Ryan Halloran

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Description: Ryan Halloran was a fixture on WAVE-TV for nearly four decades, beginning the day it went on the air in 1948 as the first television station to broadcast in Kentucky. By that time he was already known as a morning announcer on WAVE radio, having moved to Louisville for the job in 1946. During much of the 1950s, Halloran anchored the morning news and also delivered the weather or a news report on the late news at 11 p.m. Halloran was named host of The Morning Show when it went on the air in 1961. He and co-host Julie Shaw ushered in Kentucky’s first live telecast in color in 1962 with that mid-morning show. He showed up every Monday for more than 45 years at APH to read Newsweek magazine. Halloran grew up in Canton, Minnesota, where he’d been a star high school basketball player. He won an audition contest at a local radio station to become an announcer, setting his career course. He was a radio announcer in Minneapolis and Duluth before World War II. During the war, he spent four years in the Army, part of them as a war bond announcer. Ryan died in 2010.