2010 Hall of Fame Inductees
Warren Chandler
Warren Chandler, who passed away on May 22, 2010, was a long time popular newscaster and weather forecaster on KLZ radio and KLZ-TV, now KMGH.
Before his professional career the Denver native served in the US Navy during WWII where he was a radioman aboard the USS Ticonderoga and USS Topeka. During his tour of duty he earned the American Theater and Asiatic Pacific Area Regions ribbons and two Battle Stars.
After helping to establish college radio station KVDU at the University of Denver, he began his broadcast career in Phoenix. At KOOL he produced radio dramas and was named Production Manager and Program Director.
Returning to Denver in 1953 he joined KLZ Radio and KLZ-TV and was on the air reporting news and weather through 1977. Area listeners and viewers relied on and trusted his reports and during his tenure KLZ was the news rating leader in the area.
His next assignment was as a member of the US Peace Corps. He and his wife, Loni, spent two years in Chile teaching and assisting there to improve the native’s daily lives.
Upon returning to Denver he resumed weather reporting duties on KOA -TV and KWGN-TV. In 1981 the Chandlers produced audio-video programs about their travels which were shown on local stations and at functions in the area.
Chandler received numerous awards over his 40 years of broadcasting including the Smoky Bear Award for his crusade against forest fires.
Bertha Lynn
Bertha Lynn is one of Denver’s most recognized and honored broadcast journalists. Currently Anchor of the 11:00 AM Channel 7 News, she has been reporting the news to Coloradans for 30 years.
From 1976 to 1984 Lynn was News Anchor/Reporter at KBTV-TV (Now KUSA-TV) before moving to KMGH-TV. She hosted “Smith & Lynn” with Harry Smith on KRMA-TV and also hosted “Educator’s Edge” and MetroBeat-TV’s “People to Watch”.
Active in the Denver community she serves as a trustee of Regis University and is a member of the Denver Art Museum’s African American Outreach Task Force. She served for six years on the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District Board, an appointment made by Governor Roy Romer.
Lynn is an award-winning broadcast journalist. Recognition includes the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Heartland Chapter Silver Circle Inductee, an Emmy as Host of MetroBeat TV “People to Watch” for Interview/Discussion Program, an Emmy for Best News Anchor and another Emmy for Best Morning/Noon News, Colorado Association of Black Journalists President’s Award, CABJ Journalist of the Year for Broadcasting, CABJ Legacy award (renamed Bertha Lynn Legacy Award), University of Denver Distinguished Communicator Award and Girl Scouts Mile Hi Council Women’s Leadership Circle
Hal Moore
Legendary Denver broadcaster Hal Moore has achieved what few ever will: a lifelong career in radio.
Moore’s 40 plus years in radio include evening-show host and music director at KIMN in Denver, drive-time show host and music director at Cleveland’s WKYC and an unheard of 28 years on Denver’s KHOW, much of that time as co-host of the “Hal and Charley” morning show with Charley Martin.
In addition to his unique on-air work and roles as music and program director, Moore has also held the positions of operations and station manager. He has received the Gavin Music Director of the Year and Billboard’s AC Personality of the Year awards and been nominated for the Radio Hall of Fame.
Moore says, “Now I’m doing mornings playing 1950s and 1960s songs on the old KIMN 950 frequency; it seems so crazy to be back on the station that brought me to Denver in 1964, KRWZ (Cruisin’ 950) and the reaction has really been unbelievable … so many listeners missed hearing these songs … lots of fun for me. I’m continuing voicetracking the morning show on the True Country format for Dial-Global, formerly Jones Radio Oldies format.”
Stations where Moore has worked include: KSO, Des Moines, IA, 1959; KIOA, Des Moines, 1961; KIMN, Denver, 1964; WHK, Cleveland, OH, 1967; WKYC, Cleveland, 1968; and Denver stations KHOW, 1969; KEZW, 1996; KCKK, 1998; KXKL, 2001; Jones/Dial-Global Net, 2002; and KRWZ, 2008.
Herb Schubarth
Herb Schubarth is recognized as an outstanding technical innovator who used his skill and knowledge of electronics to consistently improve television broadcasting.
Schubarth served in the Navy in WWII where he taught radar electronics. Following his discharge in 1949 he was hired as a radio engineer at KRDO-AM in Colorado Springs but eleven months later was recalled to serve in the Korean War. After he returned to KRDO as the Chief Engineer, Schubarth was instrumental in designing and installing the technical TV facilities which put KRDO-TV on the air in 1953.
In 1961, KBTV Channel 9 in Denver, now KUSA-TV, hired Schubarth and never let him go. One of his early duties was to drive a remote truck from Washington, DC to Denver which was Channel 9’s first non-studio broadcast facility.
As Channel 9’s Chief Engineer by 1967, Schubarth was soon named to an additional position as Corporate Director of Engineering for Mullins Broadcasting and it’s successor Combined Communications Corporation.
He was named the VP of Engineering for Gannett Broadcasting and Combined Communications Corporation in 1981. While at Gannett he was a member of the capital committee overseeing and approving capital projects throughout the corporation. At retirement he was responsible for 16 TV stations and 13 radio stations.
Schubarth served as the President of the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for three years, and is a long time member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and a member of Maximum Service Telecasters (MST). In 1993 Herb received the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Engineering and Achievement Award.