WVPB’s Yohe Inducted Into Broadcasting Hall Of Fame

Broadcast journalists come into our homes, or ride with us in our cars, and keep us informed, entertained and inspired. But some of them make an even bigger impact.  

This year six of them were inducted into the Museum of Radio and Technology’s West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame Tuesday including West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s very own Randy Yohe.  

This was the 21^st year for the annual event.  

Yohe is an adjunct professor of broadcast journalism at Marshall University. He spent 24 years at WSAZ-TV and three years at WOWK-TV. For the past eight years he’s worked as a feature reporter, statehouse reporter and the Marshall/Huntington bureau chief for West Virginia Public Broadcasting. 

Yohe is a two-time National Press Foundation Fellow and the 2025 Associated Press of the Virginias Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Most recently, he was selected for an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by the Television Academy Foundation in Hollywood. 

For Yohe, the story is the thing.  

“I tried to be a storyteller,” he said before the ceremony. “That’s what I’ve always tried to do. Make sure that anything you do, from the smallest little piece to the biggest documentary, has a beginning, middle, and an end and tells a good story and it’s good about people. And that’s what I’ve always tried to do.” 

Yohe moved to West Virginia from Michigan early in his career.  

“I figured that I’ve now lived in West Virginia more years than I’ve lived in all other states I’ve lived in combined,” he said. “So that kind of makes me an honorary West Virginian. And so with being in the West Virginia Broadcast Hall of Fame, it’s an honor that I’ve had a chance to work in commercial television and radio, and then some of my best and most memorable work was with public broadcasting.” 

After college and an on-air stint in Savannah, Georgia, his career in West Virginia began in 1988. 

“Who would have thought that a born feature reporter would become the government reporter for West Virginia Public Broadcasting? But I’ve loved it,” Yohe said.  

As for his foray into teaching, “I was hired to teach them the way I learned to report, and so I’m teaching broadcast journalism. I’m teaching students to do TV packages, to do radio reports, to do the things that I did and in the way that I learned them, although I’m learning as much from them,” he said.   

Other members of the class of 2026 are Alan Dye, Jim Damron, Will Shumate, Dave Allen, Michele Crist and Susan Nicholas.