Bill Frink started his career in 1941 at WTRC in Elkhart, Indiana, as a radio sports announcer while still in high school.

For WCFL, he re-created White Sox games for radio broadcast from statistics provided on ticker tape machines.

In 1979, Frink spent ten weeks at ABC in New York before returning to Chicago to work for WGN Radio and TV until 1984.

In 2018, Frink was posthumously honored with the prestigious Silver Circle Award given by the Chicago / Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).

Frink retired in 1991 to Evanston, Illinois, where he volunteered at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian and the Reading Room of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist.