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Fred Roggin
Fred Roggin
Born	Frederick Jay Roggin; May 6, 1957 (age 67); Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Other names	"Freddy Ballgame"
Occupations	Actor; TV/Radio presenter; Game show host;
Years active	1977–present
Spouses	Eileen Roggin; Richel Roggin;
Children	5

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Frederick Jay Roggin (born May 6, 1957) is an American sports anchor currently with Los Angeles sports radio station KLAC. He is best known for his career at KNBC-TV. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Roggin was also a sports talk radio host at KMPC in Los Angeles and is currently co-hosting, alongside Rodney Peete, an afternoon sports show on KLAC. Roggin's other co-hosts on KLAC had included Los Angeles Times sports columnist T. J. Simers and Simers' daughter Tracy. Roggin served as a host for NBC Sports coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Career

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, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, he hosted the daily coverage of curling, and at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 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 joined KNBC in December 1980, coming from KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona.^[2] Prior to Phoenix, he was the sports anchor on KYEL-TV (now KYMA-DT), in Yuma, Arizona-El Centro, California (1977 to 1978), and for a brief period in 1978 with KVUE in Austin, Texas. He had lived in Calabasas, California,^{[citation needed]} with his wife Richel, a writer, along with their three children.

Roggin hosts a new sports-themed game show, The Challenge, which airs after NBC's Sunday Night Football telecasts locally on KNBC. 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 had also done taped sports scores and highlight recaps for NBC's early morning newscasts, which aired 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-hosted the interactive TV show GSN Live on GSN weekdays from 3 PM to 6 PM ET with Debra Skelton until he left the show on July 2, 2009 (and on occasion filled in for Alfonso Ribeiro from 12-3 PM ET). The show started on February 25, 2008. Roggin also started another one of his dreams in 2009, by presenting a game show called The Money List, which was recorded in the UK at The London Studios. The show was based on the United Kingdom's version of Who Dares Wins!. From 2009 - 2013, Roggin hosted the NBC show "The Filter with Fred Roggin" which also starred Melissa Rivers, Charlotte Laws, Debra Wilson, Leo Terrell and Amy Alkon.^[3] Roggin and the others discussed the news topics of the day.

On April 14, 2013, NBC's "Going Roggin" debuted at midnight. Airing most Saturdays at 3pm and Sundays at midnight, the 30-minute show offers Roggin's perspective on hot topics in the world of L.A. sports. The crossfire format includes 2 weekly rotated co-contributors on each show. The show also highlights local sports legends as well as interview pro athletes. Most notable contributors include Petros Papadakis (AM 570), Tim Cates (AM 570), Jeff Garcia (The Sports Dude - Power 106), Mark Willard (Fox Sports Radio), J. Woodfin (J from Compton - ESPN), Brian Webber (NBC Sports).

On September 22, 2014, The Fred Roggin Show launched on KFWB in Los Angeles, branded as The Beast 980. The sports radio talk show was heard weekdays from 3pm-6pm on AM 980 in Southern California, as well as KFWB's website (thebeast980.com) and The Beast 980 phone app for Android and iPhone. His show was on the air up until KFWB's sports talk format was discontinued on March 1, 2016.

In August 2016, Roggin became the new co-host of KLAC's noon-to-3 pm show with Leeann Tweeden, replacing Bill Reiter, who exited KLAC to join the CBS Sports Radio network.^[4]

In 1993 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[5] In 2022 he was featured in the Emmy award winning docu-series I Was There When... on NBC's Peacock.

Roggin departed from KNBC on January 26, 2023.^[6] He continues to work in radio along with former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Rodney Peete on KLAC's afternoon sports show Roggin and Rodney.^[7] On December 4, 2023, Roggin announced that he would return to television on KMIR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Palm Springs. He anchors The Roggin Report, which is a new 6:30 p.m. program focusing on the news topic of the day featuring reaction and discussion in a fresh new format. The Roggin Report debuted on January 2, 2024, on KMIR-TV. The show is also shown on NBC Palm Springs' Facebook page as part of their livestream of the 6 pm newscast. ^[8]^[9]

Roggin continues to do the Roggin and Rodney radio program from his home in Palm Springs.

References

^ "Medium Well: Sports Media Blog by The Sun's Ray Frager". Weblogs.BaltimoreSun.com. July 16, 2008. Archived from the original on August 3, 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
^ Wilkinson, Bud (September 30, 1980). "Sports anchor, reporter leave KPNX-TV for NBC affiliates". The Arizona Republic (via Newspapers.com). Retrieved July 21, 2024.
^ "The Filter with Fred Roggin | NBC Southern California". NBCLosAngeles.com. November 8, 2010. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013.
^ "Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They Now? R". LARadio.com. August 30, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
^ "Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home". SCJewishSportsHoF.com. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
^ "Sports Anchor Fred Roggin to Sign off After More Than Four Decades at NBC4". January 24, 2023.
^ "Roggin & Rodney". iHeartMedia. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
^ Villarreal, Pristine (December 4, 2023). "A big announcement to make: You may have heard someone new is coming to NBC Palm Springs…and now we can reveal who it is!". NBC Palm Springs (KMIR-TV). Retrieved December 30, 2023.
^ Bohannan, Larry (December 26, 2022). "Fred Roggin trading Los Angeles sports for a new kind of newscast in the desert". The Desert Sun. Retrieved December 30, 2023.

External links

Fred Roggin at IMDb
Fred Roggin at KNBC
About Roggin & Rodney on KLAC
NBC4 bio
Fred Roggin's page at 710ESPN.com at the Wayback Machine (archived September 24, 2008)

[1] "Medium Well: Sports Media Blog by The Sun's Ray Frager". Weblogs.BaltimoreSun.com. July 16, 2008. Archived from the original on August 3, 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2022.

[2] Wilkinson, Bud (September 30, 1980). "Sports anchor, reporter leave KPNX-TV for NBC affiliates". The Arizona Republic (via Newspapers.com). Retrieved July 21, 2024.

[3] "The Filter with Fred Roggin | NBC Southern California". NBCLosAngeles.com. November 8, 2010. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013.

[4] "Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They Now? R". LARadio.com. August 30, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2022.

[5] "Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home". SCJewishSportsHoF.com. Retrieved October 4, 2022.

[6] "Sports Anchor Fred Roggin to Sign off After More Than Four Decades at NBC4". January 24, 2023.

[7] "Roggin & Rodney". iHeartMedia. Retrieved February 2, 2023.

[8] Villarreal, Pristine (December 4, 2023). "A big announcement to make: You may have heard someone new is coming to NBC Palm Springs…and now we can reveal who it is!". NBC Palm Springs (KMIR-TV). Retrieved December 30, 2023.

[9] Bohannan, Larry (December 26, 2022). "Fred Roggin trading Los Angeles sports for a new kind of newscast in the desert". The Desert Sun. Retrieved December 30, 2023.

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-'''Frederick Jay Roggin''' (born May 6, 1957) is the American sports anchor at [[KNBC|KNBC-TV]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], and afternoon show co-host at [[KLAC]]. Born in [[Detroit]], Michigan, Roggin was also a sports talk radio host at [[KSPN (AM)|KMPC]] in Los Angeles and previously hosted a morning sports show on [[KLAC]] with ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' sports columnist [[T. J. Simers]] and Simers' daughter Tracy. Roggin served as a host for [[NBC Sports]] coverage of the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 16, 2008 |title=Medium Well: Sports Media Blog by The Sun's Ray Frager |url=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/mediumwell/blog/2008/07/your_nbc_olympics_lineup.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803182204/http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/mediumwell/blog/2008/07/your_nbc_olympics_lineup.html |archive-date=August 3, 2008 |access-date=October 4, 2022 |website=Weblogs.BaltimoreSun.com}}</ref>
+'''Frederick Jay Roggin''' (born May 6, 1957) is an American sports anchor currently with [[Los Angeles]] sports radio station [[KLAC]].  He is best known for his career at [[KNBC|KNBC-TV]]. Born in [[Detroit]], Michigan, Roggin was also a sports talk radio host at [[KSPN (AM)|KMPC]] in Los Angeles and is currently co-hosting, alongside [[Rodney Peete]], an afternoon sports show on [[KLAC]].  Roggin's other co-hosts on KLAC had included ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' sports columnist [[T. J. Simers]] and Simers' daughter Tracy. Roggin served as a host for [[NBC Sports]] coverage of the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 16, 2008 |title=Medium Well: Sports Media Blog by The Sun's Ray Frager |url=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/mediumwell/blog/2008/07/your_nbc_olympics_lineup.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803182204/http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/mediumwell/blog/2008/07/your_nbc_olympics_lineup.html |archive-date=August 3, 2008 |access-date=October 4, 2022 |website=Weblogs.BaltimoreSun.com}}</ref>
 ==Career==
 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 Olympics|2006]], [[2010 Winter Olympics|2010]] and [[2014 Winter Olympics]], he hosted the daily coverage of [[curling]], and at the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]] and [[2012 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 joined KNBC in 1980, coming from [[KPNX]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], and prior to that, he was the sports anchor on KYEL-TV (now [[KYMA-DT]]), a station in [[Yuma, Arizona]]-[[El Centro, California]], market, between 1977 and 1978. He lives in [[Calabasas, California]],{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} with his wife Richel, a writer, along with their three children.
+Roggin joined KNBC in December 1980, coming from [[KPNX]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wilkinson|first=Bud|date=1980-09-30|title=Sports anchor, reporter leave KPNX-TV for NBC affiliates|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-sports-anchor-reporter/138287438/|access-date=2024-07-21|work=[[The Arizona Republic]] (via Newspapers.com)|language=en-US}}</ref> Prior to Phoenix, he was the sports anchor on KYEL-TV (now [[KYMA-DT]]), in [[Yuma, Arizona]]-[[El Centro, California]] (1977 to 1978), and for a brief period in 1978 with [[KVUE]] in [[Austin, Texas]].  He had lived in [[Calabasas, California]],{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} with his wife Richel, a writer, along with their three children.
 Roggin hosts a new sports-themed game show, ''The Challenge'', which airs after NBC's ''[[NBC Sunday Night Football|Sunday Night Football]]'' telecasts locally on KNBC. For several years in the early 1990s, he hosted ''Roggin's Heroes'', a collection of unusual sports highlights presented as a [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] 30-minute show. Such clips still air as part of his new Sunday night program on KNBC.
-Currently Roggin does a taped sports scores and highlight recap for NBC's early morning newscasts, which airs on NBC's ''[[Early Today]]'' and MSNBC's ''[[Morning Joe First Look|First Look]]'', along with a separate segment for ''[[Morning Joe]]''. Previously segments aired on CNBC's former early morning show ''[[Wake Up Call (2002 TV program)|Wake Up Call]]''.
+Roggin had also done taped sports scores and highlight recaps for NBC's early morning newscasts, which aired on NBC's ''[[Early Today]]'' and MSNBC's ''[[Morning Joe First Look|First Look]]'', along with a separate segment for ''[[Morning Joe]]''. Previously segments aired on CNBC's former early morning show ''[[Wake Up Call (2002 TV program)|Wake Up Call]]''.
 He also co-hosted the interactive TV show ''[[GSN Live]]'' on [[Game Show Network|GSN]] weekdays from 3 PM to 6 PM ET with [[Debra Wilson|Debra Skelton]] until he left the show on July 2, 2009 (and on occasion filled in for [[Alfonso Ribeiro]] from 12-3 PM ET). The show started on February 25, 2008. Roggin also started another one of his dreams in 2009, by presenting a game show called ''The Money List'', which was recorded in the UK at [[The London Studios]].  The show was based on the United Kingdom's version of ''Who Dares Wins!''. From 2009 - 2013, Roggin hosted the NBC show "The Filter with Fred Roggin" which also starred [[Melissa Rivers]], [[Charlotte Laws]], [[Debra Wilson]], [[Leo Terrell]] and [[Amy Alkon]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Filter with Fred Roggin {{!}} NBC Southern California |url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/shows/The-Filter-with-Fred-Roggin-58170267.html |url-status=dead |date=November 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022133236/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/shows/The-Filter-with-Fred-Roggin-58170267.html |archive-date=October 22, 2013 |website=NBCLosAngeles.com}}</ref> Roggin and the others discussed the news topics of the day.
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 In August 2016, Roggin became the new co-host of [[KLAC]]'s noon-to-3 pm show with [[Leeann Tweeden]], replacing Bill Reiter, who exited KLAC to join the [[CBS Sports Radio]] network.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They Now? R |url= http://laradio.com/wherer.htm|date=August 30, 2016 |work=LARadio.com |access-date=October 10, 2022}}</ref>
-In 1993 he was inducted into the [[Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home |url=https://scjewishsportshof.com/roggin.html |website=SCJewishSportsHoF.com |access-date=October 4, 2022}}</ref>
+In 1993 he was inducted into the [[Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home |url=https://scjewishsportshof.com/roggin.html |website=SCJewishSportsHoF.com |access-date=October 4, 2022}}</ref> In 2022 he was featured in the [[Emmy Awards|Emmy]] award winning docu-series '''''[[I Was There When... (TV series)|I Was There When...]]''''' on NBC's [[Peacock (streaming service)|Peacock]].
+Roggin departed from KNBC on January 26, 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/sports-anchor-fred-roggin-nbc4-retirement/3080455/ | title=Sports Anchor Fred Roggin to Sign off After More Than Four Decades at NBC4 | date=24 January 2023 }}</ref>  He continues to work in radio along with former [[National Football League]] (NFL) [[quarterback]] [[Rodney Peete]] on KLAC's afternoon sports show ''Roggin and Rodney''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://am570lasports.iheart.com/featured/lunchtime-with-roggin-and-rodney/about/|title=Roggin & Rodney|publisher=iHeartMedia|access-date=February 2, 2023}}</ref> On December 4, 2023, Roggin announced that he would return to television on [[KMIR-TV]], the NBC affiliate in [[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]]. He anchors ''The Roggin Report'', which is a new 6:30 p.m. program focusing on the news topic of the day featuring reaction and discussion in a fresh new format. ''The Roggin Report'' debuted on January 2, 2024, on KMIR-TV. The show is also shown on NBC Palm Springs' Facebook page as part of their livestream of the 6 pm newscast. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Villarreal|first=Pristine|date=2023-12-04|title=A big announcement to make: You may have heard someone new is coming to NBC Palm Springs…and now we can reveal who it is!|url=https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2023/12/04/a-big-announcement-to-make-you-may-have-heard-someone-new-is-coming-to-nbc-palm-springs-and-now-we-can-reveal-who-it-is/|access-date=2023-12-30|work=[[KMIR-TV|NBC Palm Springs (KMIR-TV)]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bohannan|first=Larry|date=2022-12-26|title=Fred Roggin trading Los Angeles sports for a new kind of newscast in the desert|url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/sports/2023/12/26/fred-roggin-trading-los-angeles-sports-for-new-kind-of-newscast-at-nbc-palm-springs/71660419007/|access-date=2023-12-30|work=[[The Desert Sun]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
-His retirement was announced to be effective January 26, 2023.<ref>https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/sports-anchor-fred-roggin-nbc4-retirement/3080455/</ref>
+Roggin continues to do the ''Roggin and Rodney'' radio program from his home in Palm Springs.
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
+{{Commons category}}
 * {{IMDb name|0737315}}
 * {{URL|https://www.nbclosangeles.com/author/fred-roggin/ |Fred Roggin}} at [[KNBC]]
+* {{URL|https://am570lasports.iheart.com/featured/lunchtime-with-roggin-and-rodney/about/ |About Roggin & Rodney}} on [[KLAC]]
 * {{URL|https://www.nbclosangeles.com/author/fred-roggin/ |NBC4 bio}}
-* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924130314/http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/710espn/sectional?id=rogginissues|title=Fred Roggin's page at 710ESPN.com}}
+* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924130314/http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/710espn/sectional?id=rogginissues|date=September 24, 2008|title=Fred Roggin's page at 710ESPN.com}}
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