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

[MTM]

Roggin, Hill, Nahan, Olbermann ... even Scott St. James.

I won 2 tickets to a Kings game after answering Scott's nightly trivia question (who snapped the Lakers' 33-game win streak in '71?)

Tickets were for the Blackhawks game. Kings scored a minute into the game. Blackhawks won 6 to 3 or 4.

Future Dodgers announcer Ross Porter, backed up by Bryant Gumbel, we're on KNBC in the early 70s. They were on a news team with Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder and Kelly Lange, who all went national.

 

[ChrisLong]

A few thoughts on that article...

1) Jeez, it's been a long time since I've actually seen Fred Roggin. I would not have recognized him. (Not that he looks bad -- I just realize my view of him is frozen in the mid-80s.)

2) I think his view of how other stations do sports is outdated by a good 20+ years. I don't think anyone is doing scores and highlights now. He was certainly on the front end of that change, though.

3) One thing that article doesn't mention that he deserves credit for: Roggin was largely the originator of the "viral video." He had a segment where he would run funny home videos that people would send in to him. "America's Funniest Home Videos" then lifted the idea for a weekly show, and that eventually begat Twitter/Instagram/TikTok content. The first time I ever saw a dad get whacked in the nuts with a wiffle ball bat was on Roggin's show.

If you went to a lot of games, you still wouldn't recognize him. He has been seriously criticized for never going to games. The hot rumor always was that he has never been to Angel Stadium and doesn't even know where Anaheim is.
Nahan and Hill were always there.

 

[MTM]

If you went to a lot of games, you still wouldn't recognize him. He has been seriously criticized for never going to games. The hot rumor always was that he has never been to Angel Stadium and doesn't even know where Anaheim is.
Nahan and Hill were always there.

Roggin went to Anaheim Stadium at least once. Or tried to. I saw him on the side on the road with a flat tire near the stadium as I was headed to an Angels game in the early 80s.

And Nahan was there, but rarely seen once the dinner buffet closed.

 

[MileHigh]

We were a Channel 4 family, but there were so many on-air people at several stations who were good in the late 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s.

Jerry Dunphy at KABC, then later KCAL -- "From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, a good evening."

Hal Fishman at KTLA, co-anchoring with Jann Carl, with Stan Chambers in the field.

Jim Lampley was at KCBS and co-anchored with his wife, Bree Walker.

The weather folks. Dr. George at KABC, Fritz Coleman, Dallas Raines

 

[Cosmo]

The NBC and ABC stations in my market dropped sports, so the only one left standing is the CBS affiliate, which has two anchors. (The FOX affiliate basically just shares the staff from the NBC affiliate so nothing to see there.)

 

[LanceyHoward]

We were a Channel 4 family, but there were so many on-air people at several stations who were good in the late 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s.

Jerry Dunphy at KABC, then later KCAL -- "From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, a good evening."

Jerry Dunphy was the color analyst on the Packers broadcast with Ray Scott in 1956. I know no one care but I love to impart useless information.

 

[Songbird]

Jerry Dunphy

He was one of KABC's news anchors during my formative years.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The only one in my area I'm familiar with is the weekend anchor on the NBC affiliate
She's a big fan
Wears Bucs red and Lightning blue