Guest For  FRIDAY MARCH 18, 2005

                               (Originally aired: 5-25-98)

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                            GIL NOBLE

                

Veteran newsman Gil Noble Emmy Award-winning host of WABC-TV's Like It Is.

    Television Reporter Commentator Producer 

                Host of WABC -TV's "Like It is"

              AEI Speakers Bureau -- Speaker Biography

       http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/ontv/WABC_likeit_is.html

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Gil Noble Related Topics:

Current Events, News and Politics
Diversity
African-American

Gil Noble, producer and host of WABC TV's weekly public affairs series, "Like It Is," is recognized locally and nationally as a dedicated journalist whose work has been a part of the struggle of African Americans for advancement.

Noble spends long hours of research and investigation to ensure consistently high quality programming through "Like It Is," and has received over 650 community awards, numerous industry awards including seven Emmys, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, and five honorary doctorates.

Over the years, Noble has interviewed many prominent figures in our society, including the following heads of state: Sekou Ture (Guinea), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Michael Manley and P.J. Patterson (Jamaica), Maurice Bishop (Grenada), Sam Nujoma (Namibia), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), and Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso). In entertainment, his interviews have included Bill Cosby, Erroll Garner, Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Carmen McCrae, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Nipsey Russell, Lena Horne, Wynton Marsalis, Milt Jackson and Jackie Mclean.

In sports, Noble has interviewed Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Arthur Ashe, and Jim Brown. Noble has interviewed such political figures as: Jesse Jackson, David Dinkins, Harold Washington, Louis Farrakhan, Andrew Young, Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Bruce Wright. He has also done the following documentaries: W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X(3), Paul Robeson(2), Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Decade of Struggle, M.L. King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Jack Johnson, Charlie Parker, Essay on Drugs.

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Gil Noble
Producer and Host
"Like It Is"

Gil Noble, producer and host of WABC-TV's weekly public affairs series, "Like It Is," is recognized locally and nationally as a dedicated journalist whose work has been a part of the struggle of African Americans for advancement.

Noble spends long hours of research and investigation to ensure consistently high quality programming through "Like It Is."

Noble has received over 650 community awards, numerous industry awards including seven Emmys, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, and five honorary doctorates.

"'Like It Is'" offers a rare opportunity to our viewers of all races," observes Noble, "to look at current and past events through an African-American perspective."

Interviews:

Heads of State:
Sekou Ture (Guinea), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Michael Manley and P.J. Patterson (Jamaica), Maurice Bishop (Grenada), Sam Nujoma (Namibia), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), and Thomas Sankara (Burkina-Faso).

Entertainment:
Bill Cosby, Erroll Garner, Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Carmen McCrae, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Nipsey Russell, Lena Horne, Wynton Marsalis, Milt Jackson and Jackie Mclean.

Sports:
Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Arthur Ashe, and Jim Brown.

Politics/Leaders:
Jesse Jackson, David Dinkins, Harold Washington, Louis Farrakhan, Andrew Young, Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Bruce Wright.

Documentaries:
W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X(3), Paul Robeson(2), Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Decade of Struggle, M.L. King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Jack Johnson, Charlie Parker, Essay on Drugs.

 

Friday  March 18, 2005

 /  10:30 - 11:30 AM  / (NYC Time)

Channel 34 of the Time/Warner &Channel 107 of the RCN 
Cable Television Systems in Manhattan, New York.

The Program can now be viewed on the internet at the time of cable casting at: 

www.mnn.org

NOTE: You must adjust viewing to reflect NYC time & click on channel 34 at site.

Note: You might check ahead of time if the stream is available 

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