2012 Hall of Fame Inductees
Dick Brehm
For nearly 30 years, Dick Brehm was on Denver radio. He started at KHOW in 1958 as an announcer and an engineer for baseball and basketball home games (he also created and produced recreations of away games). He produced and hosted at KGMC AM from 1961 to 1964 and for the next three years was afternoon DJ at Gene Amole’s KDEN.
In 1967 Brehm joined Denver’s Classical KVOD, where in the beginning he was on air 12 hours a day (6 hours live and 6 hours recorded). For 20 years his distinctive voice was heard on KVOD, where he also served as program director.
Rolly Dalquist
Rolly Dalquist (Carl Rollwyn Dalquist) joined KLZ TV in 1956 while still in the army following service in Korea and Japan.
He started as a part time news photographer, becoming Chief of News Photography and a nationally honored documentary producer. Among others, he wrote, directed and produced the 1967 Emmy Award winning documentary “The Road to Nowhere”
For over a decade he was a producer for the commercial production arm of Channel 7. For nearly 20 years, he was a public relations executive, founding “Dalquist Communications” in 1982.
Dalquist passed away in 2005.
Lee Douglas
Lee Douglas (Douglas Lee Cooley) began his broadcasting career in 1973, the same year he graduated high school in Pueblo. He worked part-time at KDZA radio while attending CSU-Pueblo, going full-time after graduation.
For the better part of thirty years, Douglas reported sports in Southern Colorado. He joined KOAA TV in 1979 as a sports broadcaster. He left briefly in the 1980s to become an assistant city manager of Pueblo. In 2000, he was named KOAA News 5/30 sports director.
He served as color commentator for Air Force Academy Football for seven seasons, and for years hosted an oldies show on KDZA.
Douglas passed away unexpectedly on Super Bowl Sunday, 2012.
Ron Mitchell
Ron Mitchell began his broadcasting career in 1960 on Denver’s KICN radio. He also was on air at KOSI AM, KXXI, KMOR and KBTR.
In 1971 he moved from KBTR radio to sister station KBTV Channel 9, which would become KUSA. In 1973 he did a five part series and half an hour documentary on the construction of the Eisenhower Tunnel, and continued his excellent reporting on 9News for 25 years.
In addition to reporting, he also worked as assignment editor, backup news and sports anchor and weekend anchor— but he is best known for his work as a field reporter.
Gil Mueller
Military veteran Gil Mueller joined KLZ-TV in 1951, two years before the station signed on the air.
In addition to engineering work for KLZ radio, he modified an old Packard garage to become TV studios and installed and maintained the studio equipment, news cameras and remote trucks.
His engineering skills put Channel 7 on the air and he developed and built technical TV equipment replicated by stations nationwide. He frequently provided engineering assistance to others, and received recognition from RCA for solving a problem for them.
Mueller retired from KMGH in 1987.