Don Worsham biographical information:

 Don Worsham is an independent mixer, audio engineer and audio consultant based in Los Angeles. He has been active in the entertainment industry since 1966. Los Angeles has been his home since 1977. Don's work as an audio mixer for television has earned him 6 Emmy Awards and 25 Emmy nominations.

            His most recent credits include:

Rolling Stone Live Rolling Stones "Licks World Tour"* HBO

*(2003 Emmy Nomination)      

2003 Grammy Awards                                                 CBS      

Fox Live New Years Eve                                             FOX   

Tim McGraw "Sing Me Home"                                     CBS    

Miss AMERICA                                                          ABC   

Music In High Places                                                    MTV/Direct

  Radio has always been in Don's blood. His first job was as an unpaid announcer at non-commercial WICR radio in Indianapolis in 1964. He was to go on in 1965 to work at WFMS, one of the first stereo FM broadcasters in the United States and WSMJ in Greenfield, Indiana (now WZPL).

He attended Ball State University in Muncie Indiana from 1966 to 1968. While there, he majored in Radio and Television studying under Dr.Darrell Wible. He was a member of the team that started WAGO, a campus carrier current AM radio station.  While attending Ball State, he worked weekends at Top-40 WERK then under the direction of Bill (Poorman) Shirk.

A change in major at Ball State led Don to finish out the college years of 1968-1970 at Indiana University where he earned a Bachelors of  Science in Business. During this two-year period he worked as a news photographer at WISH-TV in Indianapolis and at WIUS, the commercial campus AM carrier current station in Bloomington, Indiana.      

During his college years, and after, he remained active with community radio in Indianapolis.

In 1970, Don started working as an audio mixer and audio engineer for National Teleproductions, an Indianapolis based television facility  company and program producer. This turn away from radio to "Radio With Pictures" was the result of his radio experience, technical knowledge of audio and his experience at WISH-TV.        

Radio jingles have always been an interest of Dons. This grew out of the synergy of radio and Don's interest in music. He is classically trained on trumpet. His musical background has served him well. Over half of his work includes recording and mixing music for television.

In conversations with Tracy Carman, Executive Director of the Media Preservation Foundation, it was clear that most of the information concerning the ID industry was verbal, an oral history, and seemed to contain as much contradiction as fact and a lot of missing pieces.      

It was no accident that Don, after a job in Dallas in 1992, had additional time on his hands. This started the ten year long research project that was to become "The Hits Between The Hits".