Former WBST staff announcer and network television late-night TV show host David Letterman is the 2017 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.  The Kennedy Center made the announcement, Tuesday.  The 70-year-old Ball State graduate hosted more than 6,000 episodes of late-night talk shows on NBC and CBS between 1982 and 2015. Letterman retired from “The Late Show” on CBS, two years ago.

While a student at Ball State in the late 1960s, Letterman was an announcer on the university’s WBST, today the flagship station of Indiana Public Radio.