Bobby Rivers

Bobby Rivers was a Marquette graduate who co-hosted a morning show on the old 93QFM, then moved into television at WISN, both here in Milwaukee. 

 At WISN  he became Milwaukee's first African-American film critic, taping segments for the nationally syndicated PM Magazine. In time this would lead him to leave Milwaukee, later working with Whoopi Goldberg on her own show, and hosting shows of his own on the Food Network and VH1.

I met Mr Rivers very briefly at WISN when I toured the studio on a Scout field trip. As I recall it was nothing more than running into him in the hallway where he smiled, waved and said hello to the group. Still, by that time I already recognized him as someone of importance here in Milwaukee and someone with a future in the entertainment industry and so that meeting has stuck with me over the years.

Rivers died Boxing Day in Minnesota at the age of 70.

RIP