Mark Ahmann
CLASS OF 2012 Mark Ahmann loved sports. He got as far as a spot with the New York Yankees farm club in McAlester, Oklahoma in 1953, but soon returned home following an injury. After a stint in the service, he decided if he couldn’t be a world-class athlete, he could certainly be a world-class sports […]
Peter Mayeux
CLASS OF 2012 Peter Mayeux taught broadcasting at Nebraska for 36 years, helping hundreds of graduates who have gone on to work in media. In 1985 he wrote, “Writing for the Broadcast Media,” which was adopted by universities in more than 100 countries. He also published short biographies, wrote for trade publications and contributed many […]
Ken Fearnow
CLASS OF 2013 Ken Fearnow began his radio career as a disc jockey and television weathercaster on Midway Island, while in the Navy. From there he evolved into station management guiding stations and clusters to success. After working through the ranks of programming, sales, and management at a small station in Oklahoma City, Fernow managed […]
Rod Bates
CLASS OF 2014 Rod Bates spent almost 40 years as a broadcaster in Nebraska. He joined Nebraska Educational Television as a producer/director in 1975, served in state government from 1983 to 1987 as Nebraska’s Director of Economic Development under Governor Bob Kerry, and ran his own video firm from 1988 until 1996 when he returned […]
Lynne Grasz Hall
CLASS OF 2014 Grasz-Hall began her career as one of only five students in the first broadcast journalism class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was the first intern at KOLN/KGIN television in Lincoln in 1964 and became promotion director in 1966 and promotion & public relations director in 1972.. Her career took her to […]
Marty Riemenschneider
CLASS OF 2015 Marty’s impact on broadcasting in Nebraska spanned 29 years that began in 1986 at Mitchell Broadcasting in Omaha. A native of Paxton, IL, Marty is a 1971 Radio & TV graduate of Southern Illinois University. He immediately began his radio career in sales at WSON/WKDQ, Henderson, Kentucky, and became station manager before […]
Chuck Stevens
CLASS OF 2015 Chuck Stevens enjoyed a 52-year career on Lincoln radio and TV, most notably in local sportscasting. Stevens came to Lincoln in 1960. He was just one year removed from high school but already had quite a resume, having worked at a radio station in his Sterling, Colorado hometown, another radio station in […]
Jerry Dishong
CLASS OF 2016 Jerry Dishong’s career spans five decades; all at one station. During that time he became legendary for his service to the communities of the Panhandle and the people who live there. Growing up in Gordon and attending Chadron State College, Jerry took a part-time job upon graduation in 1966 with Duhamel Broadcasting’s KDUH-TV in Hay Springs. To become full-time he was […]
Rose Ann Shannon
CLASS OF 2016 Rose Ann Shannon graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha and embarked on a 43-year broadcasting career in Nebraska. She was the news director at KETV channel 7 Omaha for 24 of those years. Shannon’s career began in 1973 just before the Omaha tornado of 1975. She was covering the city council meeting for KMTV at the time and […]
Dave Thorell
CLASS OF 2016 Dave Thorell of Loomis spent his entire career in broadcasting. Of the 47 years of his Nebraska radio work, 42 were on the air as a personality at KRVN in Lexington. He was a friend and trusted source of news and information for ranchers and farmers across Nebraska and much of Kansas. Thorell started as a student broadcaster for the Kearney State College […]