Fred Roggin

Fred Roggin is the award-winning weekday sports anchor for NBC4, NBC's owned and operated station in Los Angeles. Roggin is featured Monday through Friday on the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. editions of the "Channel 4 News." His sports reports can also be seen on the station's popular morning program, "Today in LA." Roggin also serves as the station's sports director.

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The leading sports anchor in Southern California, Roggin has garnered 15 regional Emmy Awards, 13 Golden Mike Awards, three prestigious Associated Press Awards and numerous Press Club Awards for his sports segments, specials and series. In 1990, he was voted Best Sportscaster in the Los Angeles Daily News "Dream Team" reader's poll. He was also named California Sportscaster of the Year in 1990 by the National Association of Sports Broadcasters.

Roggin teamed with Arthel Neville to host "The Arthel & Fred Show," an hour-long daytime entertainment talk show which aired during the 1997-98 television season. The nationally syndicated program featured entertaining audience interaction, unconventional field segments, a house band and engaging interviews with such celebrity guests as Whoopi Goldberg and David Hyde Pierce.

Roggin joined NBC4 in December 1980 as the weekend anchor and weekday reporter. In June 1986, he became the station's primary sports anchor and reporter. Roggin expanded his role at the station in 1985 when he created and became host and executive producer of "Sunday Night Sports."

Well-known for his use of humor and satire in his sports reporting, Roggin created segments such as the "Hall of Shame," which features video clips of humorous and unforgettable sports moments, and "Roggin's Heroes," which highlights remarkable or extraordinary plays occurring in the world of sports. "Roggin's Heroes" was developed into a weekly half-hour series, which was syndicated nationally in 1990. The program featured many of the elements Roggin developed in his sportscasts, including "Hall of Shame."

Roggin is also the creator and host of the highly rated annual special "Sports Bowl." This one-hour special, airing each year at the end of the football season, is an entertaining retrospective of the year's most memorable -- and not-so-memorable -- moments in sports.

In 1993 and 1994, Roggin produced and hosted three primetime "Top Secret Television" one-hour specials. The specials featured bloopers and home videos from around the world.

During his tenure at NBC4, Roggin has also done play-by-play commentary for the NBC Sports Network and has appeared in a number of cameo and guest-starring television roles, including the 1993 NBC Movie of the Week, "Perry Mason: The Case of the TellTale Talk Show Host." He is also a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show."

Roggin began his broadcasting career in 1976 as the sports anchor, reporter and play-by-play announcer for KIKO Radio in Globe, Arizona. In 1977, he became the sports anchor, reporter and sports director for KBLU Radio and KYEL-TV in Yuma, Arizona. The next year, he became the sports director and anchor for KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas, and during that same year moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to become the weekday sports anchor at KPNX-TV.

Originally from Detroit, Roggin was raised in Phoenix, where he attended Phoenix College in Broadcasting. He and his family live in the San Fernando Valley.