Television news icon Tom Brokaw and award-winning radio journalist Warren Olney will receive top honors at the 62nd annual Golden Mike Awards gala in Universal City, the Radio and Television News Association announced.

Brokaw will receive the RTNA’s 2012 Broadcast Legend Award and Olney will be honored for his broad achievements in television news as well as his storied career over 20 years on public radio stations, both locally and nationally. Warren Olney is the host of two acclaimed radio news interview programs, Which Way LA, now in its 20th year in the Los Angeles area, and To the Point, syndicated by Public Radio International to major-market stations nationwide since 2000. Both programs originate from KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif.

Warren Olney and Tom Brokaw to be honored

Prior to his radio career, Olney worked for 35 years as a television reporter and anchor in Washington D.C., Sacramento, and Los Angeles, including stints with the ABC-, NBC- and CBS-owned television stations in LA. The award-winning journalist was also an anchor at public television station KCET in Los Angeles. Olney will receive the RTNA’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tom Brokaw remains one of the most familiar faces in broadcast news, serving as the managing editor and anchor of the NBC Nightly News for more than two decades. He is the only person to have regularly anchored NBC’s three major news programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and Meet The Press. He is
now a special correspondent for NBC News and a documentary producer and anchor.

Brokaw is also the author of the best seller The Greatest Generation and is currently climbing best-seller charts with his latest book, The Time of Our Lives.

The awards will be presented on Saturday, Jan. 21st at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City as part of a show honoring the best in radio, television, and internet broadcast journalism in Southern California.

The Golden Mikes are presented annually by the Radio & Television News Assn. of Southern California, the non-profit group representing broadcast newsrooms in Los Angeles, San Diego, and all of the other markets from Bakersfield south to the Mexican border.

Note: edited photo of Olney from his website, Brokaw from a photo on Wikipedia by David Shankbone.