FYI: Roadshow Names Correspondent

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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WGBH Boston has named syndication, Black Entertainment Television, QVC Inc. and local TV veteran Clay Reynolds as a correspondent on its new Antiques Roadshow spinoff, Antiques Roadshow FYI.

The 26 half-hour series, which launches Jan. 19, 2005, will feature updates, appraiser profiles and other Road Show-related, magazine-style stories.

Among Reynold's credits are creating BET Shop, billed as the first home shopping show targeted to African Americans, and hosting, as well as hosting duties on QVC and syndicated talker, Danny!.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.