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# Diane Rehm, who hosted a nationally distributed call-in show from news/talk WAMU, being inducted into Inside Radio’s Radio Hall of Fame
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- Published: 2024-05-14T21:42:43.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-14T22:28:56.000Z
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**Diane Rehm, who hosted a nationally distributed call-in show from news/talk pubcaster WAMU Washington, DC (88.5), is being inducted into Inside Radio’s** **Radio Hall of Fame**.

In an Inside Radio interview, she was asked about her first job in radio. She responded: “I began as a volunteer at WAMU in Washington, D.C., in 1973\. The station was non-commercial, licensed to American University. I was on the air the first day I arrived as a volunteer because the host was out sick. My responsibilities included helping the then-host for “Kaleidoscope,” choose topics, book guests and assist with on-air interviews. After 10 months, I was hired as a part-time producer. The station at the time had not yet gained membership in NPR.”

When asked about her fondest career memory, she responded: “There are so many. Working with an outstanding group of women and men who became producers of “The Diane Rehm Show,” helping to take it from a small program to one that NPR named as a program which had a very large draw, bringing in other stations to WAMU because of mine. I did a one-on-one interview with President Clinton in the Oval Room of the White House. I won a personal Peabody Award. I interviewed the actress Audrey Hepburn, Mr. Rogers, Joan Baez, Congressman John Lewis, John Le Carre, Maya Angelou… Among so many wonderful career memories, how could I possibly choose one? When I left the daily microphone to do a weekly podcast and a monthly book club, “The Diane Rehm Show” had a listenership of nearly 3 million.”

Morec [here](https://www.insideradio.com/free/meet-the-radio-hall-of-fame-nominees/article%5F4434a4cc-11cd-11ef-9e98-27e64794f270.html?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).