Clarke Ingram

Clarke Ingram

Clarke Ingram is a United States radio personality and programming executive.

Ingram is best known in his home market and hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most recently, he was employed at Pittsburgh-area stations WKHB (620) and WKFB (770), which program a mixture of talk shows and oldies. The stations, along with FM sister station WKVE, are owned by Broadcast Communications, Inc.

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Career

Ingram was formerly Program Director of two Pittsburgh stations, top 40 WBZZ (now KDKA-FM) and "Jammin' Oldies" WJJJ (now talk WPGB). He also served as Program Director of top 40 stations WPXY in Rochester, New York and KRQQ in Tucson, Arizona, Operations Manager of top 40 KZZP in Phoenix, Arizona, and as an on-air personality at top 40 WHTZ (Z-100) in New York City and other radio stations including WBZZ, WWSW-FM, and the former WXKX/WHTX, all in Pittsburgh. [1] He also was Operations Manager and Program Director at WKHB/WKFB for several years.

While the bulk of Ingram's career was in top 40 radio, he moved into oldies in his later years and hosted weekend shows on both WWSW-FM and WKHB. Saying it was "the first step on the road to my retirement," Ingram relinquished his remaining duties at Broadcast Communications Inc. in late 2011.

Awards and recognition

  • In 1995, Ingram was named one of the top 40 "Top 40 DJs of All Time" (ranked #38) by Decalcomania, a radio enthusiasts' club publishing a monthly newsletter. The list was published in the New York Daily News 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 also from the Bobby Poe Pop Music Survey.

Other activities

  • Ingram is recognized as an expert on the defunct DuMont Television Network. He maintains a personal web site devoted to the subject at www.dumonthistory.tv.
  • Ingram was also a leading force in a grassroots protest to get the CBS Television Network to reconsider its cancellation of the program Jericho, which it announced in May 2007. Ingram was part of a group that organized jericholives.com, a website dedicated to saving the show [2], and 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.

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