Fred Roggin

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Fred Roggin is the sports anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, California. . He was also a sports talk radio host at KMPC in Los Angeles,and until Fall 2007 hosted a morning sports show on KLAC with Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers and Simers' daughter, Tracy Simers.

Roggin also has a national profile, doing occasional work for NBC Sports. In fact, he has become a regular during its coverage of the Olympics. At the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, he hosted the daily coverage of curling, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he did the same for boxing. Both events aired on CNBC during the week, and on MSNBC on weekends. 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 hosts a new sports-themed game show, The Challenge, which airs after NBC's Sunday Night Football telecasts locally on KNBC.

Currently Roggin does a pre-taped sports scores/highlight recap for NBC's early morning newscasts, which airs on NBC's Early Today and MSNBC's First Look, along with a separate segment for Morning Joe. Previously segments aried on CNBC's early morning show Wake Up Call.

He also co-hosts the interactive TV show GSN Live (with Heidi Bohay) on the GSN Network weekdays from 12 noon to 3 PM ET. The show started on February 25, 2008.

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

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 joined KNBC in 1980, coming from KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona. He was born in Detroit. He currently lives in Calabasas, California with his wife Richel, a writer, along with their five children.