How Many Television Sport Anchors Can You Name in Your Market?

I posted something on another thread about the decline in viewing of local news.

I used to know the names of both the weekday and week anchors at all the stations in my market.

Now I don't know the name of any. I can't remember when I last watched the local sports show.

 

I never watch local news/sports reports either, but I’m in the LA market and Jim Hill and Fred Roggin have been on the air 40 some years each.

He was the king, but Hill should have hung it up a decade ago. You can play a drinking game off all the names he mispronounces.

 

THAT'S FOR SURE!!!

 

In Denver without straining my brain too much, I got Romi Bean. That's it. Unless you count Vic Lombardi, but I don't think you can anymore since he is neither really an anchor or on a true local channel. But maybe you can in today's environment.

I sometimes watch the Sunday sports shows. More for end-of-weekend background noise. Might more if the Broncos were any good.

 

I remember listening to Fred Roggin being interviewed on a talk show when he first started at KNBC. It was on my first vacation after college and actually, outside of trips to the Minnesota and Yellowstone, the first vacation to someplace other than a relative. It is hard for me to believe it was 42 years ago.

 

Of the two stations in this market that have a local news operation, only one has a sports segment, so ...

 

One. And that's because he's a complete blowhard who thinks he can grab players and such for interviews before everyone else at the D-I program.

 

Dale Hansen (no relation) of Channel 8 retired to his South Dallas fortress a few years ago. Mike Doocy is still at Channel 4 and Keith Russell has been at Channel 11 the last 8 years, but I have no idea if Newy Scruggs is still on air at Channel 5 or not.

 

Two of our three 30-year-plus sports anchors retired over the past year or so. I have no idea who replaced them. I know the other one only because he occasionally has a report from the night before on the 6 a.m. news I watch.

 

The only sports anchor I can name is a guy 300 miles away who was my assistant sports editor at the college paper almost 25 years ago.

And, looking him up just now, I see that he recently moved to the news side.

So, back to zero.