Romi Bean didn’t take the job to make history or make a statement. She simply wanted to chase her passion.
“I love sports, I love my job and I love this Colorado community,” she said. “But I never thought I’d be the first to do something like this.”
Shortly after Channel 4 announced Bean’s promotion, she also heard from Marcia Neville and Susie Wargin, female trailblazers in Denver TV sports. Wargin is the sideline reporter for KOA radio’s Broncos coverage and beginning in 1998 she worked on KOA’s “Sports Zoo” with Dave Logan and Scott Hastings. Wargin became the first full-time female sports anchor at the radio station in 2000. In 2004, Wargin began working at Channel 9 as the sports anchor for the morning show.“I saw Romi in the locker room after the Broncos-Chiefs game when the announcement came that Michael was taking over for Jim Benemann,” Wargin recalled.
In her senior year at Cherry Creek, Bean, who has a background in dance, became a Broncos cheerleader. She performed for five seasons before moving to Los Angeles. She was a young woman still searching for her career. She tried her hand at real estate for a while before realizing, “I’m so bad at this, I’ll never sell a thing in my life.”“I dabbled in numismatics,” she said with a grin. “Like I said, I took a very weird path.
“Andy said, ‘You are kind of a natural at this,’ ” Bean recalled. “Deep down, I always wanted to get into the business but I didn’t go to journalism school, so I thought that ship had probably sailed.”
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