Carthage radio pioneer, philanthropist Ruth Kolpin dead at 96

Carthage radio and cable television pioneer Ruth Kolpin Rubison died Saturday at age 96.

Rubison and her family have owned KDMO-AM and KXML-FM in Carthage since 1963.

She was also responsible for bringing cable television to Carthage and other area communities.







She was inducted into the National Cable Television Pioneers Association in 1988 and in 1992 received the international Athena Award. She was the first recipient of the Pioneer Broadcasters Award from MSSU in 1997 and she is a past recipient of the Richard M. Webster Citizen of the Year Award presented by the Carthage Chamber of Commerce.

Missouri Southern television programming comes from the Ruth Kolpin Studio, which was upgraded and modernized to digital technology thanks to her contributions.

A complete obituary will be published later on Inside Joplin Obituaries.