Longtime CT News Anchor To Trade In The Mic For Retirement

CONNECTICUT — Kevin Hogan, one of Connecticut's legendary television news anchors, has decided to retire, ending a nearly 50-year career in radio and television news broadcasting.

Hogan anchored his final newscast at WFSB-TV over the weekend, but intends to continue reporting to the end of the month, according to The Laurel.

"Say it ain’t so @newspeddler," wrote WFSB sports anchor Marc Robbins on Twitter, referring to Hogan by his Twitter handle. "Happy Retirement Kevin!!! The place won’t be the same without you."

Hogan is a Connecticut native, born in New Haven and raised in Ansonia, who graduated from Kolbe High School in Bridgeport.

He began his broadcasting career at WXCI-FM, the radio station at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, according to his bio. During that period, he also interned at WNEW-TV's "The Ten O'Clock News" with Bill Jorgensen.

By the late 1970s, Hogan was anchoring mornings on New Haven's WELI-AM, joining veteran broadcaster Ron Rohmer, and he ushered in the 1980s by becoming an award-winning news director at WAVZ and WKCI (KC101).

He was tapped to be a special correspondent for WFSB to cover Pope John Paul II's historic trip to Cuba in 1997, and he's been a fixture at the station ever since.

Enjoy retirement, Kevin. You deserve it.