The Bobbie Wygant Archive: August 2017

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.

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Interview: Morgana Shaw for "All About Bette" 2017

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Classic Interview: Jerry Seinfeld for “The Bee Movie” 10-2-07

Classic Interview: Shane Caruth for “Primer” 9-22-04

Classic Interview: Alfonso Cuaron for “Children of Men” 12-06

Classic Interview: Oliver Stone for “World Trade Center” 7-19-06

Classic Interview: Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen for “The Astronaut’s Wife”

Classic Interview: Sylvester Stallone for “Rocky Balboa” 12-7-06

Classic Interview: Wim Wenders for “Don’t Come Knocking” 3-17-06

Classic Interview: Will Ferrell for Talladega Nights 7-19-06

Classic Interview: Kevin Spacey for "Beyond the Sea" 12-04

Classic Interview: Dakota Fanning for "Dreamer"

Classic Interview: The Rock for “The Rundown” 9-16-03-

Classic Interview: Michael Keaton for “White Noise” 12/04

Classic Interview: Cameron Crowe for “Elizabethtown” 10/5/05

Classic Interview: Gaspard Ulliel for "A Very Long Engagement" 11-15-04

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