Edwin C. Metcalfe
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Edwin C. Metcalfe
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Edwin C. Metcalfe was a saxophonist and manager of WPTA, who lived in Roanoke, Indiana. Prior to entering the television broadcasting business, Metcalfe was a professional musician. In the 1940s, Metcalfe sang and played woodwinds with the legendary Spike Jones band. Upon his 1974 arrival in Fort Wayne, Metcalfe brought showmanship and sparkle to a tired WPTA news operation, and that, combined with a generous budget, catapulted the station from third place behind the older WANE-TV and WKJG-TV st
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