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><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.rbr.com/media-news/16343.html">http:// >www.rbr.com/media-news/16343.html</a> > >Ira Apple dead at 74 >2009-08-11 14:02:00 > >Ira Apple, a broadcaster for well over 50 years, died >Tuesday at a hospice facility in Reisterstown, MD. >Apple had suffered a series of aneurisms on the 4th of >July and had lapsed into a coma shortly thereafter, >never regaining consciousness before his death. He was >74. > >Apple began his career at a small radio station in >Kittanning, PA, where he would sign the station on >each morning, then attend high school, followed by a >late afternoon shift to sign off the daytimer. He went >on to become one of the early pioneers of Talk radio >and a programmer, with a collection of call letters >including KDKA-AM and KQV-AM Pittsburgh, WBZ-AM >Boston, WBAL-AM Baltimore and others. > >He served as an Adjunct Professor for Emerson College >in Boston. Apple was honored by President Dwight >Eisenhower and received the prestigious Freedom >Foundation Award in ceremonies at the White House > >In the mid to late 1980s, he became a Regional Sales >Manager for CBSI (Custom Business Systems, Inc.), >covering the major portions or the Eastern United >States and Canada until CBSI was acquired by Wicks. > >Most recently Apple had served as liaison of the >Traffic Directors Guild of America (TDGA) with >executives of the State Broadcaster Associations >across the US.

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