The St. Louis Media Hall of Fame is set to enshrine its class of 2024, and KMOX health and religion editor Fred Bodimer is one of 11 members to be enshrined.
Bodimer has been with the Audacy St. Louis station since 1982, and has covered important health and religious moments in the city, including Pope John Paul II’s visit 25 years ago.
During an appearance on the station’s Total Information AM, Fred Bodimer said he has had a fantastic run on the station and doesn’t regret a minute of his tenure.
“It’s been worth every day of the 42 years I’ve been here. There’s not a day that I regret being here. There’s not a day that I didn’t wanna come in and the listeners have a lot to do with it,” said Bodimer.
“Whenever I go somewhere, people can recognize my voice. Once they know who I am, they’ve got tons of questions about KMOX and all the truly legendary people that I worked with down through the years, like Bob Hardy, Ann Keefe, Jim White, John McCormick, Carol Daniel, and Charlie Brennan. Just everybody asked me about the people that I work with and that makes it fun because I feel like what I do is appreciated by the listeners.”
He admitted his newsgathering tendencies have changed dramatically since he began in the early 80s.
“When I first started here, it was just typewriters. We would have carbon paper and we would type our news stories with like three pieces of carbon paper and we’d have three copies of the story,” said Bodimer. “There was no internet, so we subscribed to maybe 20 newspapers from around the country and every day I’d go through them and clip things out of the newspapers. If I wanted to get a guest in another city I’d have to call information in that city and try and find a phone number for them.”
Joining Fred Bodimer in the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame class of 2024 is Joe Buck, Clay Felker, Jessica Brown, Ed Scarborough, Dave Nicklaus, and Jim Gallagher of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, public radio’s Linda Lockhart, Judy Newmark, Tim Arnold, and Jim Palumbo.
