Catherine Hughes
CLASS OF 2005 Catherine Hughes is the founder and chairperson of Radio One, Inc., the largest African-American-owned and operated broadcast company in the nation. Born in Omaha, Hughes grew up in the Logan-Fontenelle Housing Projects and attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Creighton University, her father’s alma mater, but never completed her degree. In 1969 […]
Ulysses Carlini
CLASS OF 2005 Ulysses Carlini entered television during its early years in 1953, beginning his career in the production department of WEHT-TV Henderson, Kentucky. His job entailed everything: announcing, writing, sales and production. He even hosted a kid’s program on Saturday mornings. In 1959 he moved to Evansville, Indiana to WTVW-TV as Program Director where […]
Don Gill
CLASS OF 2006 Don GIll’s broadcast career extended nearly 60 years. Breaking into radio as a young man in the Army stationed in Okinawa during the Korean War, he later established a longtime career in Lincoln at KLIN and Nebraska Educational TV. Following his military service, Gill gained more radio experience helping put KNCK Concordia, Kansas on the air in 1954. […]
Eric Brown
CLASS OF 2006 Eric Brown led KRVN and the nation’s only farmer-rancher-owned radio group in America for over 30 years. Taking over the KRVN management position left by his retiring father, he brought an impressive background of experience and education in journalism to continue the tradition begun by Max Brown. Eric began his broadcasting career in 1962 as a part-time announcer at KRVN, […]
Rolland Johnson
CLASS OF 2007 Rolland (Rollie) Clair Johnson was Chairman and CEO of Three Eagles Communications, which he founded in 1995, and its various subsidiaries. The company once owned approximately 60 radio stations in small-to-medium markets in the Midwest, as well as FarmNet, a nationally syndicated agricultural news service. A Nebraskan, Rolland grew up on a working […]
John Fetzer
CLASS OF 2007 John Fetzer may be more widely known as the owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1961 through 1983. But his best story is his work as a Michigan radio and television executive who pioneered in the two mediums. Along the way, his contributions to Nebraska television left major and lasting changes for […]
Gil Poese
CLASS OF 2008 Gil Poese owned and ran KBRX O’Neill for 60 years. His understanding of serving a local audience is legendary. Gil’s noon newscast was appointment listening for thousands. The station’s Party Line program of buy, sell, trade, or just talk, was one of the longest-running programs in the state. Gil was from Missouri. […]
John Clark
CLASS OF 2008 Born and raised in Omaha, John Clark graduated from Technical High in 1966 and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1971. In the years that followed, John left his permanent mark on Omaha television. John started out working part-time at KMTV […]
Dave Hamer
CLASS OF 2009 Dave Hamer began his broadcast career at KVTV Sioux City gaining experience as a street reporter-photographer. Moving to Omaha he was brought aboard as Chief Photographer at KETV when it signed on in 1957. There he polished his skills as a reporter-photographer covering the Starkweather murder rampage as well as covering City […]
Lee Thomas
CLASS OF 2009 Lee Thomas went from DJ to Ph.D. At KLMS Lincoln for 27 years, Thomas served as music director, program director, operations manager, and general manager by 1974, and for listeners, a popular reviewer of movies. From there he went on to earn a doctorate and teach communications at Doane College in Crete. […]