An honor well deserved was formally handed to KVOE Sports Director Greg Rahe on Thursday.
Rahe picked up the Kansas Association of Broadcasters’ Hod Humiston Award during the KAB’s annual Sports Seminar at Kauffman Stadium. Rahe joined KVOE in 1987 after graduating from Fort Hays State. Originally the voice of Emporia High sports, Rahe became the voice of Emporia State football and basketball in 1988 and has handled those duties since then.
The honor is given to sportscasters who have made significant contributions to the field and the community, and Rahe has certainly done both. He has won numerous awards from the KAB for play-by-play, sportscasts and sports features, and he has been active with Messiah Lutheran Church and the Boy Scouts.
Rahe says it’s a humbling honor because he’s now in the same company as many of the broadcasters he has looked up to during his career.
Humiston, meanwhile, was a founder and co-owner of KSKU Radio and also worked for KWBW and KWHK in Hutchinson. He was also the first TV sportscaster in Kansas, doing college play-play-play for KTVH, which is now KWCH in Wichita.
