Case Ian Punnett was an American radio broadcaster, author, professor, and ordained Episcopal deacon.
31 Facts About Ian Punnett
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On December 3,2011, Punnett announced that due to increasingly acute tinnitus, he would temporarily step down as regular Saturday night host of Coast to Coast AM, being replaced by John B Wells: effective January 2012, Punnett would host the show one Sunday per month.
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In July 2013, Ian Punnett ended his radio hosting career in order to begin studies for a doctoral degree.
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Ian Punnett attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a student columnist for the Daily Illini.
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Ian Punnett graduated in 1988, with a degree in English literature and rhetoric.
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Ian Punnett has a Master of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and has been ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Church.
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Ian Punnett entered the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University as a Ph.
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Ian Punnett received his doctorate from Arizona State in 2017, after writing a dissertation titled "Toward a Theory of True Crime: Forms and Functions of Nonfiction Murder Narratives".
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In between his Quad Cities stints, Ian Punnett was morning man on WMJY in Long Branch, New Jersey.
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Ian Punnett went on to talk radio at WGN in Chicago in 1993, continuing to work there until 1996.
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Ian Punnett then went to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997 to host a nightly talk show on WGST under his real name, Ian Punnett.
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Ian Punnett returned to the WKDF morning show in 1998, although he remained in Atlanta and broadcast the show from his home studio.
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In Minneapolis-St Paul, Ian Punnett hosted the morning show on KTMY-FM from 2002 until 2012.
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Ian Punnett's final show on the station was on December 21,2012, after which he left due to tinnitus.
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In 1998, Ian Punnett began occasionally hosting Coast to Coast AM.
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Ian Punnett was the first person other than Art Bell to be "given" a night of the week in his or her name.
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In December, 2001, Punnett left Coast to Coast AM with Ian Punnett to do mornings in the Twin Cities for Hubbard Broadcasting and to concentrate on finishing seminary.
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Coast to Coast AM with Ian Punnett returned to the weekly line-up, this time on Saturdays.
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On January 21,2006, after the death of Ramona Bell, Ian Punnett announced that Art Bell, the creator and original host of Coast to Coast AM would be returning from retirement to host each Saturday and Sunday night.
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On December 3,2011, Punnett announced that due to increasing problems with his tinnitus, that he would have to step down as regular Saturday night host of Coast to Coast AM, being replaced by John B Wells.
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In January 2012, Ian Punnett began hosting the show one Sunday per month.
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On May 16,2013, Ian Punnett announced on the air with George Noory that he would no longer be hosting Coast to Coast one Sunday per month.
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Ian Punnett hosted his then-last show on July 14,2013, his 479th episode over 13 years.
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Ian Punnett met his wife, Margery, while the two were working at the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Ian Punnett suffered from tinnitus, which he first began experiencing in 2009.
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In 2010, Ian Punnett published a children's book, Dizzy the Mutt with the Propeller Butt.
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Ian Punnett's goal was to illustrate with examples from the Bible how expressing anger is acceptable, even anger towards God.
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Ian Punnett taught multimedia journalism at Ohio Northern University from 2016- 17.
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Ian Punnett was later a faculty member at Kansas State University beginning in 2018, and chief operator of the campus radio station Wildcat 91.9 FM.
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Ian Punnett died on December 22,2023, at the age of 63.
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In October 2023, Ian Punnett was inducted into the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.