Indiana Broadcast History Archive

Gordon Yoder was a news film photographer for the Hollywood newsreels in the 1940s and transitioned to television in the 1950s. He was an important member of the moving pictures side of the...

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Av Westin was an important part of American network television news in the 20th Century. He started with CBS radio in the 1940s and later transitioned to CBS-TV news. He moved to ABC News and...

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Reuven Frank was one of the most important people in the early decades of American television news. He started with NBC's television newscast in 1950 and helped lead that effort for the next few...

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Robert Bendick had a long career in television and other media. He was part of the original CBS-TV crew when commercial television was launched in 1941. Later in his career, he was the first...

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Richard C. Hottelet was one of the original "Murrow Boys" who worked for Edward R. Murrow at CBS during World War II. Hottelet was the first broadcast journalist to give the listeners a first-hand...

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Philip Scheffler worked at CBS-TV news from 1950, until well into the 21st Century. He worked closely with Don Hewitt on the launch of "60 Minutes" in 1968 and stayed with that program the rest of...

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Larry Racies had a long career in CBS radio and later, television, starting in 1940. He was part of the small crew that started CBS-TV in the mid-1940s at WCBW in New York City. He became one of...

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Joseph and Shirley Wershba both worked at CBS in the 1940s and beyond. They started in radio and Joe later transitioned to television. They were both involved in the famous Edward R. Murrow "See...

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John Hammerslough worked at CBS-TV in New York City in 1950, starting in the mailroom and then messenger before he was called up for the Korean War. When he got out of the military, he went back...

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Don Hewitt is best known as the creator and producer of CBS's "60 Minutes," the most successful program in American television history. 20 years before the launch of "60 Minutes," Hewitt was one...

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Frances Buss Buch was one of the first television directors in American television history. She started at the CBS television station in New York City, WCBW in 1941 at the start of commercial...

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Chester Burger had a long career in public relations. Before that, he was part of the early CBS television news efforts in the mid-1950s. He was one of the first reporters on television and his...

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Henry Cassirer lived through two world wars, played an important role in Great Britain and United States Broadcasting, and later expanded the use of radio and TV around the world for UNESCO. As a...

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Robert Skedgell had a long career with CBS. Most of his time was in network radio, but he has the distinction of being one of the first television news writers in history. He was part of the...

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Walter Cronkite was one of the most important journalists of the 20th Century. He was a celebrated World War II correspondent for the United Press wire service. He later transitioned to television...

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Larry Hatteberg is one of the greatest storytellers in American television history. He spent more than 50 years at KAKE-TV in Wichita, KS as a photojournalist/reporter, among many other duties. ...

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