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Texas Best Metropolitan Newspaper

Texas Best Talk Radio Show, 1996

  • Mark Davis Show
    WBAP Radio 820 AM
    Dallas, Texas
    9:00 AM to Noon.
    Award winning conservative talk show.

Texas Best Radio Personality, Hall of Fame

  • Terry Dorsey
    KSCS Radio
    Host of one of the nations top country radio stations. Billboard personality of the year nominee five of the last six years.
  • Bill Mack
    WBAP Radio
    Host of Country Crossroads and the truckers radio program The Midnight Cowboy on WBAP. Wrote the song Blue for Patsy Cline who was killed before she could record it. The song sat on the shelf for all these years untill Bill Mack herd Le Anne Rimes and offered her the song.

Texas Best Television Journalist, Hall of Fame

  • Sam Donaldson
    http://www.wchstv.com/abc_prog/samdonaldson.html
    El Paso, Texas
    Born 3-11-1934
    The Washington Journalism Review named him the Best Television White House Correspondent in the Business in 1985, and the Best Television Correspondent in the Business in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Mr. Donaldson has won many other awards, among them three Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. Anchor on Prime Time Live and This Week with David Brinkley.
  • Dan Rather
    http://web3.starwave.com/showbiz/memorybank/starbios/danrather/index.html
    Wharton, Texas
    Born10-31-1931
    Rather's reports on the J.F.K. assassination, Vietnam, and Watergate (his on-air confrontations made headlines) impressed the public on a nightly basis. Then, Rather helped make a Sunday-night news program, 60 Minutes, the nation's highest-rated.
  • Walter Cronkite (Honorary Texan, St Joseph, Mo.)
    Born 11-4-1916
    Mr. Cronkite has gathered numerous awards during his outstanding career, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award, the National Association of Broadcasters' Distinguished Service Award, The William Allen White Award for Journalistic Merit, a special George Foster Peabody Award, and several Emmys. He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1985. Walter was also the announcer for the Light Crust Doughboys in 1934.
  • Bill Moyers, (Honorary Texan)
    Born 6-5-1934 in Oklahoma and raised in Marshall, Texas
    http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~mysticfire/NIBMoyers.html
    Marshall, Texas
    During his 25 years of broadcasting, Moyers has received many major awards, including over 30 Emmys; the Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians; the George Foster Peabody Award for political reporting and international coverage; and the prestigious Gold Baton which is the highest honor of the Alfred I. duPont/Columbia University Award. He was also one of the first three persons to be awarded the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the American Film Institute.
  • Stone Phillips
    Waxahatchi, Texas
    Anchor of NBC's Dateline News Magazine.

Texas Best Statewide Television Program

  • Texas Country Reporter
    Phillips Productions Inc.
    1323 N. Stemmons Frwy.
    Dallas, Texas 75207
    Bob Phillips has hosted and produced 25 Years of this weekly series about rural Texas and out of the way Texas people. Still going srong statewide.

Texas Best Local Television Anchor Person, Hall of Fame

  • Chip Moody
    http://www.wfaa.com/moody.html
    WFAA TV, Dallas, Texas
    Chip has worked for KXAS-TV Channel 5 for almost 10 years, then KDFW Channel 4 until 1984, then to Houston, and back to Dallas/Fort Worth and Channel 8 in 1987, where he is a favorate today.

Texas Best Local Television Weatherperson, Hall of Fame

  • Harold Taft
    KXAS TV
    http://www.kxas.com/taft.html
    Ft. Worth, Texas
    Harold Taft was affectionately known as the world's greatest weatherman. He signed on with Channel 5 when the station signed on back in 1948. He was a fixture until his death in 1991.

Texas Best Monday Night Football Color Comentator

  • Dandy Don Meredith
    Mt. Vernon, Texas
    A thorn in the side of Howard Cosell and some of my best pro football memories.

Texas Best Ever Television Mini Series

  • Lonesome Dove
    Written By Larry McMurtry.
    Born Wichita Falls, Texas 6-3-1936 Awarded the Pulitzer for Fiction, 1986.

Texas Best Television Music Series

  • Austin City Limits
    Austin, Texas http://www.klru.org/ACL.html
    Austin City Limits is enjoyed by viewers in 300 markets around the country. Many stations broadcast the program, recorded in Dolby Stereo Surround, in stereo or with a radio simulcast to maximize the concert-quality sound of the performances. Austin City Limits is a production of KLRU/Austin, Texas and the Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council. It is distributed nationally to more than 300 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations.

Texas Best Movie Made in Texas, Hall of Fame

  • The Alamo
    Filmed in Brackettville, Texas in 1960, directed by John Wayne.
  • Giant
    Filmed in Marfa Texas in 1956
  • HUD
    Filmed in Claude, Texas in 1963
  • The Last Picture Show
    Filmed in Archer City, Texas in 1971.
  • Tender Mercies, 1981.
  • Terms Of Endearment, 1983

Texas Best Movie Made in Texas, 1996

  • Lone Star
    John Sayles
    Starring Kris Kristofferson

Texas Best Book, Texas Author

  • Lonesome Dove
    Written By Larry McMurtry.
    Born Wichita Falls, Texas 6-3-1936 Awarded the Pulitzer for Fiction, 1986.
  • Old Yeller, Fred Gipson, 1956
  • Texas, James A. Michener (Honorary Texan, NYC)
    Born 2-3-1907
    Mail: Texas Center for writers, Mail Code 55401, Austin, Texas 78713.

Texas Best Author, 1996

  • John Gray, PhD
    Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
  • Mary Karr
    Port Arthur, Texas The Liars' Club
  • John Graves
    Goodbye to a River
  • Larry King
    Putnam, Texas
    Born 1-1-1929
    Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1978.
  • John Erickson
    Midland, TexasHank the Cowdog USA Today says the best family entertainment in years. The most popular book in the librarys childrens section.
  • Robert James
    Bridges of Madison County

Texas Best Monthly Magazine