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

[LanceyHoward]

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.

 

[MileHigh]

I can't remember the last time I watched local news -- and I used to work at one of them.

 

[MTM]

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.

 

[ChrisLong]

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!!!

 

[Roscablo]

I can't remember the last time I watched local news -- and I used to work at one of them.

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.

 

[LanceyHoward]

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.

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.

 

[HanSenSE]

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

 

[Sam Mills 51]

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.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

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.

 

[Bud_Bundy]

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.

 

[MisterCreosote]

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.

 

[MileHigh]

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.

Don't think you can count Vic. Plus, he's on a channel that the vast majority of viewers haven't been able to get for four to five years.

 

[PaperDoll]

I probably can, but that's because there are so many house ads for local programming that slip around the DVR commercial skip function. Also, I think most of them have been around awhile. Like so many others here, I don't recall the last time I watched the local or even national evening news.

 

[spikechiquet]

I can name the two main sports guys on the ABC and CBS stations, NBC station here doesn't have sports I believe (in Toledo, the NBC affiliate is actually broadcast from South Bend but they have like 2 or 3 people working out of Toledo, it's wacky) .. weekends would be fuzzy for me.

And after writing this ... I checked the ABC website and it looks like they don't even do sports anymore! So those guys must have moved on. Looks like they moved the sports guys to news in Aug 2020 and never brought the coverage back. There is a cable system here that has its own sports channel and that seems to have

I think I know the weather people more and follow them on social media. Yeesh, I've become old!

 

[MTM]

NBC LA just offered buyouts and lost a half dozen longtime employees, including an anchor and a bunch of veteran field reporters, but no one in sports.

Do sports anchors even go to games any more? I covered a lot of games in the 80s and 90s and they were usually there.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I can name one in our mid-major market, and that's only because I interviewed her for a freelance story a couple of years ago and we've become sorta friends. The other two (three if you count the local Fox affiliate, which barely has a presence here), I haven't a clue who any of their people are, sports or news.

 

[MNgremlin]

I'm over 50% in the MSP market, which I consider pretty good since I haven't had any TV in roughly 5 years.

 

[dixiehack]

I thought of about 4-5 “used to be” guys before I remembered a current one. All the prominent ones in this market either moved over to news side or went to flack for some politician or polluting industry.

 

[swingline]

Rod's Big Ol' Fish

 

[jr/shotglass]

Not. A. One.

Gregg Mace of ABC-27 in Harrisburg passed away two years ago. Mike Hostetler of WGAL-8 in Lancaster retired last month. That wiped out the veterans still recognizable to me.