One of the goals of the Indiana Broadcast History Archive is not just to save television and radio history, but also to encourage people to dig into the archives and see what they find. Over the past few years, several students in the IU Media School have researched specific topics using the IBHA archives.
You don't need to be a student though. If you would like to help us research and tell stories about Indiana broadcasting, please let us know.
You can explore the projects below
On a frigid February morning in 1977, Tony Kiritsis walked into the offices of Meridian Mortgage in downtown Indianapolis with a grudge...and he walked out with a hostage. With a live television audience watching, Kiritsis paraded Dick Hall around the snowy city streets with a shotgun wired to the back of his head, and instantly […]
The Little 500 bike races at Indiana University have been a popular campus tradition since the mid-20th Century. But it took a low budget movie that captured the public’s attention to bring the race to a wider audience. For a few years in the early 1980s, the Little 500 was a national sensation, featured on […]
A 1979 novelty 45-rpm record that celebrated Larry Bird's historic basketball career at Indiana State University also includes a short piece of Indiana sports broadcast history. When you listen to the song, you'll hear the end of an ISU game that season that almost derailed the magical season. The moment involves a legendary Indiana sports […]
Jeff Morris "Sundog", Chief Engineer and a founding member of WFHB Community Radio, shares the history of the station in Bloomington, Indiana.
Ginny Hingst’s father is former Indiana broadcaster Howard Caldwell, a man she describes as a good husband and father in addition to being well-liked and humble. Caldwell saved a lot of material from his career and life that Hingst has shared with the IBHA. “Dad was always a contributor to history,” Hingst said. “I’m following […]
Like any other Indianapolis Race Day, the capital city of Indiana was filled with excitement and chatter about the 500 Mile Race. Memorial Day Weekend in 1949 had something else to offer to those not in attendance at the Speedway Track; for the first time in Indiana history the race was to be broadcasted on […]
In 1965, Howard Caldwell was sent on a month-long assignment with photographer Les Walden to the Far East. He became the first American journalist to interview Indira Gandhi, India’s first female prime minister. Caldwell traveled to three countries in Asia on assignment from 1965 to 1966 including India, Pakistan and Vietnam. Caldwell had an interest […]
