Robert "Bob" Lape

Bob Lape is on the air today as he has been for a half century. Bob is an Emmy Award winner member of Who’s Who In America . He brought food to prime time television in America’s largest market on leading stations and kept it there continuously for 30 years.

 Bob served the “Today Show” as a food critic and  Entertainment Tonight as a media critic. “Bob Lape’s Dining Diary” is aired fifteen times weekly on W.C.B.S. Newsradio 88. His restaurant profiles are available around the clock in most New York City hotels via the Applevision service. A respected authority on American eating and drinking patterns, Bob has frequently criss-crossed the nation making guest appearances on TV and radio programs and judging cooking competitions.

  Bob graduated from Kent State University with a B.S. degree in Journalism and Radio Speech, and won a master’s assistant ship from Ohio University .

 He served as news director of broadcast stations in Akron (W.C.U.E.), Providence (W.I.C.E.), and Boston (W.B.Z.) before coming to New York .

 “The Eyewitness Gourmet”, his trail-blazing series for the ABC flagship station, was the most popular local television news feature in America for 12 years, spawning local news food exposure in many markets and presaging the Food TV Network.

 He currently anchors “The C.P.A. Report”, a monthly subscription video service. He is a member of Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Bob and his wife, Eve, reside in New Jersey .