Karl Stefan (March 1, 1884 – October 2, 1951) was a Czech-American politician, newspaper editor, publisher, and radio commentator from Nebraska.

Stefan, who announced WJAG's noon news report, opened his daily broadcast with a trademark greeting: "Hello friends.

In typical charismatic fashion, the local newscaster personalized a livestock quote on one of his noon reports.

In 1922, he originated the "radio family," whose members gathered around a mythical dinner table each noon hour.

In fewer than two years, WJAG dispensed hundreds of "official" titles to its listeners: mail carrier, banker, chicken-eater, crippled girl (Marie Bentz), sweetheart, corn-king (Art Breyer), hog-man, shoe-man, Scotchman (Bill Graham, and later, Don Bridge of Norfolk), goat trainer, goat milker, wolfhound-man, and mayor (J.

L. B. Musselman, a Civil War veteran and Nebraska pioneer, succeeded the late G. B. Salter as head of the family table.

Stefan was elected to U.S. Congress in 1934 and later became a member of congressional committee aiding inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth Government in Manila in 1935.

He died of acute cardiovascular collapse while in office on October 2, 1951, in Washington, D.C.[1] He was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Norfolk.