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Case Ian Punnett (born March 3, 1960 in Wilmette, Illinois) is an American radio broadcaster, author, and Episcopalian deacon. Punnett hosted a morning show, ''Ian and Margery'', with his wife on KTMY in Minneapolis-St. Paul,〔http://mytalk1071.com/showpage.php?show=ianmargery〕 and was the regular Saturday night host of the widely syndicated paranormal-themed ''Coast to Coast AM'', created by Art Bell. On December 3, 2011, Punnett announced that due to increasingly acute tinnitus, he would temporarily step down as regular Saturday night host of Coast to Coast AM, being replaced by John B. Wells: effective January 2012, Punnett would host the show one Sunday per month. In July 2013, Punnett ended his radio hosting career in order to begin studies for a doctoral degree. ==Life== Punnett graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was a student columnist for the ''Daily Illini''. After college, under the pseudonym "Ian Case" (his first and middle names transposed), he co-hosted rock morning radio shows on WXLP in the Quad Cities called ''Ian Case and the Coach'' and then ''Ian Case and The Duke'' with Mike "The Duke" Donegan on then-rock music station WKDF in Nashville, Tennessee in the early-to-mid-1990s. In between his Quad Cities stints, Punnett was also morning man on WMJY in Long Branch, New Jersey. Punnett went on to talk radio at WGN in Chicago in 1994, then went to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997 to host a nightly talk show on WGST under his real name, Ian Punnett. He returned to the WKDF morning show in 1998, though he remained in Atlanta and broadcast the show from his home studio (while co-host Mike "Duke" Donegan broadcast from the station's Nashville studio). Punnett would occasionally slip up and announce his real name instead of the pseudonym, which inadvertently became a running gag. That show's run came to an end in early 1999, shortly before WKDF switched to a country music format. In Minneapolis-St. Paul, Punnett hosts the morning show (6-10 am) on KTMY-FM. The show is known as ''Ian & Margery'', and is co-hosted by his wife, Margery (a former TV producer who has worked for CNN as well as for ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'') who does her part of the show from a studio in their home while getting their two teenage boys off to school. Punnett has a Master of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and has been ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Church. Since 1998, Punnett has intermittently hosted ''Coast to Coast AM''. On August 1, 2007, Punnett helped report the Minneapolis bridge collapse on CNN. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Punnett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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