The Nebraska Broadcasters Association has announced two new inductees into the NBA Hall of Fame. Marty Riemenschneider and Chuck Stevens are the latest names on that honor roll.

They will be inducted in a ceremony on August 11th in Omaha during the NBA’s 81st Annual Convention. They will be the respective 93rd and 94th members of the NBA Hall of Fame, which was established in 1972.

Marty Riemenschneider spent 44 years as a broadcaster. He began his radio career in sales in 1971 in Kentucky and became station manager before buying WQRL in Benton, Illinois in 1985.

Marty moved to Nebraska in 1986 as Mitchell Broadcasting’s General Sales Manager for KQKQ, KLNG and KKAR in Omaha. In 1990, he became Executive Vice President & General Manager for Mitchell’s Omaha radio stations and in 1992 was named Mitchell’s first "group head,” overseeing all 15 of Mitchell’s radio stations across Nebraska.

In 2002, Marty became President/Executive Director of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association. Marty retired at the end of 2014 and currently consults on the NBA History Project. He is also Senior Vice-Commander of VFW Post #1581 in Omaha and serves as the State Public Information Director for the Nebraska VFW.

Stevens enjoyed a 52-year career on Lincoln radio and TV.

After working in radio in Colorado and TV and radio in South Dakota, Chuck joined KOLN TV in 1960 as a staff announcer. He joined KLIN radio in 1966 while doing KOLN weekend sports until 1982. He left KLIN in 1972 and spent 10 years at KLMS in sales, where he started doing sports.

In 1982, Chuck joined KFOR as Sports Director where he would go on to air more than 2,000 play-by-play broadcasts of area high school and college football and basketball games.

Chuck retired from broadcasting in 2012. In 2014, he was inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame where he serves as a volunteer.

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