Must-see TV

You may think of this as a call for prayers. Tomorrow morning, Team NCPR will be in the WPBS-TV studios, going mano-a-mano with the News 10 Now crew as we battle for glory on a taping of Whiz Quiz, hosted by Glenn Gough. Forget the Yanks and Phillies--this is the must-see match-up. On deck for the honor of public radio: station manager Ellen Rocco, station engineer Radio Bob Sauter, assistant news director David Sommerstein, and yours truly. Up for News 10 Now--well, who cares really?

I must say, I look forward with some trepidation. My last TV appearance was with Glenn's old colleague from his WWNY days, on Dan "Danny Bee" Burgess' Saturday morning cartoon show, 50 years ago. There's a reason we're in radio. While my boss Ellen is, of course, radiant and youthful, and David could be considered cute in an Eddie Munster kind of way, Radio Bob resembles the current Archbishop of Canterbury following a powerful psychotic episode, and I look like someone who may have a bomb in his shoe, or an appetite for "braaiinss." We'll just have to see. I'll be having fish for dinner--it's brain food.