The Bobbie Wygant Archive: 2015

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.

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Star Wars: The '77 and '80 Interviews!

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Bobbie Wygant in Cowtown Stardom

Gustave Caillebotte at Kimbell

Friday, June 26, 2015

Interview: Michael Jenkins for "An American in Paris"

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Interview: Blythe Danner for "Ill See You in My Dreams"

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Interview: Eric Lee at The Kimbell

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Interview: Iris Apfel for "Iris"

Friday, April 3, 2015

Interview: Rachel York for "The King and I"

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Interview: Betty Buckley "in My Own Backyard"

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Interview: Ruta Lee for Steel Magnolias

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Leonard Nimoy for "Star Trek II"

Classic Interview: Leonard Nimoy for "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"

Interview: Leonard Nimoy for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Interview: Jaston Williams for "Tru" (2015)

Interview and Story Archive