Brad Johansen (born March 6, 1962) is the evening news anchor and reporter for

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. From 1996 to 2014, he was the sports director at

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, where he was announcing Bengals pre-season games. In 2000, Brad moved to the radio booth, replacing

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, who is the voice of the

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' football and women's basketball programs, having held this position prior to calling the Bengals broadcasts. On May 4, 2011 the Bengals announced that

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was hired as the new Bengals radio play-by-play announcer replacing Brad Johansen. On July 6, The Bengals announced Johansen was hired to replace Paul Keels as the TV play-by-play announcer for Bengals preseason games. In 2014, Johansen moved on from being the sports director and a play-by-play announcer for

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to anchoring the 4:00 and 5:30 pm newscasts at WKRC. In April 2018, Johansen left WKRC-TV to join

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as an evening news anchor and reporter. He was let go Thursday, April 4, 2019 after one year at the station. On March 6, 2020, Johansen returned to television, as an early evening news anchor and reporter for WCMH-TV in Columbus.

External links

Brad Johansen Biography

Brad Johnansen :: WRAL.com

References

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