Walt Bodine
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| Walt Bodine | |
|---|---|
| Born | Walton Marshall Bodine August 27, 1920 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Occupation | Radio broadcaster, writer |
| Years active | 1940 - present |
| Employer | KCUR (since 1983) |
| Home town | Kansas City |
| Website | |
| http://www.kcur.org/programs/waltbodineshow | |
Walton Marshall "Walt" Bodine (born August 27, 1920 in Kansas City, Missouri), better known as Walt Bodine, is a broadcast journalist in Kansas City, Missouri. Since 1983 he has hosted the talk radio show The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR, the Kansas City area's NPR member station.
He is the author of several books, including What Do You Say to That? (1988, ISBN 0-933701-36-5) and My Times, My Town (2003, ISBN 0-9746012-4-1).
In My Times, My Town Bodine commented on the philosophy behind the stories he has covered during his career:[page needed]
"For too long news directors have operated on the theory, 'If it bleeds, it leads.' Maybe they should consider that the audience requires something more than blood and gore and sex. Can it really be that the only thing that interests us is human misbehavior? ...Emphasis put on the daily bucket of blood does nothing to answer the broad array of serious problems facing the nation, the states and the city."
[edit] Stations employed (beginning compilation)
He began his broadcasting career in 1940 at KDRO, Sedalia, Missouri. In 1942, moved to KCKN (defunct) The Kansas City Kansan newspaper's station, Kansas City, Kansas. Then...years uncertain, but in order: WDAF-AM, Kansas City, Missouri. (Best known for coverage of the Ruskin Heights killer tornado May 20, 1957.) WDAF-TV (NBC/Channel 4)- among the first TV news anchors at Kansas City's first television station. WHB-AM - Hosted one of the nation's first daily radio talk shows, "Night Beat", 10 pm-1am, Monday-Friday. WHB was the flagship of the chain of Todd Storz stations and the talk show was considered "experimental" when Storz began a Rock-N-Roll format at WHB, Kansas City, Missouri. KMBZ-AM, Kansas City, Missouri. Hosted "Bodine's Beat", week night call-in talk show, 8pm-Midnight. Moved to KCUR-FM (the NPR station of the University of Missouri-Kansas City) in 1982 as host of The Walt Bodine Show. Since 2010, he has cut back his air time to Friday mornings due to health concerns.
[edit] Awards
Bodine has received several awards, including:
- Truman Community Service Award for 2005 from the city of Independence, Missouri
- Bishop John J. Sullivan Award for Communications from Catholic Charities of Kansas City-Saint Joseph
- Kansas City Spirit Award for 1987
- "Outstanding Kansas Citian of the Year - 1990" from the Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City
[edit] External links and sources
- The Walt Bodine Show on the KCUR website, with streaming audio
- Books and articles written by Bodine from the Kansas City Public Library
- Profile of Walt Bodine from KCUR
- Profile of the 83-year-old Bodine from Meara Welch Browne. a CPA firm's website
- "Crystal Sets to Satellite Service...A Pictoral History of KCKN Radio, 1925 to Present" ISBN 0-9636863-7-2. Author: Joe H. Vaughan. Publisher: Publishing Specialists, Inc., Lenexa, Kansas. 1997.
