{"id":3326,"date":"2010-11-02T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2012-11-27T23:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T07:40:19","slug":"david-letterman-started-his-broadcasting-career-as-a-radio-newscaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/david-letterman-started-his-broadcasting-career-as-a-radio-newscaster\/","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman Started His Broadcasting Career as a Radio Newscaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> David Letterman started out his broadcasting career as a radio newscaster.\u00a0 This was at the WBST radio station, which, at the time, was a college run 10 watt radio station and is now an Indiana public radio station.\u00a0 After being fired from that radio station for making fun of classical music, he helped found another campus radio station, WAGO AM 570, which is today WCRD FM 91.3.<\/p>\n

After graduating college, Letterman took another radio job as a radio talk show host on AM WNTS and more famously as a weatherman on the TV station WLWI in Indianapolis, which is now WTHR.\u00a0 His trademarks as a weatherman included: frequently making up cities and reporting made up high and low temperatures and congratulating tropical storms when they were upgraded to hurricanes.<\/p>\n

After doing numerous small-time local TV shows in Indiana, he moved to L.A. in 1975, where he pursued a career in standup comedy and comedy writing.\u00a0 His big break came in 1977 when he did a pilot for a game show called “The Riddlers” that was ultimately not picked up.\u00a0 However, workers at The Tonight Show<\/em> with Johnny Carson saw his performance and he soon became a regular on The Tonight Show<\/em>, eventually even assuming the role as a regular guest host starting in 1978.<\/p>\n

Finally, in 1980, he was given his own show on NBC, which was a morning comedy show, called The David Letterman Show<\/em>, which he won two Emmy Awards for, but was canceled only four months later due to extremely poor ratings.\u00a0 Later, in 1982, NBC tried him at a different time slot, following Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show<\/em>, with a similar style show that ultimately proved a success.<\/p>\n

Bonus<\/span> Facts:<\/p>\n