Ronald J. Ebben
Morning Edition HostRonald J. Ebben has 50 years of experience in broadcast news. Ron’s first assignment was covering the Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election in Peoria, Ill. His first News Director position was in 1963 at a Fort Worth, Texas, radio station. He carried Kennedy speech in downtown Fort Worth before JFK was assassinated later that morning in Dallas. And he was in the newsroom to see those fateful words come over United Press International wire: the “president had been shot.” Ron served as News Director for Tampa Bay stations from 1968 to 1990 and hosted the “Live with the Governor” statewide call-in show with Gov. Bob Martinez. In 1990, he became News Director of a statewide network with 26 affiliates. From 1991 to 2000 Ron was News Director at WTNT and Program Director for WNLS. Since 2000 Ron has served as :Morning Edition: host for WFSU News.
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A newly released 911 call captures the desperate scene as Florida State University fraternity members struggled to revive 20-year-old Andrew Coffey, who… -
Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown says he'll challenge Congressman Al Lawson in this year's Democratic primary. The seat was redrawn two years ago… -
Florida State University President John Thrasher began his fourth year in the job Wednesday with his annual “State of the University” address to the… -
Each week seems to bring a new wrinkle in the FBI investigation into the city of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Democrat has been on top of the story.… -
The Tallahassee City Commission voted last night to have the city post online all public records that have been provided to a federal grand jury… -
Marco Rubio is getting clobbered by Donald Trump in his home state of Florida, where a Quinnipiac University poll shows the front runner is polling at an… -
The Florida legislature's Joint Legislative Auditing Committee wants to know whether the Leon County School District has made changes to construction… -
The Florida Supreme Court has removed Leon County Judge Judith Hawkins from the bench. Hawkins sold her religious books from her office to lawyers and… -
A state legislative House panel has approved a plan aimed at compensating an elderly man wrongfully accused of one of the worst mass murders in Florida… -
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Governor Rick Scott's request to review a lower court ruling declaring his state employee drug testing policy…
