Steve Altmaier
CLASS OF 2019 Steve Altmaier served the people of the Tri-Cities area for 42 years from KGFW and KQKY in Kearney. His first on-air experience was as a Kearney High School junior. He co-hosted a Sunday afternoon Top 40 music show on the old KRNY station. As a college freshman, he had mic time at Kearney State’s KOVF campus station Steve was hired at KGFW in […]
Ken Fouts
CLASS OF 2019 Ken Fouts enjoyed a long and successful career in sports broadcasting, covering more than 3,000 events in 17 different countries. He caught the broadcasting bug while earning his degree in Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, working part-time at Lincoln stations KLIN, KLMS, KOLN-TV, and KUON-TV. Before graduating in 1964, Ken knew that directing coverage of sporting events […]
Todd-N-Tyler
CLASS OF 2021 Todd-N-Tyler have dominated Omaha radio morning show ratings at unprecedented levels for nearly 30 years. After first meeting on separate shifts at WHTF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Todd Brandt and Mike Tyler were paired as morning hosts there as Todd and Tyler in 1993. Just eight months later, Omaha’s KEZO brought the duo in to take over mornings. Irreverent, authentic, and […]
Sharon Behl Brooks
CLASS OF 2021 Sharon Behl Brooks followed her professional broadcasting career by educating future broadcasters at Hastings College. Sharon began as a part-time news and weather reporter at KHAS TV in Hastings in 1973 while attending college, before being hired full-time in 1974. In 1976, she was promoted to News Director, becoming the first woman […]
Bill Milldyke
CLASS OF 2021 Bill Milldyke was best known for his distinguished career with ABC News. Born in Kearney, Bill was a Kearney State College graduate in 1958 and did post-graduate work the following two years at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He held numerous part-time radio and TV jobs during these years including stints at Kearney’s KGFW and KHOL TV (now KHGI) […]