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Bruce Rader is an American journalist and news anchor. He is currently the anchor of the weekday edition of WUSA-TV's evening newscast in Washington, D.C. He has been with the station since 1982. Rader was born in 1955 in George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1977 with a degree in broadcast journalism. Rader began his career in broadcasting in 1977 at WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C. He then moved to WJLA-TV in 1982, where he has been ever since. He has been the anchor of the weekday edition of WUSA-TV's evening newscast since 1989. Rader has won numerous awards for his work, including the National Press Club's John Aubuchon Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence Award, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Emmy Award. Rader is married to his wife, Mary, and they have two children. He is an avid golfer and enjoys traveling.

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2012

Bruce was honored with the 48th annual Tidewater Humanitarian Award by the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities in 2012. In 2007 Rader was the recipient of the George A. Bowles, Jr. Broadcast Journalism Award from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. The award is presented every year to a broadcast news journalist who has longevity in Virginia broadcasting, is respected by his peers and who exhibits enthusiasm for his work and the community. In 2006 Bruce was presented the Abe Goldblatt Memorial Award by the Norfolk Sports Club, a lifetime achievement award.

2005

In 2005 Rader was inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association CIAA Hall of Fame. Established in 1912, the CIAA is the nation's oldest black athletic conference, rich in history and heritage. He is a multiple winner of the "CIAA Sportscaster of the Year" award, he was twice honored as the "Tidewater Sportscaster of the Year", and the Virginia Beach Alumni Chapter at Norfolk State University honored him with an award for Excellence in Sports Media. Honors also include multiple "Best Sports Award" from the Associated Press, "Sportscaster of the Year" from Virginia's United Press International as well as a "District Leadership Award" from the United Negro College Fund. Bruce has also been inducted into the Peninsula (Hampton) Baseball Hall of Fame. He is a lifetime member of the Portsmouth Sports Club.

1996

Rader covered the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia and the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was selected to carry the Olympic Torch in both 1996 through Charlottesville, VA and 2002 near the Pentagon. He has also covered six Super Bowls for WAVY, including all four Washington Redskins appearances during the Joe Gibbs era.

1980

Rader started hosting the Jerry Lewis Telethon in 1980, and has been recognized by the Tall Cedars of Lebanon for Outstanding Service. He lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

1979

In 1975 Rader was hired by news director Tony Burton as the assignment editor at WVEC TV, the ABC affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1977 he joined WAVY-TV, a Lin Broadcasting 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 was 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 way. During his coverage of Super Bowl XVII in 1983, he broadcast the first live newscast in Hampton Roads television history from Costa Mesa, California. Rader's obsession with local sports coverage on a local station, especially high school events and feature events, served him well as ESPN and other national cable channels gained popularity. He continues to anchor the daily sports segments weeknights on WAVY-TV, and is the host of the Fox 43 Sportswrap every night at 10:45 on Fox 43. He is also the host of the weekly Old Dominion Football Show with Coach Bobby Wilder, the Washington Huddle Redskins Show shown in the Hampton Roads, Richmond, Roanoke and Hagerstown, Maryland markets, and the popular high school football show Friday Night Flights.

1974

In 1974 Rader began his television career working in the newsroom at WMAL-TV (ABC) during the final days of Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He was a spotter for 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 (sports director)|Steve Bassett before moving to Norfolk.

1954

Bruce Rader (1954) is an American broadcaster who has been the sports director of WAVY-TV and WVBT-TV in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach market since 1978. In 2017 Rader received the Gold & Silver Circle Ceremony Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honoring him for a lifetime of significant contributions to the broadcast industry. In 2018 he was the first person inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Media Hall of Fame. While he is the longest active anchor in the Hampton Roads market, he is known as much for his community service as his on-air career.

Bruce was born Bruce Reed Rader at George Washington University Hospital in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. on March 11, 1954, the son of Audrey and Orth Rader. He grew up in the Randolph Hills area of Rockville, Maryland and attended Rocking Horse Road Elementary School, Randolph Junior High School and graduated from Wheaton High School in Wheaton, Maryland. His first broadcasting job came when he was hired by the late Pierre Eaton, the owner and general manager of his hometown radio station, WINX Radio, in Rockville, Maryland. There he hosted a high school sports show and did play by play for local high school football games on WINX, and did a weekly college basketball show highlighting the University of Maryland basketball team known as "Terrapin Talk". During some of these games he was joined by then University of Maryland basketball All-American Len Elmore who after a successful career in the NBA became a well known college basketball broadcaster for CBS Sports and ESPN.