An Hour with Bob is a variety show, in a studio setting, hosted by Bob Venturini

Bob Venturini

Bob Venturini is a Rhode Island based Public-access television cable TV show host, presenting An Hour with Bob and Bob's Big Adventures. He has been a television personality since 1991. He works pro-bono for these public-access television cable TV programs; legally American cable access performers...

. The show airs in Rhode Island on Cox Communications

Cox Communications

Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...

 cable channel 13 and Verizon FiOS

Verizon FiOS

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 channel 32 on Thursdays at 11:00pm, Fridays at 10:00pm, and Saturdays at 1:00pm.

The subject matter varies greatly for Bob's interviews, as he highlights local businesses, people in the news, and often gives the stage over to new local talent. Shows are likely to include music, food, art, travel, movies, sports, astrology and wildlife. There are shows that introduce new products, interviews with local heroes, and segments on new developments in medicine.

An Hour with Bob is taped at a PBS Studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:...

 on a bi-weekly basis. Shows are recorded in realtime (live

Live television

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-to-tape format) which means that the show is recorded as if it were on live television, with no editing of the content in the show.

The studio control room is equipped with a chroma-key device for the bluescreen effect; digitally inserted backgrounds for the show include stationary video of the providence skyline, and a virtual studio set. The show is recorded and then sent to the statewide playback location for Cox, and on the air within three days.

Guests

Some of Bob's guests include...
Movies: Bobby Farrelly

Bobby Farrelly

Robert Leo "Bobby" Farrelly, Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Life and career:Farrelly was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, the son of Mariann, a nurse practitioner, and Robert Leo Farrelly, a doctor. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been...

 and Peter Farrelly

Peter Farrelly

Peter John Farrelly is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and novelist. The Farrelly Brothers are mostly famous for directing and producing gross-out humor romantic comedy films such as, Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself and Irene, There's Something About Mary and The Heartbreak...

, writer/director/producers of There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary is a 1998 American comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter. It stars Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller, and it is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film....

, Dumb and Dumber, Shallow Hal

Shallow Hal

Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, and Jason Alexander. It was directed by the Farrelly Brothers and filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Sterling and Princeton, Massachusetts at Wachusett Mountain.- Plot :Hal Larson is a...

;
Music: country singer Jerilyn Sawyer
Sports: NFL Star Doug Flutie

Doug Flutie

Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League...

; Former Red Sox player Sam Horn

Sam Horn

Samuel Lee Horn is a former baseball player who spent parts of 8 seasons in MLB and was an anchor for New England Sports Network, the flagship station of Boston sports teams.-Pro career:...

; six-time NASCAR Modified Champion

Whelen Modified Tour

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 Mike Stefanik

Mike Stefanik

Mike Stefanik is a NASCAR driver. He currently races in the Whelen Modified Tour, piloting the #16 Diversified Metals Pontiac. Stefanik was named the second greatest NASCAR Modified driver of all-time in 2003. His seven series championships are tied with Jerry Cook for second all-time, trailing...

;
Television: Helen Glover

Helen Glover

Helen Glover is an American talk radio host and former cast member on the reality television series Survivor: Thailand. Glover hosts the Helen Glover Show on TalkRadio 920 WHJJ, which was named by the Associated Press as the best talk show in 2005 among AP member stations in Rhode Island and...

 (third runner-up, Survivor: Thailand

Survivor: Thailand

Survivor: Thailand is the fifth season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed in the summer of 2002 and aired from September 19 – December 19, 2002 on CBS. It was set on the island of Ko Tarutao in Thailand. Fourteen episodes aired weekly. The two initial tribes were Chuay...

); Virtually all of the Rhode Island television/radio talent including former host of Early Today

Early Today

Early Today is an American morning news programme airing on the NBC television network. The program goes out live at 4:00am Eastern Time Zone for those few stations which start their local news at 4:30am, and is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delay loop until 10:00am ET, when Today...

 on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

, Kristine Johnson

Kristine Johnson

Kristine Johnson is a Filipino American co-anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City, New York, on the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Maurice DuBois....

; WPRI-TV

WPRI-TV

WPRI-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the state of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts that is licensed to Providence. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter on Homestead Avenue in Rehoboth, Massachusetts...

12 Anchors Karen Adams and Steve Aveson; NBC10/WJAR

WJAR

WJAR is the NBC-affiliated television station for the state of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts licensed to Providence. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 51 from a transmitter in Rehoboth, Massachusetts...

 Anchors Gene Valecenti, Frank Coletta, and Kelley McGee; ABC6/WLNE-TV

WLNE-TV

WLNE-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Rhode Island and the South Coast of Massachusetts. It is licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, but is headquartered in and operates from studios at 10 Orms Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It is one of two major Rhode Island...

 Anchor April O'Dell; ABC6 Chief Meteorologist Mark Searles; WPRO Radio Host Dan Yorke; and former WHJJ Radio Host Arlene Violet

Arlene Violet

Arlene Violet was a nun in the Sisters of Mercy religious order. She left the order to run successfully for Rhode Island Attorney General in 1984. This was the first time the position of Attorney General in any state had been held by a woman....

.
Other: Miss RI USA and Miss Teen RI USA; Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University, commonly abbreviated as RWU, is a private, coeducational American liberal arts university located on in Bristol, Rhode Island, above Mt. Hope Bay. Founded in 1956, it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams...

 President Roy Nirchel; Martin Yan

Martin Yan

Martin Yan is a Chinese-born American chef and the host of the award-winning cooking show Yan Can Cook.- Early years and education :With ancestral roots in Kaiping, Guangdong, China, Yan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, to a restaurateur father and a grocer mother, Yan began to cook at 12...

 of Yan Can Cook

Yan Can Cook

Yan Can Cook is a Chinese cuisine cooking show starring Martin Yan that featured recipes for stirfrys and other traditional Chinese meals. Martin had a catchphrase, "If Yan can cook, so can you!", with which he used to sign off each show...