Ian Bush

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Ian Bush is a morning drive anchor at KYW Newsradio and serves as the station’s main special events presenter.

Ian joined the KYW airstaff in 2005 after starting in 2002 as a desk/production assistant. In 2008, he was named one of national radio’s ’30 Under 30′ by Edison Media Research. Now, sadly, he’s over 30.

Ian was KYW’s first technology editor, but his broadcast work is diverse: among his Edward R. Murrow Awards are honors for sports coverage and for the innovative music-and-news program Month in Sound.

Before having to set his alarm for an undignified hour, he spent 18 years as a utility player at KYW, anchoring, reporting, writing, and editing newscasts. In 2019, Ian took over afternoon drive anchoring duties full-time and was named host of Reporters Roundup. A year later, he shifted to Philadelphia’s Morning News and helped launch KYW on 103.9 FM. Ian is the station’s lead presenter of special coverage, including Election Night in Philadelphia, and, less often, sports championship parades.

Ian is a 2004 graduate of Villanova University. A proud Wildcat, he has served as one of the voices of the Villanova Men’s Basketball team. He was news director at the campus radio station, WXVU-FM, where his documentary ‘Voices of Reading’ earned the first AP award for station. He received his master’s degree from Villanova in 2006 and has the distinction of being the first to graduate from the school’s new master’s program in communication.

Ian got his start in broadcasting by anchoring local news on the public radio station WDIY-FM in Bethlehem, PA, while he was a student at Notre Dame High School Green Pond. But the radio bug bit much earlier: Ian recalls defying his parents’ go-to-bed orders by sneaking an AM radio under his pillow, where fast favorites became Yankees baseball broadcasts, David Brudnoy, and Art Bell. An only child, Ian attempted to amuse himself by broadcasting political news on a karaoke machine to the Lego town that took up most of the basement. In grammar school, he’d try to spice up afternoon PA announcements with time checks and weather updates — ‘I’m surprised the kids didn’t beat me up,’ he says.

Ian wishes he remained an avid swimmer (but at least he still floats). He coached several USA Swimming Nationals qualifiers and Penn-Jersey League championship teams. Ian’s top tip for swimmers: don’t bite your nails (he lost the state backstroke championship by nine-hundredths of a second).