The Bobbie Wygant Archive

Entertainment Reporter and Critic Bobbie Wygant has spent all 68 years of her broadcasting career with NBC 5. Bobbie joined NBC 5 two weeks before the station went on the air as WBAP-TV. To quote Bobbie, "they poured me in with the foundation."

Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Bobbie came to Texas with a degree in broadcasting and psychology from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

During the early years Bobbie did live game shows, commercials and produced and hosted a live talk show for 16 years. She is noted for her celebrity interviews everyone from Bob Hope to Rob Pattinson.

Bobbie was the first woman in the Southwest to host a general interest talk show and the first broadcaster in the Southwest to present theater and movie reviews on television. Click here for a look at Bobbie through the years in a NBC DFW Facebook Fan Page Album.

In 2000, Bobbie received the "Critic's Critic Award" from her peer group the National Broadcast Film Critics Association in Los Angeles.

In 2004, she received a National Emmy in Houston making her the 17th American broadcaster to be elected into its prestigious Gold Circle for 50 years of broadcasting achievement.

Bobbie's most challenging on-air experience was Nov. 22, 1963 when her 30-minute talk show was interrupted six or seven times with bulletins about the John F. Kennedy assassination. Following each announcement she was instructed to "pick up where you left off." She did.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Bobbie Wygant Tours Channel 5 Building

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Bobbie in her new meeting room at the new NBC 5 building!

Bobbie Wygant's Legacy Honored in New Building

Monday, August 5, 2013

Classic Interview: Woody Allen for A Midsummers Night Sex Comedy

Classic Interview:John Ritter for "Skin Deep"

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Paul Simon for "One Trick Pony"

Classic Interview: Christopher Reeve for "Monsignor"

Classic Interview:Dudley Moore for "Lovesick"

Classic Interview: Dudley Moore for Like Father, Like Son

Classic Interview: Jack Lemmon for "Tribute"

Classic Interview: Jack Lemmon for "Missing"

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Dustin Hoffman for "Tootsie"

Classic Interview: Mel Gibson and George Miller for Mad Max:Beyond Thunderdome

Classic Interview: Blake Edwards for "Skin Deep"

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Bette Davis

Classic Interview: R. Lee Ermey for "Full Metal Jacket"

Classic Interview: Rodney Dangerfield for "Easy Money"

Classic Interview:Chase, Murray, Dangerfield, and Knight for Caddyshack

Classic Interview: Beverly D'Angelo for "Vacation"

Classic Interview: Chevy Chase for "Vacation"

Interview and Story Archive