JIM MCKEE

(This column originally ran Sept. 21, 2014)

Television broadcasting in Lincoln was scarcely a year old when 25-year-old Ron Hull was hired, and six decades later he is still there with no plans for a second retirement. Along the way, the industry had changed in ways even science fiction hardly could imagine.

The first television broadcast in Nebraska came in 1948; two years later the owners of Lincoln radio station KOLN applied for a license in the Capital City, and in 1951, the Regents of the University of Nebraska applied for UHF channel 18 for educational broadcasting.

In 1952, KOLN’s television’s application was approved and construction of its original studios and offices began at 40th and W streets. On Feb. 18, 1953, at 4:45 p.m., KOLN TV, then on channel 12, began broa

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