Hall of Fame Class2024

Dennis Jon Bailey
WIKY Radio Evansville radio personality. For more than 20 years, Bailey has led the Morning Show at 104.1FM WIKY in Evansville, following on-air work in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Boston.

Ardath Burkhart
Civic leader and founder of Indianapolis Public TV broadcaster WFYI. Remembered as WFYI’s “founding mother,” Burkhart led a coalition of thousands of women in Indianapolis who went door-to-door to collect the funds needed to start a public television station in central Indiana.

Debby Knox
WTTV and WISH Indianapolis TV news anchor. A three-time Emmy winner, Knox is a familiar face to Indianapolis viewers as an iconic anchor for news broadcasts at Channel 8 for 33 years and Channel 4 for 8 years.

Tony Lamont
WTLC Radio Indianapolis radio personality. Lamont’s career began in gospel radio and he is long remembered as the morning man on WTLC. He is well known for his efforts to empower young people, through motivational speaking and community action.

Paul Page
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. A longtime Indiana broadcaster who has worked at radio and TV stations throughout central Indiana, Page is best known for his local and network television and radio broadcast roles on race day.

David White
Indianapolis WBRI / WXIR Radio personality and WISH-TV religion news anchor. Best known for his long service in Christian radio, White was the anchor of a weekly religious news program on television. White is immediate past president of the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers.
2025 Hall of Fame Nominations
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. Each year, the Indiana Broadcasters Association inducts a new class of broadcasters into the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. Honorees represent the highest level of professional broadcasting in Indiana and are recognized each fall during the annual Indiana Broadcasters Association “Best in Broadcasting” Spectrum Awards ceremony. Nominations submitted for the past three years will be considered in addition to new submissions.