Bobby Rivers, an American tv and radio character and actor died peacefully at age 70, Media Take Out has realized.
BBobby Rivers was the host of the High 5 present on the Meals Community, and Watch Bobby Rivers, a prime-time celeb speak present on VH1. Bobby was one of many first Black leisure reporters on tv, and he was overtly and proudly homosexual.
Bobby Rivers’ first tv look was on a 1970 syndicated traditional movie trivia recreation present. He was a highschool scholar. Throughout these occasions on “The Film Recreation”, shot in Hollywood, he was this system’s first African-American contestant and its youngest winner.
After working in Milwaukee radio, he made his skilled tv debut in 1979 on Milwaukee’s ABC affiliate, WISN-TV, as the town’s first African-American movie critic on TV.
Throughout that point, he was tapped to audition as a attainable film critic alternative when Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert left Chicago PBS for Disney syndication. In 1984, he’d moved as much as co-host and affiliate producer of a dwell weekday present on WISN.
n 1992, he was approached to be a existence and leisure reporter on native WNBC TV’s “Weekend As we speak in New York” and WNYW-TV’s “Good Day New York.” For the latter, he was employed as a alternative for Australian character Gordon Elliott who had left. Rivers has carried out onstage, and appeared on the tv present The Sopranos.
In 2000, he was the Leisure Editor on “Lifetime Dwell”, an ABC Information/Lifetime TV weekday journal hour. He additionally labored on digital camera with its hosts, Deborah Roberts and the late Dana Reeve. After the cancellation of “Lifetime Dwell” he hosted Meals Community’s “High 5” in 2002.
