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Kathleen Hite:
Radio Writer Pioneer
By Stewart Wright ©
(From Radio Recall, August )

Kathleen Hite traced her roots to pioneering family members who helped settle the West.

She was a pioneer in her own right, becoming the first West Coast-based woman CBS radio script writer. After penning approximately radio scripts, she would become a highly successful writer for television.

Hite was born June 17, and raised in Kansas.

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She credits her ambition to become a writer to her grandmother who told wonderful stories about Kansas and the West in the 19th century. Other family members, including her father and grandfather related additional narratives about their adventures in the West involving prospecting, mining, and ranching.

These stories provided background for her radio and later, television scripts.

Upon graduation from the University of Wichita in , Hite worked as a continuity writer for NBC affiliate KANS in Wichita. She decided to try to become a network radio scrip