Walter Wharton "Ward" McIntyre, Jr (1930 – July 20, 2007) was a television and radio personality from

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...

. A graduate of

Ramsay High School Ramsay High School is a four-year magnet high school in Birmingham, Alabama. It is one of seven high schools in the Birmingham City School System and one of three International Baccalaureate schools in the Birmingham metropolitan area. Originally ...

and Birmingham-Southern College, he worked at WSGN radio before he was hired by WBRC in 1962 to take over as announcer, newscaster, and Bozo the Clown. He remained at the station until 1968, when he returned to radio, where he remained until his retirement from

WBHM WBHM (90.3 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama. The station is licensed to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where it maintains its radio studios on 11th Street South. WBHM features programming from Na ...

in the 1990s.

References

* Walton, Val (July 22, 2007) "Walter McIntyre, city's `Bozo,' dies." ''Birmingham News''.
Ward McIntyre
article at BhamWiki.com

External links

* 1930 births 2007 deaths Television anchors from Birmingham, Alabama Ramsay High School alumni {{US-tv-bio-stub