Fred Roggin

Fred Roggin is the sports anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, California. He was also a sports talk radio host at KMPC in Los Angeles, and until Fall 2007 hosted a morning sports show on KLAC with "Los Angeles Times" sports columnist T.J. Simers and Simers' daughter, Tracy Simers. As of June 2008, he is currently an on-air contributor at rival KSPN-AM, offering commentary on local and national sports issues. He served as a host for NBC Sports coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics. [ [http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/mediumwell/blog/2008/07/your_nbc_olympics_lineup.html Medium Well: Your NBC Olympics lineup - A blog on sports media, news and networks - baltimoresun.com ] ]

Roggin also has a national profile, doing occasional work for NBC Sports. He with triathletes Julie Moss and Mike Plant had the call for the tape delayed 1990 Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. Also, he has become a regular during its coverage of the Olympics. At the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, he hosted the daily coverage of curling, and at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, he was the anchor for boxing coverage from the venue, which aired on CNBC and Universal HD. He was also a play by play announcer on several National Football League telecasts before the network stopped coverage after Super Bowl XXXII in January 1998. Roggin hosts a new sports-themed game show, "The Challenge", which airs after NBC's "Sunday Night Football" telecasts locally on KNBC. Roggin is also now starting another one of his dreams of presenting a game show called "The Money List", which is being recorded in the UK at The London Studios. The show is based on the UK's version of "Who Dares Wins!". The reason for recording in the UK is that the set would have been too expensive to produce in America, whereas in London they have all the facilities the production team needed for much cheaper prices.Fact|date=September 2008

Currently Roggin does a pre-taped sports scores/highlight recap for NBC's early morning newscasts, which airs on NBC's "Early Today" and MSNBC's "First Look", along with a separate segment for "Morning Joe". Previously segments aired on CNBC's former early morning show "Wake Up Call".

He also co-hosts the interactive TV show GSN Live (with Kelly Packard) on the GSN Network weekdays from 3 PM to 6 PM ET. The show started on February 25, 2008.

In 2001, he was one of the sideline reporters on NBC's coverage of the XFL, alongside Mike Adamle, who is the sports anchor on sister station WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois.

For several years in the early 1990s, he hosted "Roggin's Heroes", a collection of unusual sports highlights presented as a syndicated 30-minute show. Such clips still air as part of his new Sunday night program on KNBC.

Roggin joined KNBC in 1980, coming from KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona, and prior to that, he was the sports anchor on KYEL-TV (now KSWT), a station in Yuma, Arizona-El Centro, California market, between 1977 and 1978. He was born in Detroit. He currently lives in Calabasas, California with his wife Richel, a writer, along with their five children.

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* [http://www.knbc.com/meetthenewsteam/1274010/detail.html NBC4 bio]
* [http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/710espn/sectional?id=rogginissues Fred Roggin's page at 710ESPN.com]

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