Clarke Ingram is a

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personality and programming executive. Ingram is best known in his home market (and hometown) of

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Career

Ingram was formerly the program director of two Pittsburgh stations,

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WBZZ (now

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) and "Jammin' Oldies" WJJJ (now country

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). He also served as program director of

stations

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and

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, operations manager of top 40 KZZP in

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, and as an on-air personality at top 40

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(Z-100) in

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and other radio stations including WBZZ,

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, and the former WXKX/WHTX (now

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), all in Pittsburgh. He also was operations manager and program director at suburban WKHB/

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(owned by Broadcast Communications Inc.) for several years. While the bulk of Ingram's career was in top 40 radio, he moved into

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in his later years, and hosted weekend oldies shows on WWSW-FM and WKHB/WKFB. Saying it was "the first step on the road to my retirement", Ingram relinquished his remaining duties at Broadcast Communications Inc. in 2011. In 2013, Ingram returned to radio as consultant to Pittsburgh-area station WZUM, for which he developed an

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format. Three years later, the station was sold and changed to a jazz format. In 2019, Ingram announced that "whatever time (he had) left on this earth" would be largely devoted to television history and preservation. With assistance from fellow historian and preservationist Sean Cogan, he launched a

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channel called "Free The Kinescopes", which features rarely seen TV shows, including many from Ingram's collection.

Awards and recognition

* In 1995, Ingram was named one of the top 40 "Top 40 DJs of All Time" (ranked #38) by

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, a radio enthusiasts' club publishing a monthly newsletter. The list was published in the

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on September 5, 1995. * Ingram won radio industry "Program Director of the Year" awards three times, twice from the Gavin Seminar for Media Professionals, and once from the Bobby Poe Pop Music Survey.

Other activities

* Ingram is recognized as an expert on the defunct

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, and maintained an extensive website devoted to the subject.The original domain names expired in 2021 when Ingram was seriously ill, and were not renewed. A companion website on the ''History of UHF Television'' was also affected. The content was restored in 2022 t
uhfhistory.com
(hosted by David Gleason at World Radio History) an
dumonthistory.com
* Ingram was also a leading force in a grassroots protest to get the

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Television Network to reconsider its cancellation of the program

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, which it announced in May 2007. Ingram was referred to as a "save-the-show campaign leader" by columnist Rob Owen of the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.'' In response, the producers gave Ingram an onscreen tribute in the penultimate scene of the series' final episode in 2008.

References

External links

Aircheck of Clarke Ingram on KZZP, Phoenix, August 1986, posted at airchexx.com

Aircheck of Clarke Ingram on WKHB, Irwin, PA (serving the greater Pittsburgh market), posted at airchexx.com
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