Fred Roggin

Fred Roggin (born May 6, 1957) is a sports anchor for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, California. He was also a sports talk radio host for KMPC in Los Angeles, anduntil Fall 2007 hosted a morning sports on KLAC with Los Angeles Times sports columnists T.J. Simers and Simers' daughter, Tracy Simers. As of June 2008, he is currently an on-air contributor at rival ESPN-AM, offering commentary on local and national sports issues. He served as a host for NBC Sports coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Roggin also has a national profile, doing occasional work for NBC Sports. Roggin 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 and 2010 Winter Olympics, he hosted the daily coverage of curling, and at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, he was he 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 1988. Roggin hosts a new sports-themed game show, The Challenge, which airs after after NBC's Sunday Night Football telecasts locally on KNBC. Roggin is also now starting another one of his dreams of presenting a game show called The Money List (based on the UK game show Who Dares Wins "Not to be confused with the Australian stunt and dare game show of the same name" and a revival of Fox's short-lived 2006 primetime game show The Rich List "originally hosted by Eamonn Holmes").

Currently, Roggin does a taped sports scores and highlight recap for NBC's early morning newscasts, whih airs on NBC's Early Today and MSNBC's First Look, along with a seperate segment for ''Morning Joe. Previously segments aired on CNBC's former early morning show Wake Up Call.''

Roggin 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 at 12-3 PM ET Segment when Ribeiro has the day off). The show started on February 25, 2008 until July 29, 2011.

In 2001, he was one of the sideline reports on NBC's coverage of the ill-fated XFL, alongside Mike Adamle, who is the sports anchor on sister station WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2009, he was a celebrity host on Nickelodeon's 2009 Kids' Choice Awards. Hosting the slime event with Will Ferrell is going to ride down a pool of slime.

In the early 1990s for several years, he hosted Roggin's Heroes, a collection of unusual sports highlights that were presented as a syndicated 30-minute show. Such clips still air as part of his new Sunday night program on KNBC.

On April 15, 2010, Roggin anchored the news segments of the KNBC 11 p.m. newscast, substituting for regular anchor Chuck Henry.

Roggin joined KNBC in 1980, coming from KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona. and prior to that, he was the sports anchor on KYEL-TV (now KSWT) a station in Yuma, Arizone-El Centro, California market, between 1977 and 1978. He was born in Detroit. Roggin Currently lives in Calabasas, California along with his wife Richel, a writer, and their three children.

Trivia
his other nickame is "Freddy Ballgame".

Shows hosted
GSN Live

The Challenge (KNBC Only)

The Money List

Links
Official website for "The Challenge"

Roggin's Bio from KNBC 4's website

Fred Roggin's page at 710ESPN.com