Roger Bell

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For the bomber Roger Charles Bell, see Roger Charles Bell.

Roger Bell (born 1944), now of Bell Talent, Inc., is an American television news executive and former Vice President of News for flagship stations KABC-TV and KCBS-TV, both in Los Angeles, CA. Bell was replaced at KCBS-TV in 2001 by Princell Hair, the former General Manager of CNN and former Vice President of News for Viacom Stations.

Bell hired and worked with a number of individuals in the news industry, including Paul Moyer, now of KNBC-TV. He also headed up news departments at KVBC-TV in Las Vegas and KMGH-TV in Denver. He served as Executive Producer of News for WNBC-TV in New York and as Assignment Editor of NBC Network News in Washington, D.C. He has been referred to by the National Association of Broadcasters as a television news icon.^{[citation needed]}

Bell, a talent agent since 2003, now owns and operates the boutique news talent agency, Bell Talent operating in the Los Angeles area. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.