{"id":3497,"date":"2016-02-04T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?page_id=3497"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:00:25","slug":"susie-and-ray-bredemann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?page_id=3497","title":{"rendered":"Susie and Ray Bredemann"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Susie<\/a><\/p>\n

(Martha) Susie Meyers Bredemann and Ray Bredemann have died, Sue in 2015 and Ray in 2011.<\/p>\n

At WIDB, Sue was on-air as \u201cSpacey Stacey Brennan.\u201dShe was the first female to get a regular daytime jock shift. Listen to this excerpt from her very first show.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Susie-Meyers-first-show-excerpt-good.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Sue also was the first female to do \u201cPillowtalk,\u201d then a special Friday and Saturday night program.<\/p>\n

At WIDB, Ray was \u201cRay Allen\u201d and did newscasts.\u00a0 He spent far more time at WSIU TV, as an “in the field” film producer, on-camera, and writing.\u00a0 He went on to an illustrious career as a reporter, producer, and Assignment Editor in TV news departments. KDUB Dubuque IA, WHIO Peoria IL, WRTV Indianapolis IN.<\/p>\n

Ray and Sue met during the time she started at WIDB in 1970.\u00a0 Ray had been at WIDB since the beginning, as he was at WBHR (Boomer Hall Pirate station).\u00a0 He grew up on Chicago\u2019s North Side.\u00a0 Sue was born in Hurst, Illinois (near DuQuoin) but moved up to Lansing, Il, and attended Thornton Fractional South, where her locker was near Frank Mazzocco, future WIDB News Director.<\/p>\n

Ray was working at Trueblood Food Service when Sue noticed him, according to Debbie Mazzocco (Frank\u2019s wife), who attended Junior High with Sue.<\/p>\n

Perhaps not consciously so, Sue broke ground for women at WIDB.\u00a0 Before starting her regular top-40 shift, Sue, along with Kay Kessler (air name \u201cJennifer\u201d), took over Dan Mordini\u2019s show he created, \u201cPillowtalk.\u201d Dan was leaving at the end of December, 1970.\u00a0 He reports that Sue was coming in during his shows (on Friday and Saturday nights starting at 1 am) and asking if she could engineer (board-op) for him.\u00a0 This led to her \u201con-air audition\u201d in December.<\/p>\n

Dan had to convince then-WIDB Operations Director Tom Scheithe (who at that time was affectionately known as \u201cHatchet Man\u201d) to let Sue take over the show.\u00a0 Dan reports that Tom was \u201creluctant.\u201d But when Dan pointed out that it was essentially a \u201cgraveyard shift\u201d and asked who else he could get, Tom relented.<\/p>\n

Only a short time later, Tom said it was \u201csmart\u201d to have women doing Pillowtalk, according to Pat Niekamp, (air name \u201cPatti J\u201d), who took over Sue\u2019s Pillowtalk shift when Sue left in late 1971.<\/p>\n

Sue and Ray left WIDB in 1971.\u00a0They were married in 1973, lived in Indianapolis for many years, and had two children, Amanda and Steve.<\/p>\n

One of the last times we saw them in C\u2019dale was in 1985.\u00a0 Although Ray is not in this, here is a video excerpt of Susie dancing with Woody at the 1985 Reunion Pool party.<\/p>\n