2002 |
Houdini Museum, Travel Channel |
2001 |
"Modern Day Houdini", 1 Hour Special (World Wide Distribution) |
2001 |
91.1FM Upgrade from 300 watts to 3,000 Watts |
2000 |
"Shirk Profile" TBS, Ripley's Believe It Or Not |
2000 |
Sold Shirk, Inc. / IBL,LLC for $40 Million |
2000 |
"Narrow Escapes" Discovery Channel |
1999 |
"World's Most Amazing Videos" NBC escape segment |
1999 |
"Without Warning" Feature on The Learning Channel, Cable |
1999 |
"Extra", NBC syndication feature story on escape artists |
1999 |
IBL,LLC Received license from FCC for W65DW, Indianapolis |
1998 |
HBC Received liscense from FCC for 91.1FM, Lebanon |
1998 |
FOX Network "When Good Times Go Bad" |
1998 |
Hoosier Broadcasting Corp. (Director) |
1998 |
Montel Williams Show |
1997 |
IBL,LLC Purchased 100.9FM Lebanon |
1997 |
3 Appearances on "Real TV" |
1997 |
FOX Network "When Stunts Go Bad" |
1996 |
"Shirk-Houdini Halloween Special", (World Wide TV Distribution) |
1995 |
IBL,LLC (LMA) Purchased 106.7FM Greenwood |
1994 |
IBL,LLC Received license from FCC for W53AV, Indpls. |
1993 |
96 Hour Burial with snake and a spider - Raised $5000. for Boy Scouts. |
1992 |
7-Ton Dirt Cement Burial (broadcast on "A Current Affair") |
1991 |
Shirk, Inc Received license from FCC for 96.3 FM Indpls. |
1989 |
Founded The Bill Shirk School Of Broadcasting. Accredited by The Indiana Commission On Proprietary Education |
1988 |
Shirk, Inc. Received night time broadcasting authorization 117 watts from FCC for 950AM |
1985 |
Reversed FCC's decision to delete FM 96.3 from the 80-90 docket, Indpls Market |
1983 |
"THE ESCAPIST" distributed and sold to many different countries, including the United States and Canada. (was one of only four independents sold into the Japanese market) |
1982 |
Produced, wrote and starred in "THE ESCAPIST" (first motion picture ever entirely produced in the state of Indiana) |
1981 |
Japanese Television Special that was produced in San Francisco titled: "Bill Shirk - Number One Escape Artist In The World |
1980 |
Featured act on NBC Television "Games People Play" (handcuffed and chained while hanging from a burning rope over a pool of thirty sharks) |
1979 |
Featured act on ABC Television "Guinness Book of World Records Show" (world record time and height for escaping from a strait jacket while hanging beneath a helicopter 1,800 feet in the air) |
1978 |
Featured article in Saturday Evening Post "BILL SHIRK: Loaded for Dare" |
1977 |
"Buried Alive" for 79 hours with a ten foot python, two tarantulas and a rattle snake. World wide coverage and a donation from President Jimmy Carter. Raised $10,000.00 for Marion County Association for Retarded Citizens. |
1976-1980 |
Set eight world records in Escapology from fastest time escaping from a strait jacket (record 4.53 seconds) to world record jail break. |
1974 |
Shirk, Inc. purchased 950AM, Indianapolis |
1965 |
Family received license for 990AM, Muncie, IN |
1963 |
Set H.S. scoring record for single game in Basketball (record stood until 1985)
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