Walton Marshall Bodine (August 27, 1920 - March 24, 2013) is the most famous American broadcaster and writer for his career in Kansas City, Missouri. Better known as Walt, he is a player in Kansas City that broadcast for seven decades. Still broadcasting into the nineties, Bodine hosted the Walt Bodine Show talk show at KCUR, Kansas City NPR member stations from 1993 to 2012. His last broadcast was "The Walt Bodine Show April 27, 2012.
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Walt Bodine was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Walton Martin and Mary Ethyl (nÃÆ' Â © e Gilmore) Bodine. His father was a pharmacist, encouraging families to move several times around the Kansas City area in the Walt youth to settle in neighborhoods around Linwood and Troost streets. He started working at his father's pharmacy as a teenager, a business that serves the environment as well as famous and famous. Comedian Red Skelton is a customer, like Kansas City's gangster Johnny Lazia, the latter on the same night he was murdered in 1934. Walt Bodine's first experience with broadcasting came when he appeared on Kansas City radio station at the age of eight, bringing a novelty song with his aunt. Bodine attended Westport High School, graduating in 1938. While there she participated in drama classes, a learning skill that would prove valuable in her broadcasting career later. After high school he attended the Jewish Theater Theater Resident Center, intending to become an actor. But the school closed after he only attended one year.
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Careers
With his dream of an acting career damaged by the closure of his theater school, his friends advised Walt Bodine to consider work on the radio. Neighbor, Guy Ruyon, works on the radio and becomes Bodine's mentor. In 1940, his first job in broadcasting came at KDRO, a new low-power AM station in Sedalia, Missouri. Work in Sedalia did not last long, but because Bodine was fired in a few months for mispronouncing baseball player Joe DiMaggio during a sports broadcast. Bodine then moved to KVAK in Atchison, Kansas. After almost a year at Atchison Walt Bodine took a position with KCKN, a station in Kansas City, Kansas owned by Kansas City Kansan newspaper. At this time the United States was involved in World War II and Walt Bodine answered Uncle Sam's call to do his part. Bodine joins the U.S. Maritime Service. Placed in Port Arthur, Texas, Walt Bodine was still busy on the radio during work hours by working part-time at KPAC. Upon his return to Kansas City after the war, he began his career at KCKN before accepting an offer for another station in the city, WDAF.
Walt Bodine spent almost twenty years at the WDAF, working on radio and television stations (WDAF-TV), as an anchorman, anchorman, and finally a news director. He left the WDAF in 1965, moved to WHB radio, hosted popular "Shake Night" and "Shake Night" events from 1965 to 1974, and also became news director on KCIT television stations from 1969 to 1971. In the 1970s, Bodine moved into the advertising business for a short time, working in sales for Fremerman-Papin agents. He immediately returned to his first love, broadcast. On KBMA television, he was the host of "Bodine's Beat" and "41 Thirty" from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The first incarnation of the long running Walt Bodine Show began on KMBZ radio in 1978 and remained until 1982. Bodine began working for KMBC-TV in 1982 and remained there as a commentator until 2001. Kansas City National Public Radio Station, KCUR, became Walt's last radio station in 1983 when it was broadcast there until retirement on 27 April 2012.
Walt Bodine is an eyewitness and voice of information through many important events in the history of Kansas City. Among them floods Kansas City 1951, tornado Ruskin Heights 1957, race riots of 1968, and the Hyatt Hyatt ceiling of 1981 collapsed. Many Kansas residents remember how on the night of the Hyatt Skywalk disaster, Bodine stayed in the air all night providing news updates and receiving calls from bereaved citizens. Given some opportunities to move to larger broadcasting markets such as St. Louis, Missouri, and Los Angeles, California, he always keeps them alive to stay in his hometown.
In addition to broadcasts, Walt Bodine often writes newspaper or Op-Ed columns for the Squire newspaper for years on many subjects. He also wrote or wrote several books including Right Here in River City: Portrait of Kansas City with Tracy Thomas in 1976 (ISBNÃ, 0385007132), What Do You Say That Is? , published in 1989, and 2003 My Times, My Town . (ISBNÃ, 0974601241).
In My Times, My Town Bodine commented on the philosophy behind the stories she covered during her career:
Because too many news directors are operationalizing this theory, 'If it dries up, it leads.' Maybe they should consider that the audience needs something more than blood and thick blood and sex. Could it be that the only thing that interests us is human behavior?... The emphasis of putting on a daily bucket of blood does nothing to address the many serious problems facing the nation, state and city.
Last year
Walt Bodine's broadcasting career was increasingly affected by poor health in the first decade of the 21st century. Retinitis pigmentosa makes her blind and her knees make her have to sit in a wheelchair. In his final years, he also suffered a loss of memory. Bodine has reduced her performance on radio since 2010, hosting the show only on Friday. Finally in April 2012, he made the last radio broadcast and sign-off. His wife Bernadine died in 2003. Bodine spent her last days in a treatment center assisted in Prairie Village, Kansas. Walt Bodine died at a treatment center assisted on March 24, 2013. His body was donated to the University of Kansas Medical Center for use in scientific research.
Awards
Bodine has received several awards, including:
- Truman Community Service Award for 2005 from the city of Independence, Missouri
- Bishop John J. Sullivan's Award for Communications from Kansas City-Saint Joseph Catholic Charities
- Kansas City Spirit Award for 1987
- "Kansas Embassy of the Year - 1990" from the Original Children and Girls of Kansas City
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