Rich Brenner

Former Fox 8 Sports Director Rich Brenner is the newest member of the Triad Today roundtable. His career as a broadcaster and journalist goes back over 40 years, starting in his college years. Rich broadcast his first football game over the radio with play-by-play reports in October of 1965. During the summer of 1967 in Vietnam, Rich served as a fully-accredited news correspondent representing the collegiate point of view. He is also a former Captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

He began full-time television sportscasting at WLVA (now WSET) in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1975. Since then, Rich has worked in Portsmouth, Virginia; Raleigh-Durham; and Chicago, Illinois. He came to Fox 8 in 1987 as sports anchor and retired in April of 2008. A member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science prestigious Silver Circle, Rich has won three Southeast Region Emmys and a National Iris Award.

Rich and his wife, Judy, have been married for 30 years and live in Greensboro. He enjoys sports of all kinds and motorcycle riding, including six cross-country rides with Kyle Petty's Charity Ride Across America. Judy Brenner is a crime analyst with the Greensboro Police Department. Their son Shawn is an aspiring country music drummer and lives in Nashville, while daughter Lesley lives in Greensboro.