So many younger viewers don't know the original story of Robinson Crusoe that NBC's reworking of the Daniel Defoe tale will seem more like a rip-off of "Pirates of the Caribbean" than messing with a classic. ...more

October 17, 2008

Links mentioned in Bob Hite's 8 Country special on News Channel 8: ...more

June 27, 2008

It has been a strange, sort of melancholy year, marked by eulogies for people I knew and farewells to people I know. ...more

December 18, 2007

TAMPA - Longtime News Channel 8 anchor Bob Hite will serve one year of probation and have his driver's license suspended for driving under the influence of alcohol in November. ...more

December 18, 2007

The winner of last week's trivia challenge says he has the world's greatest TV trivia question: ...more

December 13, 2007

Wishing viewers "God bless and smooth sailing," anchor Bob Hite signed off the 6 p.m. newscast Wednesday to end a 30-year-career at WFLA, Channel 8. ...more

November 29, 2007

TAMPA - Wishing viewers "God bless and smooth sailing," anchor Bob Hite signed off the 6 p.m. newscast Wednesday to end a 30-year-career at WFLA, Channel 8. ...more

November 28, 2007

Bob Hite's last day as an anchor at WFLA, Channel 8, is Wednesday. His Apollo Beach home has been sold. His wife, Bonnie, already is at their remote mountain home in Colorado. The nearest town is Durango in southwest Colorado. ...more

November 25, 2007

Like sands through an hourglass, so are the questions that trickle through the days of a TV critic's life. The spud stud is baffled because no one answered last week's trivia question. ...more

November 23, 2007

Longtime WFLA-TV anchor Bob Hite apologized during a news broadcast to viewers, family and friends for Wednesday's arrest on a charge of driving under the influence. ...more

November 22, 2007