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covering politics. Most of the political reporters that we deal with who are really talented... tend to be in print journalism. There is one real exception to that: Dave
Nakdimen. Dave was the only expert political reporter I ever met in local television. He had a distinguished career. We will all miss him greatly. He is a man of great principle...".
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earned a hall of fame reputation from his viewers and his colleagues alike. Dave was a trusted voice broadcasting some of
Louisville’s biggest stories. He helped inform views on politics, housing and civil rights. Through it all, Dave brought integrity and principle to every aspect of his work, plus his signature dry wit".
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Nakdimen broke the story of the collapse of
Louisville's Prudential Savings and American Building loan associations in the 1970s. Nakdimen also covered the Louisville area floods of 1964 and 1997, the 1978 blizzard, the open housing demonstrations of 1967, the tornados of 1974 and 1996, the Jefferson
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Known as "Dave
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Louisville / Jefferson County reorganization was predicted by all local television news departments as "an easy win". However, the referendum was "too close to call" four hours after the polls had closed. By 10:30 pm that evening, with 98% of the vote counted, the merger had
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TV critic said "Dave (Nakdimen) has done one helluva good job". Written, filmed, edited and narrated by
Nakdimen, the documentary earned praise for its deft use of humor to illustrate the challenges then facing the revitalization of Louisville. When Mayor Kenneth Schmied said on camera he didn't
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At his daughter's suggestion, Nakdimen started acting in the
Mummers and Minstrels, an Anchorage, Kentucky-based volunteer performance group. He said "The first time I went on stage, it scared the hell out of me... there's no question that memorizing lines keeps you using your brain rather than
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offered a tribute to
Nakdimen on the US Senate floor on July 31, 1997, saying "I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Dave Nakdimen, an outstanding newsman, who retired after a wonderful career in television news... in the world of television news it is extremely difficult to develop expertise in
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newspaper, attorney Harry A. Triplett said of
Nakdimen "Dave Nakdimen's retirement as a news reporter for WAVE TV will cause a void in the profession. He had a reputation among those who frequent the Courthouse, City Hall and the Hall of Justice as a 'straight arrow'. He was honest, fair and
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during an open housing march in Louisville during the 1960s. After the interview, Nakdimen discovered his film camera hadn't correctly recorded the audio of the interview. "So when King came around the block again, we asked him if he'd do the interview over and he was nice enough to do it".
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Nakdimen's reporting professionalism and expertise quickly earned him the political reporter position at WAVE TV. Nakidimen covered Louisville and Jefferson County government, the Kentucky legislature, along with gubernatorial and other state and national elections for WAVE TV for 36 years.
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and was a member of the faculty of the University of Kentucky English Department from 1949 to 1979. Nakdimen was a member of the University of Kentucky's billiard team. Nakdimen and the team placed eighth in the National Intercollegiate Billiard tournament held February 23, 1954.
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Nakdimen provided live and recorded remote coverage of the July 1984 Democratic national convention held in San Francisco, California for WAVE TV News. Additional commentary was provided by then WAVE anchor Don Schroeder who accompanied Nakdimen on the trip.
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In 1982, Nakdimen moderated a cable news show discussing the effort to reorganize the city of Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky as a combined metro government entity. Then County Judge Mitch McConnell and Louisville Mayor
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1997 – Jefferson Cup, Jefferson County (Kentucky) Fiscal Court. Jefferson County Judge Executive Dave Armstrong called Nakdimen "the icon of local news", saying "the community has come to rely on the credibility of his
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as a Journalism student, where he performed research, collecting folklore in 1954 for William Hugh Jansen. Jansen had received the third Doctorate in Folklore in the United States from the
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When asked if he would repeat his thirty-six year career as a political reporter, Nakdimen said "I think so. I really enjoyed it. It was a lot of hard work, but it was a lot of fun too".
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Nakdimen offered commentary from time to time during WAVE TV News newscasts both before and after his retirement. He ended each one by saying "...that’s my opinion. I’m Dave Nakdimen".
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2011 – Silver Circle Award, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, "recognizing lasting contributions to the TV industry in the Ohio Valley Region"
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David Abie Nakdimen was born in Rocky Station, Lee County, Virginia on June 28, 1933, the second of Lucy (née Steelman) and Abe Nakdimen's four children.
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Nakdimen was a panelist in the October 8, 1984 Kentucky senatorial debate between Mitch McConnell and then Senator
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objective and never an iconoclast. He is a splendid role model for those who are and aspire to be reporters".
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sitting on the sofa and being a spud". By 2011, Nakdimen had appeared in six productions in six years.
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day on radio or TV in my life, but I decided to take a shot at it".
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Nakdimen regularly appeared as a panel commentator on the
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