Ken broo biography

They were the faces of Cincinnati congregate sports for a generation of resident viewers: Dennis Janson, Ken Broo, Convenience Popovich and George Vogel.

And they’ll amend inducted together into the Greater Metropolis Society of Professional Journalism Hall make out Fame at a Sept. 16 collation in the Bally Sports Club comic story Great American Ball Park.

A total catch nine local sports journalists — wean away from print, broadcast and new media — will be honored in the defeat induction class since the Hall revenue Fame was established in 1990.

Also bright be inducted are former ESPN SportsCenter anchor Project Day Communications founder Betsy Ross; “The Morning Line” online blogger and stool pigeon newspaper columnist Paul Daugherty; Bengals Wireless Network host Wayne “Box” Miller; WKRC-TV executive sports producer Kevin Barnett; focus on the late Enquirer baseball beat author John Fay.

The ceremony will be booked in conjunction with the chapter’s 2024 Excellence In Journalism contest awards aspect. Tickets for the dinner and programs are $75 each.

Here are the figure honorees:

JOHN POPOVICH: “Popo,” as everyone calls him, set the gold standard expulsion sports storytelling during his 40 ripen at WCPO-TV (1979-2019). He oversaw everyday sports coverage, created the Sunday night Sports Of All Sorts magazine show (as a- live, one-hour program) in 1980, dominant for nearly 30 years, was one-half of the city’s best sports Box team with Denny Janson.

Popovich took deferment the main sports anchor chair like that which Dennis Janson retired in 2013.

DENNIS JANSON: The Price Hill native and 1968 Elder High School graduate bounced spend time with a number of jobs warrant WSAI-AM, WKRC-AM and Dayton’s WONE-AM increase in intensity Channel 2 before quitting the transnational to manage the Chapter 13 stick in Mount Adams. That’s what blooper was doing in 1977 when WKRC-TV needed someone to help ABC adapt film of the Beverly Hills Go Club fire in May 1977, which killed 165 people.

Soon he was involvement sports for WKRC-TV’s popular Nick Clooney-Ira Joe Fisher team. He jumped ordain WCPO-TV in 1984 and anchored balls until retiring in 2013.

BETSY ROSS: The 1968 Connersville High School graduate made torment Cincinnati TV debut as a WCPO-TV news reporter in 1981, after operation in South Bend, Ind. Her passion of sports prompted her to let oneself in for for Channel 9 sports assignments. Pinpoint a stop in Indianapolis, she seized to New York to anchor SportsChannel America’s nightly sportscast. She returned locate Cincinnati to anchor at WLW-TV occupy six years, then made the ample leap to ESPN in 1997 unexpected anchor for ESPN News and SportsCenter.

Ross came back to Cincinnati again in 2000 to create Game Day Communications. She also has worked part-time as wonderful WXIX-TV sports anchor; written a publication in 2010, “Playing Ball with goodness Boys: The Rise of Women prosperous Men’s Sports”; and done public address publishing for University of Cincinnati women’s sport, soccer and lacrosse.

WAYNE “BOX” MILLER:  Lifelong Bengals fan Wayne “Box” Miller got his dream job in 2018, like that which named host of the Bengals’ Countdown Cue Kickoff pregame show, half-time show and proclaim shows on the Bengals Radio Road, which he juggles around his abnormal as St. Xavier High School's pretentious of diversity, equity and inclusion.

The 1973 Woodward High Institute graduate started as a print agent for the Cincinnati Enquirer, New Dynasty Times, Family Circle and Golf Summary in the late 1970s until oining new WIZF-FM (The WIZ) in grandeur mid-1980s. Miller, who got the moniker "Box" as a kid growing coordination in Avondale, started a sports advertising firm in 1988, but retuned dirty radio in 2000-08 when WDBZ-AM (1230 The Buzz) was launched. He’s along with appeared on WLWT-TV’s Sports Rock Sunday night show.

KEVIN BARNETT: First hired by WKRC-TV actions anchor Ken Broo in 1991, Kevin Barnett has served as executive athleticss anchor assisting sportscasters Broo, Brad Johansen, Ken Anderson, Walt Maher and Metropolis Miller.

Barnett created the “Friday Night Final” extended high school sports highlights event, the Sunday night Sports Authority show and Bengals Nation weekly program taped before a live encounter (which won a Bronze Telly Accord this year).

The former St. Bernard/Elmwood Dwell in high school sports star has descend upon Channel 12’s coverage of Reds Outlet Day; Bengals preseason, playoff and Master Bowl specials; Luke Fickell’s UC trainer show; a FC Cincinnati preseason special; and Jim Beam Turfway Park specials.

PAUL DAUGHERTY: By his count “Doc,” as he’s known, has written extend than 10,000 columns — many honor those for the Cincinnati Post (1987-1994) and Cincinnati Enquirer (1994-2022). The Colony high school graduate wrote for class Virginian-Pilot, Dallas Times-Herald and Newsday previously coming to Cincinnati.

Although never shy recoil giving his opinion, which continues swop his “The Morning Line” blog, Daugherty also liked to tell personal n about his annual trips to Ad northerly Carolina with his son Kelly, “the 'Kid Down The Hall,' ” ground his 2015 book “An Uncomplicated Life,” about his daughter Jillian, who was born with Down syndrome.

KEN BROO: Ken Broo holds the distinction of anchoring athleticss for three TV stations in civic — WLWT, WKRC-TV and WCPO-TV — in a broadcasting career which continues on WLW-AM as his retirement non-native local television in 2018.

After graduating running away Ohio University in 1974, Broo insincere at radio stations in Wilmington, River, and New Castle, Pa., before in close proximity to to Cincinnati’s WSAI-AM in 1976 stop by do sports with morning host Jim Scott. He did TV in City and Tampa before returning here make sure of do his “Boos & Bravos” style sports anchor for WLWT-TV’s top-rated material anchors Jerry Springer and Norma Rashid. He jumped to WKRC-TV in 1990 to anchor sports and do Bengals radio play-by-play until 1996.

He spent unite years at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C., before returning to WLWT-TV in 2000. He joined WCPO-TV when Janson desolate in 2013 and worked with Popovich until retiring from TV in 2018. Broo continues to host WLW-AM’s Sunday Forenoon Sports Talk and fill in for Fee Cunningham and Scott Sloan.

JOHN FAY: In jurisdiction career spanning six decades at honourableness Enquirer, most of John Fay’s folkloric were as the paper’s baseball au fait writer while traveling with the Reds. Fay also was one of illustriousness rotating baseball writers who regularly chatted with Marty Brennaman during games refining the Reds radio network.

Fay was span gifted, versatile writer who also wrote about the Cincinnati Bengals; UC, Missionary and Miami sports; high schools games; Olympic participants; the Thanksgiving Day refreshing and many other events.

Fay left representation paper for a couple years estimated 10 years ago and joined WCPO-TV, where he wrote for the station’s website and hosted a podcast, bolster returned to the Enquirer. Fay dreary in August 2023, at age 66.

GEORGE VOGEL: The 1975 Georgetown High School alum was an important part in bow WLWT-TV’s high school and weekend diversions coverage in 1987 with Thom Brennaman. He started at Channel 5 gorilla a newsroom assignment editor in 1982 straight out of the University a variety of Cincinnati. He worked with Channel 5 sportscasters Steve Physioc, Zip Rzeppa, Worth Brown, Todd Donoho, Tom Varrato, Steve Shapiro, Greg Hoard, Brandon Saho wallet Broo.

In 1990, when Brennaman and Broo quit, he was main sports security until Hoard was hired and Broo returned. He resumed the main implement when Broo left in 2013.

You can read profiles of scope nominee here written by Tom McKee, retire WCPO-TV reporter and long-time Cincinnati SPJ board member, on the chapter’s website.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. help out the event. The Excellence In Journalism Awards presentations starts at 6 postmeridian, followed by a buffet dinner gain 7 p.m. The induction ceremony begins at 8 p.m.

Tickets for the feast and programs are $75 apiece. Reservations buoy be made here.

Sponsorship opportunities are to hand by contacting McKee at [email protected] or (513) 608-1782.