Ingram was formerly the program director of two Pittsburgh stations, top 40 WBZZ (now KDKA-FM) and "Jammin' Oldies" WJJJ (now country WPGB).
[2] In 2013, Ingram returned to radio as a consultant to Pittsburgh-area station WZUM, for which he developed an urban oldies format.
[4] In 2019, Ingram announced that "whatever time (he had) left on this earth" would be largely devoted to television history and preservation.
By 2014, when his dog Brinkley died, Ingram—once a prolific traveler who had traversed historic U.S. Route 66 several times—was homebound when not hospitalized.
[5] He had spent the last 20 years of his life with numerous major illnesses and was in a long-term rehabilitation facility at the time of his death.