Bobbie Wygant (born 22/11/1926) is an American Journalist who currently is the oldest team member/worker in NBC 5 having spent 64 years of her career with the company. She works at NBC 5 as an entertainment journalist. She is a graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.^[1][2]

Born in Lafayette, Indiana. Graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette where she studied communicating and brain science and finished her degree with high grades.^[6][4]

Preoccupation Reporter and Critic Bobbie Wygant has experienced more than 70 years of her telecom calling with NBC 5. Bobbie joined NBC 5 fourteen days before the station went broadcasting live as WBAP-TV.

During the early years, Bobbie did live game shows, plugs and made and encouraged a live coordinated program for quite a while.

She is noted for her enormous name interviews everyone from Bob Hope to Bradley Cooper.

Bobbie Wygant was the chief woman in the Southwest to have an overall interest coordinated program and the essential supporter in the Southwest to present theater and movie reviews on TV.

In 2000, Bobbie got the "Savant's Critic Award" from her partner pack the National Broadcast Film Critics Association in Los Angeles.

In 2004, she got a National Emmy in Houston making her the seventeenth American broadcaster to be picked into its eminent Gold Circle for quite a while of broadcasting achievement.

In 2018 Bobbie stayed in contact with her diary Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant's Seventy Years on Television.

Bobbie's most trying on-air experience was Nov. 22, 1963 when her 30-minute coordinated program was barged in on six or on numerous occasions with declarations about the John F. Kennedy demise. Following each presentation.

Everything all began in 1948 by Amon G. Carter, WBAP (by and by KXAS) was the central TV channel west of the Mississippi, and Bobbie was there from the most punctual beginning stage. Like everyone on that early Channel 5 staff, Bobbie added to do a slight bit of everything- – making copy, performing live on-air shows, presenting notices – notwithstanding, she in a little while wound up known for the way in which she connected with VIPs. Looking from path back and tallying quantities of stars and renowned people Bobbie has run over, she has met a considerable number of individuals, any semblance of Bob Hope, Jane Fonda, and the likes.

Wygant was live detailing continuously with her noticeable late morning framework Dateline on November 22, 1963, when news broke of JFK's ^[5] passing. Two or three months sometime later, during their presentation journey through the United States, she met the Beatles.

Despite bewildering and every now and again fascinating records of her gatherings with the stars, Wygant's own view of TV broadcasting as it rose at WBAP-TV offer enthralling pieces of information into the most punctual phases of the present multi-billion-dollar industry.

This attracting and edifying volume consolidates more than 300 photographs of her favored whiz encounters.

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