Bob Becker has worked as a journalist and broadcaster in Northeast Ohio since the late 1970s. He has won numerous awards for his work as a radio and TV reporter and television documentary producer. In 1994 he and Luanne Bole-Becker formed their own video production company, BB Sound & Light Ltd.
BB Sound & Light debuted to the public in September 1994 with the Emmy Award-winning Home Team, a PBS documentary focusing on baseball in Cleveland from the pre-Civil War period through the mid 20th-century. Produced in association with WVIZ-TV in Cleveland, it aired in conjunction with Ken Burns’ epic Baseball series. In the years since then, BB Sound & Light has produced a variety of award-winning long-form PBS documentaries, more than 50 program segments for the PBS series Applause, and a wide range of educational and informational videos and television commercials.
Along with his video production work, Bob Becker maintains a strong presence in the Northeast Ohio market as television co-host of the statewide Ohio Lottery drawing; and as air personality and talk show host at WTAM. Other commercial voice-over and on-camera clients include Allstate, BP America, Curtis Industries, Ernst & Young, Ohio Bell, Ohio Governor’s Office, Parker Hannifin, Progressive Insurance, and Society Bank.
Becker honed his video production skills as reporter and producer with WKYC-TV. It was there that Becker produced the Emmy Award-winning series, Racism, in 1988. His switch to television news has allowed him to expand upon a highly successful 29-year career in Cleveland radio with WMJI, WWWE, WGAR, WERE, WMMS, and WNCR. At these stations, Becker has served as news director, air personality, morning anchor, street reporter, writer and producer of documentaries and man-on-the-street surveys, and public affairs host.
Bob Becker has been honored with two Emmy Awards from the Cleveland Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), four Cleveland Press Club Awards, six Cleveland Radio-TV Council Awards, and the Gannett Top News Award for his broadcast production work. In 1990, Bob Becker was also chosen as one of Cleveland Magazine’s “Most Interesting People.”
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