 1949 and Turnell was named general manager.

Turnell was inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2010.

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