The Bobbie Wygant Archive: September 2010

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.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Classic Interview: Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase for "Spies Like Us"

Classic Interview: Henry Mancini

Classic Interview: Louis Malle for Alamo Bay

Classic Interview: Oliver Stone for Platoon

Friday, September 24, 2010

Classic Review: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Special Message From Tom Hanks

Special Message From George W. Bush

Classic Interview: George Burns

Monday, September 20, 2010

Classic Interview: Jamie Lee Curtis for Perfect

Classic Interview: Chevy Chase for European Vacation

Classic Interview: Richard Donner for Ladyhawke

Classic Interview: Kate Capshaw

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Theater Report: Blue Man Group

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Classic Interview: Billy Crystal

Classic Interview: Sir Richard Attenborough

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Classic Interview: John Cusack

Classic Interview: Kevin Costner 1985

Classic Interview: Robert Duvall

Monday, September 13, 2010

Classic Interview: Cher

Classic Interview: Jerry Lewis

Classic Interview: James Cameron for the Abyss

Classic Interview: Roseanna Arquette

Classic Interview: Heather Locklear

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