Bruce Rader

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Bruce Rader is an American broadcaster who retired in February 2022 as sports director of

WVBT-TV in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach after more than 45 years. He was the longest active television anchor in Hampton Roads television history.[1]

He is now Vice President of Special Projects for the national media production house Studio Center,[2] and a contributing reporter with Nexstar Media Group, Inc. on special projects, while continuing his active role as an officer and board member of the Priority Automotive Charities.[3][citation needed]

Early life and career

Born Bruce Reed Rader at

NBA became a college basketball broadcaster for CBS Sports and ESPN
.

Television career

In 1974 Rader began his television career working in the newsroom at

Washington Redskins play-by-play announcers Mal Campbell and Len Hathaway and produced the Coach George Allen post-game show and the Chris Hanburger
locker room show in 1974 and briefly worked for WMAL-TV Sports Director Steve Bassett before moving to Norfolk.

In 1975 Rader was hired by news director Tony Burton as the assignment editor at

Lin Media company now Nexstar Media Group as the weekend sportscaster and weekday news reporter for the NBC affiliate covering Virginia Beach. On January 1, 1979, he was named sports director and primary sports anchor. Rader, noted for his energetic style, changed the way local sports were presented in the market. He devoted extensive coverage to NASCAR becoming one of the first local sportscasters outside of Florida to annually spend a week covering the season-opening Daytona 500. He was the first sportscaster from the Hampton Roads market to cover Washington Redskins games on a regular basis, both home and away. During his coverage of Super Bowl XVII in 1983, he broadcast the first live newscast in Hampton Roads television history from Costa Mesa, California. He continues to anchor the daily sports segments weeknights on WAVY-TV and is the host of the Fox 43 Sportswrap every night on Fox 43. He is also the host of the weekly Old Dominion University Football Show with Coach Ricky Rahne, The Washington Huddle WFT Show shown in the Hampton Roads, Richmond, Roanoke, Washington, D.C., and Hagerstown, Maryland
, markets, and the high school football show Friday Night Flights.

Community service

The Bruce Rader-St. Jude Golf Tournament raised more than US$1 million during its 20-year run for

Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon on WAVY-TV.[5]

Awards

In 2017 Rader received the Gold & Silver Circle Ceremony Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the

Virginia Sports Hall of Fame,[7] two years after being the first person inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Media Hall of Fame.[8] Rader retired in February 2022.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Bruce Rader". WAVY-TV. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18.
  2. ^ "Studio Center Welcomes Bruce Rader :: Studio Center". studiocenter.com. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  3. ^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  4. ^ "Thank you for attending - St. Jude Bruce Rader Golf Tournament". St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
  5. ^ a b "Bruce Rader". WAVY-TV. May 19, 2019.
  6. ^ "Bruce Rader given Silver Circle honor by Emmys". WAVY-TV. March 4, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-03-06.
  7. ^ "General Assembly recognizes Virginia Sports Hall inductees, including WAVY's Bruce Rader". WAVY-TV. February 18, 2022.
  8. ^ "Recipients". Hampton Roads Sports Media Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2023-11-08.

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