Robert H. Storz
CLASS OF 2002 Robert H. Storz was a master strategist and businessman. He got into radio by backing his son Todd Storz who transitioned radio from network block programming to local music and news. Robert helped run the family’s Storz Brewing Company, the state’s top-selling beer in the 1950s. He also had an extensive banking […]
Richard Palmquist
CLASS OF 2002 Richard F. Palmquist was an actor and announcer during his formative years. He went into radio and television then into advertising with his own successful agencies before becoming president of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association. His guidance, attention to detail, and ready smile made the NBA a nationally recognized entity. Richard was born […]
Roger Dodson
CLASS OF 2003 Roger Dodson was born in Nehawka. In 1957 while still in high school, he got his first radio job working for KNCY in Nebraska City. When he later graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1964, he almost immediately was brought in as general manager of KODY North Platte. He worked as […]
Mel Mains
CLASS OF 2003 Mel Mains anchored the evening news on KOLN/KGIN TV in Lincoln for 34 years covering most of Nebraska and northern Kansas. He became an institution within the Nebraska media and a household name for thousands of Nebraskans. A native of Holmesville, Mel Mains graduated from Wymore High School in 1947. He spent […]
Howard Kennedy
CLASS OF 2004 Omahan Howard Kennedy is a 35-year broadcast veteran with a third of it spent in his hometown managing KMTV channel 3. Kennedy graduated from Central High School and then attended the University of Iowa where he played first base for the Hawkeyes. After graduation in 1962, he displayed his on-air talents with […]
Ron Hull
CLASS OF 2004 Ron Hull played a major role during the formative years of public television. His belief was that TV should be a mix of entertainment and education. Ron’s achievements helped make the state’s public broadcasting system among the best in the industry. Hull came to Lincoln from his home state of South Dakota […]
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, […]